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level reports that aid in planning. Veritas Backup Reporter went beyond the scope of its own data protection
portfolio to report on non-Symantec backup applications, addressing those organizations with a mix of backup
solutions in their environment.
Granular Recovery Technology
Symantec offers a unique technology that minimizes secondary storage requirements and saves administrators
valuable time during a recovery: its Granular Recovery Technology. The backup application performs a single-
pass backup of data
—in Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, VMware, or Microsoft Hyper-V environments—
while still maintaining the ability to recover individual objects such as:
Files or folders from image-level backups of virtual machines
Individual items in Exchange, such as entire databases, public folders, individual mailboxes, or individual
objects within mailboxes (e-mail, task, attachment, calendar item, etc.)
Individual items in Active Directory (without requiring an authoritative or non-authoratative full restore),
including individual objects or attributes
Individual items in SharePoint, including documents, lists, sites, sub-sites, and content databases
The on-disk representation of data and fast, random access for recovery enables Symantec to meet the most
stringent backup window and RTO objectives.
OpenStorage Technology
Many organizations have adopted disk-based backup architectures to improve the speed and reliability of backup
and recovery. These implementations may include standard disk arrays, virtual tape libraries, or target disk
systems with data deduplication features. For many environments, adopting an all-disk strategy is not always
practical; tape creation is still necessary or even mandatory to meet cost points as well as to fulfill regulatory and
disaster recovery requirements. To aid in this process, Symantec developed its OpenStorage Technology API
that lets intelligent disk storage appliance vendors (virtual tape library and disk targets with deduplication and
replication) interact with NetBackup media servers to provide visibility into the duplicate copies made and stored
by the appliance. NetBackup media servers maintain knowledge and control over copies and migrations, but
allow intelligent disk to drive the tape infrastructure, creating efficiency in time and the amount of data that
traverses the network.
Summary
Information systems and electronic data are the lifeblood of organizations of all sizes today. Therefore,
maintaining access to systems and data via protection and management solutions is crucial to
a company’s
success. IT organizations, faced with infrastructure complexity on multiple levels, compliance requirements, and
“do more with less” mandates driving them to automate, simplify, and optimize data protection environments are
challenged to find a solution that meets their size, budget, and recovery objective requirements.
Best-of-breed solutions that can address high-standards AND introduce simplicity and ease-of-purchase, -use,
and -management are well positioned.
Symantec’s portfolio of data protection and archiving solutions satisfies
not only the data management feature and technology requirements of IT organizations, but also provides an
added level of assurance via single-source vendor efficiencies. Symantec
—the company, as well as its product
portfolio —has a number of characteristics that make it stand out from competing solutions and deliver significant
value.
Symantec’s end-to-end data management offerings allow organizations to evolve from simple backup and
recovery to data management of large, complex, and distributed environments. Adopting additional Symantec
portfolio products can extend and enhance existing investments. Standardizing on a single vendor for data
protection is cited as desirable and beneficial by end-users.