{"id":18847,"date":"2012-02-09T20:35:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T10:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=18847"},"modified":"2012-02-09T20:35:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T10:35:17","slug":"symantec-declares-better-backup-for-all-sized-organisations-and-calls-for-80-percent-reduction-in-operating-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=18847","title":{"rendered":"Symantec Declares Better Backup for All Sized Organisations and Calls for 80 Percent Reduction in Operating Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

New survey data reveals that the current approach to backup modernisation is broken<\/em><\/p>\n

SYDNEY, Australia \u2013 9 February 2012 \u2013 <\/strong>Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it will deliver a new approach for modernising backup and recovery, a process that has become unnecessarily complicated and expensive as organisations\u2019 data stores grow exponentially. Compared to traditional backup, Symantec\u2019s approach enables 100 times faster backup, eases management and simplifies recovery if a disaster occurs, helping customers realise significant cost savings while better protecting their business information.\u00a0Over the last 20 years data has exploded, virtualisation has become widely adopted and service level agreements (SLAs) have become near impossible to meet. These challenges also affect the smaller businesses that struggle with backup complexity and are at risk of data loss due to a disaster. The current approach to modernisation introduces an ever-growing collection of point solutions resulting in added complexity, increased costs and headaches for backup administrators, network administrators and executives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe single most dramatic change is scale \u2013 or volume \u2013 of data, applications and virtual machines which cannot be processed by current backup environments. Organisations have increased service level agreements, rising expectations of availability and the need to run in a 24\/7 business model. When combined with trying to integrate new technologies, it adds up to a disruptive environment with a huge impact on IT teams. Organisations small and large need a holistic protection strategy, a single platform or solution, to handle the variety of data types and workloads as opposed to integrating a number of disparate point solutions, which proves to be costly and time consuming,\u201d said Dave Russell, vice president of Storage Technologies and Strategies, Gartner.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, Symantec unveils a radical new plan to modernise data protection that will drive out 80 percent of the operating costs associated with backup over the next five years,\u201d said Deepak Mohan, senior vice president of Symantec\u2019s Information Management Group. \u201cSymantec is announcing a new set of solutions that address the problems in backup \u2013 from the most complex of enterprise data centers requiring a true tiered-recovery strategy to the smallest business that needs the confidence that they can easily recover their data.\u201d<\/p>\n

Symantec recently surveyed more than 1,400 IT professionals worldwide on their backup practices and their ability to recover information in the event of a disaster. The findings reveal that traditional approaches to backup are broken and a new approach is vitally needed:<\/p>\n