Harness, store and share your most precious commodity

Numerous applications support key business processes such as e-commerce and business intelligence, but they also create a mountain of information that must be successfully harnessed, securely stored and continually accessible. Organisations that fail to protect this data, or fail to have a comprehensive data protection plan, are under threat from short- and long-term data loss, with all the revenue, customer loyalty, share value, brand equity and market share implications it represents.

And those threats are real. Today's turbulent, networked world presents many risks to corporate information: security breaches, blended attacks, terrorist threats, floods, power outages, earthquakes and other natural disasters can devastate businesses. User and operator errors account for more than 32 percent of permanent data loss. Cyber-crime and computer virus attacks are the fastest-growing cause of business disruption. And although server and storage hardware continue to improve, IT infrastructures are growing more complex, adding new potential points of failure.

Organisations require rapid, secure and continual information availability and integrity. Watertight data protection, therefore, is a critical strategy for every organisation. But as organisations become more reliant on the rapid, continual availability of information, the means of achieving it become more complex. Non-stop, 24-hour operations require data protection solutions deliver robust, scalable storage management, backup, and recovery, from desktop to data centre, for heterogeneous environments from a single location taking the onus away from the end users streamlining, scaling, and automating backup throughout the organisation.

Symantec is the world's leader in enterprise backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Windows, Linux, and Netware and has the world's most powerful data protection solution for fast, reliable, enterprise-wide backup and recovery. Veritas NetBackup 6.0 PureDisk Remote Office Edition, enables enterprises to dramatically improve the reliability, security, and manageability of remote office data backup and recovery. NetBackup PureDisk software leverages advanced technologies in disk-to-disk backup, data reduction, encryption, replication, and centralised administration to directly address the most pressing challenges associated with remote office backup, including tape administration, lack of skilled IT personnel at remote offices, and the risks involved with transporting un-encrypted backup tapes offsite. Existing NetBackup customers can benefit from the new NetBackup PureDisk solution by standardising on a single backup and recovery platform for their data centre and remote offices.

Symantec offers data protection solutions that allow administrators to view and enable all backup and recovery operations from a single console, regardless of geographic location. Symantec solutions offers data protection for environments that span across multiple platforms, databases, applications, devices, and architectures as well as enabling the use of both disk and tape for backup and leverages a scalable 3-tier architecture and provides options for advanced disaster recovery, snapshot backup, encryption, and NAS protection. Disk Staging, data streaming, synthetic backup and Checkpoint/Restart, Multiplexed Backup, Inline Copy, Online NetBackup Catalog Backup all improve performance of operations as well as reducing backup footprints and ease restores. Its flexibility and advanced data protection across disk, tape, & storage networks, enables customers to tune for performance and or economy and makes NetBackup the best single, secure solution for the largest UNIX, Windows, Linux, and NetWare enterprise environments.