Symantec extends protection to Altiris environments
ConvergenceAsia staff
19/10/2007

Symantec has announced that it will offer new integration with Altiris technology to provide customers with Windows backup and recovery capabilities of Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0.

By using Backup Exec System Recovery Integration Component for Altiris, the integrated solution will help Altiris administrators meet recovery time objectives by recovering complete Windows systems, including systems in unattended remote locations, in minutes.

In the six months since the close of the Altiris acquisition, Symantec has integrated Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0 with Altiris Notification Server, enabling IT administrators to work from a single, familiar management console. As a result, customers will be able to perform an immediate backup of a single system or create backup policies to protect all their servers, desktops and laptops as a part of their overall system management workflow process. When needed, the administrator will then recover individual files and folders as well as entire systems to nearly any device, including virtual systems and dissimilar hardware platforms.

The Backup Exec System Recovery Integration Component for Altiris also provides comprehensive reporting, status, backup job and overall system protection information in the Altiris configuration management database (CMDB). This enables the administrator to utilise Backup Exec System Recovery’s key features directly from within the Altiris console and assign policies to any designated collection of systems.

The new integration also provides Altiris management customers with a unique ability to convert physical systems to virtual (P2V) and virtual back to physical (V2P) and perform granular recovery for Microsoft Exchange, and end-user file recovery capabilities via Google Desktop or Backup Exec Retrieve.

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