MOUNTAIN VIEW, California,
July 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
New information management
and governance solutions designed to help customers
harness the power of information across
on-premises and cloud platforms
Veritas, Symantec's (Nasdaq: SYMC) information management
business, today announced new offerings for rapidly evolving
enterprise datacenters, as well as significant upgrades to its core
portfolio of backup and information management products.
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"Our customers find themselves at the crossroads of an
information explosion and a fundamental shift in the way
infrastructure is delivered," said Matt
Cain, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer for
Veritas. "To make sense of tremendous volumes of data, we know that
traditional infrastructure-centric approaches alone no longer work.
These new offerings will help our customers realize information
availability while gathering the insight critical to supporting
their business goals."
This set of product enhancements and new solutions showcases a
fundamentally different approach to delivering data and services
across multiple cloud environments. Enhancements to current
products enable simpler management in hybrid cloud infrastructures
and extended protection for VMware and Microsoft virtual
environments. Veritas is also introducing new products that enable
businesses to delve deep into their data stores to recognize and
prioritize information across their organizations.
Veritas brings together a unique combination of experience in
application availability and storage management on premises and in
the cloud. Veritas also offers management tools that help companies
find the estimated 1.5 percent of truly valuable data in their
organization to glean information, regardless of underlying
infrastructure models.
"There are several driving forces impacting a company's ability
to take advantage of its data today. Businesses and individuals are
creating more data than ever - and IT organizations are struggling
to manage the increasing scope and size of their data storage
needs," said Laura DuBois, Program
Vice President, Storage and GRC Infrastructure, IDC. "Veritas is
well positioned to help companies tap into their data to gain more
value, as well as ensure the availability and recovery necessary in
today's ever-changing business marketplace."
"The planned separation of Veritas from Symantec is an important
milestone for the industry. As many IT environments struggle to
achieve better data protection, data preservation, high
availability and storage management, Veritas's vision of
information availability and insights promises a full suite of
solutions and services that companies should look to from storage
infrastructure to insight. It will be extremely exciting to watch
Veritas build on its data protection and data management pedigree
with new storage insights and intelligence that align with
tomorrow's IT challenges," said Jason Buffington, Sr. Analyst on
Data Protection, Enterprise Strategy Group.
Key product updates and new releases include:
Veritas
NetBackup[TM]
7.7, the latest iteration of Symantec's industry-leading,
enterprise-grade backup solution adds new functionality and
increased performance to support the largest, most dynamic
enterprise environments. NetBackup 7.7 introduces enhanced
datacenter integration for VMware vSphere 6 and Microsoft Hyper-V,
as well as support for hybrid-cloud deployments leveraging Amazon
Web Services, Google Nearline and many more. Cloud performance has
also been improved and is up to thirty times faster than previous
versions. A single solution for the entire enterprise, NetBackup
7.7 empowers IT organizations to reduce complexity and outpace
relentless datacenter growth. Find more information here: NetBackup
7.7 press release.
Veritas InfoScale™ addresses enterprise business
continuity needs for complex, multi-tiered applications in physical
and virtual environments. InfoScale solutions provide application
availability and software-defined storage to meet datacenter
challenges such as operational complexity, tool proliferation,
unpredictable service levels and lack of agility through a single,
web-based management interface. InfoScale is available via a new,
streamlined purchasing model. For more information click here.
Veritas Resiliency Platform offers a unified, global
approach for IT service continuity, helping to ensure critical data
and applications remain accessible at all times across complex,
multi-vendor physical and virtual environments. Available now, the
Resiliency Platform helps customers ensure critical business
applications consistently meet stringent Service Level Agreements.
The solution brings visibility, simplicity and automation to
service continuity, restoring predictability across enterprise IT
business services. For more information click here.
Veritas™ Data Insight 5.0 will extend unstructured data
analytics to support governance across on-premises storage
platforms and Box cloud storage. Through enhanced access control
tracking and entitlements orchestration, Data Insight will help
ensure file share security. By applying a user-centric lens to data
forensics, Data Insight offers business users the ability to
monitor anomalous user activity and behavior. Coming later this
summer, Data Insight version 5.0 will continue to expand the
application of data analytics to facilitate retention management,
achieve access compliance, and gain a better understanding of how
user risk relates to data sensitivity. For more information click
here.
Veritas™ Information Map is the first cloud application
built on the Information Fabric technology that will enable
companies to gain better visibility into their unstructured data.
Information Map will easily glean metadata from Veritas NetBackup™,
store it in the cloud and present this data in a user-friendly,
visual navigation tool that helps identify areas of risk, areas of
value and areas of waste across a customer's primary content
repositories. Coming later this summer, the Information Map will
help businesses make decisions that reduce information risk and
optimize information storage. For more information click here.
An operational separation of Veritas and Symantec is currently
scheduled for October 2015, with the
complete separation on track by January
2016. For more details on each product and solution, please
visit: http://veritas.symantec.com/launch.
About Veritas Technologies Corporation
Veritas Technologies Corporation, the information management
company that will emerge from the separation from Symantec, will
enable organizations to harness the power of their information,
with solutions designed to serve the world's largest and most
complex heterogeneous environments. The Veritas business works with
86 percent of Fortune 500 companies today, improving data
availability and revealing insights to drive competitive advantage.
Veritas generated $2.6 billion in
revenue for Symantec in fiscal year 2015.
About Symantec
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) is an information protection
expert that helps people, businesses and governments seeking the
freedom to unlock the opportunities technology brings -- anytime,
anywhere. Founded in April 1982,
Symantec, a Fortune 500 company, operating one of the largest
global data-intelligence networks, has provided leading security,
backup and availability solutions for where vital information is
stored, accessed and shared. The company's more than 19,000
employees reside in more than 50 countries. Ninety-nine percent of
Fortune 500 companies are Symantec customers. In fiscal 2015, it
recorded revenues of $6.5 billion. To
learn more go to http://www.symantec.com or connect with Symantec
at: http://www.symantec.com/social/
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