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Symantec NetBackup Ends the Backup Window With 100 Times Faster Backups
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA-- - Symantec Corp. today announced the latest edition of Symantec NetBackup 7.5 to help enterprise organizations overcome their data protection challenges. The current approach to backup ...

Symantec Releases Backup Exec Dedicated to 100 Percent Virtual Environments and Expands Data Protection for Small ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA-- - Symantec Corp. today announced Backup Exec 2012 to help users eliminate complexity, perform backups in 100 percent virtualized environments and deliver instantaneous and cloud-based ...

Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec
Symantec on Monday unveiled new versions of its flagship NetBackup enterprise-class and Backup Exec midrange backup applications -- Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5. The Backup Exec 2012 version includes a new user interface that can automatically configure backups based on the most common policies and settings used by Symatec customers.

Online backup services keep your data safe
It's a fact of modern life that archiving data is essential to prevent a data disaster. Still, something like one-third of computers are never backed up, according to 2,257 respondents in a recent Backblaze poll carried out by Harris Interactive. The survey came to the dismal conclusion that a scant 7% of users practice safe computing by archiving their systems on a daily (or nightly) basis.

Symantec Declares Better Backup for All Sized Organizations and Calls for 80 Percent Reduction in Operating Costs
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA-- - Symantec Corp. today announced it will deliver a new approach for modernizing backup and recovery, a process that has become unnecessarily complicated and expensive as organizations' ...

Senate Democrats ready backup plan on payroll tax bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats have begun preparing a backup plan to extend a tax cut for workers if a special congressional negotiating committee fails to reach quick agreement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Friday. Reid's comments, in a conference call with reporters, were seen by some congressional aides as a signal to Republicans that he is prepared to play hard ball on ...

Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec software
Symantec announced new versions of its flagship backup applications for SMBs and the enterprise adding more support for virtual machines, a cloud storage offering and integration of snapshot and backup management

Symantec: 'NetBackup 7.5 speeds backup 100X'
Cuts 25-hour chore down to 15 minutes Symantec says backup is a multi-point product mess, with big data blowing backup-window timing out of the water, and so it has souped up both BackupExec and NetBackup to cover more backup and restore use cases. The sexy news – well, as sexy as backup news can be – is that the latest release of NetBackup is said to be 100 times faster, theoretically shrinking ...

Symantec Overhauls Data Backup With New SMB Offerings
The data security and backup firm aims to improve simplicity for SMBs by updating its portfolio with unified backup for both physical and virtual environments.

In depth: Online backup services keep your data safe
It's a fact of modern life that archiving data is essential to prevent a data disaster. Still, something like one-third of computers are never backed up, according to 2257 respondents in a recent Backblaze poll carried out by Harris Interactive. The survey came to the dismal conclusion that a scant 7 per cent of users practice safe computing by archiving their systems on a daily (or nightly ...