As Symantec's first shot at reporting, Veritas Backup Reporter is no more sophisticated than the third-party tools. Still, Symantec has the one basic part of the equation the others lack -- a huge installed customer base. Symantec NetBackup product manager Erica Antony argues the reporting tools work best when incorporated into the core backup application.
"The No. 1 differentiator is, we're Symantec," Antony says. "We have a history with data protection that no other vendor has. We can introduce features and integrate reporting into Net Backup and Backup Exec."
Veritas Backup Reporter supports CommVault Galaxy, EMC Legato NetWorker, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backup software. But those options involve extra licenses, and Veritas reports go deeper when used with Net Backup and Backup Exec.
While Symantec's entry into backup reporting can't be good news for the smaller competitors, some of them have broadened their capabilities to include various degrees of analytics. For example, they can predict if bandwidth problems will affect backups, or if there is not enough capacity on the backup medium to complete a backup.
"This levels the playing field on the reporting side, but not on the analytics side yet," Taneja says of Symantec's product. "The easiest thing to do is the reporting. That's what all the DPM products started with. It's the next step beyond reporting where you have to do a serious amount of data gathering and apply analytical engines to extract intelligent information."
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