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Storage Foundation HA for Windows to provide business continuity through Windows Azure from Microsoft<\/em><\/p>\n

SYDNEY, Australia. \u2013 June 12, 2012<\/strong> \u2013 Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it will extend Symantec\u2019s Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows and Veritas Volume replicator disaster recovery (DR) software solution to the Windows Azure cloud platform. Symantec\u2019s solution will allow organisations of any size to recover business critical applications and their associated data in Windows Azure in the event of a local failure or site disaster. The solution will expand the ability of Symantec\u2019s existing business continuity solutions for Microsoft Corp., providing on-premise-to-cloud disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS).<\/p>\n

Fast and Cost Effective Disaster Recovery to Cloud
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\nOrganisations are increasingly demanding better protection and more recovery options, including leveraging the public cloud for disaster recovery protection. According to IDC\u2019s 2011 Business Continuity Market Analysis, \u201cAdvancements in replication, clustering and server virtualisation software have opened the door to a more flexible approach to those architecting business continuity (BC) schemes. Given the increased need for business uptime and corporate reliance on information technology\u2026 the role of public clouds within the BC market will surely increase1<\/sup>.\u201d As organisations deal with downtime due to disasters, storage failures, network issues, maintenance or power outages, they need an off-premise solution that provides fast recovery to keep their applications and data available to users.<\/p>\n

Flexible Protection for Business Critical Applications
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\nSymantec\u2019s DRaaS solution with Windows Azure will go beyond today\u2019s more common backup to and recovery from the cloud offerings. Symantec\u2019s award winning Storage Foundation High Availability and Veritas Volume Replicator high availability and disaster recovery technology will enable organisations to not just protect their data but protect their applications as well. With this solution, IT organisations will benefit by realising vastly improved recovery time and recovery point objectives for business critical applications in the event of an on-premise outage. Not only will the solution ensure real-time replication of critical application data, but it will also provide end-to-end recovery coordination from the data all the way up through the application. IT organisations can avoid having to manage a DR site themselves and benefit from the cloud services provided by Windows Azure.<\/p>\n

Technology from Symantec\u2019s market leading Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows and Veritas Volume Replicator products will form the basis for the solution. With this announcement, Symantec continues to expand its availability and disaster recovery interoperability with Microsoft solutions, which includes Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server Hyper-V, and now Windows Azure. More information on the new solution will be made available at a later date.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cIn this economy, customers see cloud computing as a new option for flexible, cost-effective computing,\u201d said Jean S. Bozman, Research Vice President, IDC. \u201cMany organisations have been looking for a way to automate the recovery of production data — and to keep important applications running — in the event of an outage that has the potential to disrupt business for hours. Leveraging cloud computing as a Disaster Recovery (DR) target addresses business continuity needs for organisations that cannot afford a secondary site or at-a-distance failovers for mission-critical, virtualised workloads.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWindows Azure is designed to provide resilience and availability,\u201d said Walid Abu-Hadba, corporate vice president, developer and platform evangelism at Microsoft. \u201cSymantec\u2019s service aims to extend the built-in reliability of Windows Azure and help customers recover on-premises applications and data with a disaster recovery and business continuity solution utilising complementary technology from both Symantec and Microsoft.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWindows Azure is growing rapidly as a platform, and we are seeing many of our customers utilizing it as part of a new delivery model for computing resources,\u201d said Deepak Mohan, Senior Vice President, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec. \u201cWith Symantec\u2019s proven high availability technology, and Microsoft\u2019s cloud platform, organisations can rest assured that their business will keep running in cases of disasters and outages.\u201d<\/p>\n

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