Enterprise Data Protection

VERITAS Software, the leader in enterprise data protection solutions, offers advanced technologies and services for addressing the complete range of data protection requirements for all popular hardware platforms.

Industry leading software offerings, with easy to use end-user graphical interfaces, provide fast and efficient recovery from human error and application corruption.

Advanced add-on options for IT professionals automate backup operations, and extend backup with 'zero-downtime' and automated disaster recovery. Depending on what keeps you up at night, VERITAS has the solution.

Protect your business' most valuable data
Today's organisations depend on enterprise-wide applications used by everyone from employees and customers to suppliers and partners.

Applications as diverse as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and the Web channel 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 holds many risks to corporate information. Terrorism, power outages, floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters can devastate businesses. A 2001 study by the Gartner Group revealed that two out of five enterprises that experience a disaster go out of business within five years.

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.

Rapid, Continual Information Availability
Watertight data protection 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 - and the budget available to deliver it is shrinking.

The advent of the Internet and call centre means business no longer operates 9 to 5 - it's a non-stop, 24-hour operation.

This extension to the business day prohibits overnight backups. Hot backups are an alternative, but - as many IT professionals will testify - they are CPU-intensive and diminish data performance.

Incremental backups are a realistic alternative, but they often do not keep pace with the speed of backup required by many businesses.