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Veritas Cluster Server High Availability
Downtime tolerance for most organizations is at a minimum and for many, implementing preventative measures
is the only way to ensure business continuity. Veritas Cluster Server is a high availability solution that protects
physical and virtual machines, providing automated failover to local or remote physical or virtual machines and
ensuring continued access to their applications. Supporting Windows, Linux, UNIX, and VMware environments,
Veritas Cluster Server offers a Web-based central console for monitoring, managing, and reporting.
Administrators can also test disaster recovery scenarios without affecting primary systems or applications.
Symantec Stands Apart
Symantec stands apart, not only for the depth and breadth of solutions in its portfolio, but also for its many
unique and innovative features. With a “save money, save time” mantra, Symantec has introduced and evolved
its products and features with administrative efficiency and optimization in mind. The aforementioned single
source preference of many organizations and the associated benefits, coupled with features that drive down
TCO,
distinguish Symantec’s data management portfolio from competing solutions.
Data- and System-Level Protection
Symantec provides users with a comprehensive recovery portfolio
—one that includes both system protection and
a range of data protection options. System-level recovery goes beyond bare metal recovery (which the company
also provides) by capturing system state information
—saving organizations valuable reinstallation and
configuration time —and supporting dissimilar hardware as target recovery systems.
SaaS- and Cloud-Based Repositories
Symantec doesn’t take a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to data protection. The company offers a
variety of methods to capture copies of data for backup, and supports an abundance of options for storing those
copies. As enabling technologies hav
e become available and the cost of bandwidth has decreased, it’s become
more feasible to exploit Web-resident services and cloud-based storage for tasks such as backup. Symantec
initially launched its SaaS platform with two solutions: an online backup service and a cloud-based storage option
for backups performed with on-premise software, creating new options for customers. The possibilities for
exploiting Symantec’s SaaS platform and cloud storage to deliver and support any of its perpetually-licensed on-
premise solutions are endless.
Sub-File-Level Data Deduplication
Relentless data growth is stressing IT environments at every level. Reducing the capacity of data copied,
transferred, and stored just makes sense. Symantec offers different features and solutions for optimizing storage
capacities (incremental and differential backup strategies, archiving and compression, to name a few). However,
one of the more innovative and impactful technologies is data deduplication. As previously mentioned, data
deduplication identifies and eliminates redundancy, creating efficiencies in the capacity of data transferred and
stored. What is compelling about Symantec’s deduplication is that it segments files into small chunks, identifies
the unique changed segments, and only transfers and stores the unique data. Sub-file-level deduplication within
and across data sources can generate significant savings.
Multi-Vendor Business-Level Reporting
IT is charged to manage more with less, meet SLAs, maintain compliance, maximize TCO, and drive operational
improvements
—on top of any other daily tasks. IT organizations have realized the value of visibility into the
various components of their data protection ecosystem and processes. Reporting tools —especially those with a
cross-domain view —are invaluable for administrators. Symantec recognized the importance of not only
monitoring and reporting on the success/failure and speeds and feeds of operations, but also of the business-