Zetta.net Offering Migration for Symantec Backup Exec.Cloud

Zetta.net announced a migration offer for businesses affected by Symantec Corp.’s shutdown of Backup Exec.Cloud.

According to Symantec, service providers will no longer be able to sell Backup Exec.Cloud subscription licenses or renewals for Backup Exec.cloud as of January 6, 2014. Existing customers will be able to utilize the product until the end of service availability on January 6, 2015 or the end of their current term (whichever comes first). After January 6, 2015, customers and partners will not have access to the service, data or technical support.

The offer by Zetta.net enables Symantec Backup Exec.Cloud customers to apply the unused balance of their service – up to 6 months – to Zetta’s enterprise-grade cloud backup & DR service – free of charge – in addition to a 20% discount on an annual cloud backup contract.

“Symantec Backup Exec and Backup Exec.Cloud customers have endured one jarring surprise after another,” said Zetta.net VP marketing Gary Sevounts. “First Backup Exec 2012 was released to universally negative reviews, then patches were released that didn’t provide support for mainstream platforms like Windows Server 2012, and now the cloud backup component is being shut down. Stability is a fundamental pillar of enterprise backup, and it is critical for backup vendors to give business customers confidence their critical backup data will be available for recovery.”

Zetta’s patent pending cloud backup technology is focused on performance, and enables customers to protect data sets from 1TB to 100TB, and backup and recover up to 5TB in 24 hours directly to or from the cloud. All customer data is encrypted, in transit across the internet and at rest in the data center, using 256-bit SSL and Salsa20 encryption. Zetta’s enterprise-grade cloud backup and DR service is HIPAA and ITAR compliant, SSAE-16 audited, and delivers 99.99996% backup reliability and 100% recovery reliability. 24×7 US-based, engineer-level technical support is included, enabling Zetta customers to enjoy overall backup costs that are up to 50% lower than Symantec Backup Exec.

Zetta is seeing 247% Y/Y growth, a 99% retention rate, and currently has 650+ enterprise customers and MSPs.

It extends an offer to existing Backup Exec and Backup Exec.Cloud customers to bring enterprise-grade cloud backup performance and security along with a user interface that’s simple to deploy and manage from anywhere. Data can be recovered 4 ways: from the cloud through a mapped network drive, the ZettaMirror software agent, or a web browser – with recovery from local storage an option for non-disaster recoveries. There is no appliance hardware to buy.

Current Symantec customers interested in migrating data from Backup Exec and Backup Exec.Cloud products to Zetta.net’s DataProtect solution should submit a request for contact or custom pricing to the company.