Veritas Delivering NetBackup 5200-Series Appliance

Veritas Technologies, LLC, announces the next-generation of its NetBackup 5200-series integrated appliances with data visibility.

Together NetBackup 5240 and Information Map are a solution to integrate data protection and data visibility map, addressing enterprise challenges managing unclassified, dark data. NetBackup 5240 is the latest in the family of company’s appliances seeing growth in the last six years.

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As organizations struggle to balance the exponential increase in data growth, delivering protection with integrated visibility is critical to reducing risk and bottom-line costs. Only with integrated data visibility can ‘target rich’ and risky information be identified in the 41% of data that on average goes untouched for three or more years.

A free trial of Information Map with NetBackup 5240 allows businesses to quickly identify opportunities to optimize information storage and reduce information risk in as little as 24 hours. Previous versions of NetBackup 5200-series appliances are also compatible with Information Map, ensuring that all existing customers can benefit from the product, which provides an immersive visual experience to gain insight into an organization’s unstructured information.

The NetBackup 5240 appliance provides a wealth of new capabilities for modern data protection across virtual, cloud and physical environments including:

• Scalability with data growth – expandable capacity to 201TB, 36% greater capacity and 100% greater density per rack unit than the previous generation, drastically reducing CAPEX.

• Optimized backup performance – 30 to 50% increase ⁽¹⁾ delivering shorter RPO and RTO.

• High energy efficiency – Energy Star compliance providing a greener footprint.

• Flexible deployment options – choose to deploy as a master server, media server or a combination of the two.

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“Data growth continues unabated, driven by digitalization of business. And it continues to fragment as organizations diversify their infrastructure across cloud, virtual and physical environments, increasing protection and visibility challenges,” said Scott Anderson, SVP, information protection solutions, Veritas. “Data protection of course remains of paramount importance but is not sufficient by itself in these increasingly complex IT environments. That’s why we’re innovating and delivering a most forward thinking backup solution to our customers – the first step to incorporate integrated data protection with visibility.”

To empower company’s channel partners, the firm is also announcing a promotional program to encourage mutual customers to refresh their existing data protection infrastructure with the NetBackup 5240 appliance.

⁽¹⁾  30% greater backup performance than NetBackup 5230, and 50% greater backup performance than NetBackup 5220