Symantec simplifies backup and recovery with new appliance

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) will showcase the NetBackup 5220 enterprise backup appliance, to help organizations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia modernize their backup infrastructures and accelerate new initiatives around virtualization with greater reliability.This Symantec backup appliance can be deployed in as little as 30 minutes and help Saudi organizations protect information completely, in physical or virtual environments, and deduplicate data everywhere to improve efficiency and reduce costs.“With the new NetBackup Appliance the emphasis is on ease of deployment, scalability, flexibility, and the ability to bridge existing infrastructure and processes,” said Amer Chebaro, Sales Manager – Datacenter Appliances, Symantec, Middle East & North Africa.“These features make this appliance a viable option for customers looking to improve their backup and data protection environments, while providing customers the ability to safeguard their physical and virtual server environments with one appliance-based solution.” Symantec NetBackup 5220 is the industry’s first scalable backup appliance for enterprise organizations with both client and target deduplication designed to accelerate backups for physical and virtual systems.Based on NetBackup 7.1, the appliance includes Symantec’s content-aware deduplication which can reduce backup volume and network utilization by as much as 99 percent, eliminating backup window problems and enabling cost effective replication of data to other sites for business continuity.NetBackup also has plans to support VMware vSphere 5 in the next release due out later this year.