CMT Partners With Symantec

Computer Media Technologies, Inc. (CMT) has enhanced its data protection and cloud computing offerings to include cloud backup DR solutions through a new partnership with Symantec Corporation.

The new cloud backup and recovery solution offers self-service cloud backup that leverages Symantec NetBackup 7.5 with AIR (auto image replication) and data protection optimization. The solution helps enterprises overcome data protection challenges and replicate backup data securely to a dedicated cloud instance of NetBackup while maintaining near-term data locally for restoration. This CMT service is managed using native NetBackup management tools.

“Customers will benefit from our alliance with Symantec allowing for just one service provider to manage all infrastructures in the cloud,” said Kurt Klein, CMT CEO. “Collaborating with Symantec allows CMT to provide customers with solutions that don’t demand multiple vendor relationships while streamlining the implementation process.”

CMT offers its customers control over their data and DR options. With the cloud backup and recovery solution service, it enables its customers the ability to restore from local or a cloud copy of their data to either its original source or a virtual private datacenter in the cloud.

“We are committed to helping customers and partners maintain overall security and availability, while effectively managing an influx of information,” said John Eldh, VP, Americas channel sales, Symantec. “CMT’s cloud backup and recovery offering is a solutions-driven approach that focuses on providing value and flexibility to keep up with ever-changing IT environments.”

As part of the DR offering, CMT monitors business environments – large and small – to ensure data is being backed up and replicated via NetBackup. Improved security encrypts data in transit and at rest, using keys that only the customer controls.

“Data growth is exponential and backup performance and recovery capabilities are incremental for enterprises,” said Klein. “In the past, an enterprise would need to open a costly DR center. But with our cloud backup and recovery solution customers will be using all the tools they are already accustomed to, with their existing license and pay for storage as it’s used.”

Organizations depend on NetBackup to reduce risk and increase efficiency in enterprise IT infrastructures, and to manage the complexity of data protection and recovery.