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Symantec Adds Reporting: Page 2 of 3

Empowering IT to Verify Backup Service Level Compliance

IT administrators are forced to comply with not only internal Service Level Agreements (SLAs), but also, with external government regulations. Backup Reporter puts backup administrators in the driver's seat and allows them to be proactive about managing compliance with governing policies. It provides them with the ability to "prove" that critical data is backed up and business-critical clients and applications are recoverable within their established corporate or industry backup and retention policies.

Backup Reporter also eliminates the time consuming manual process of creating ad-hoc reporting spreadsheets. Reports can be scheduled and distributed via email, thereby automating a process that can otherwise be prone to error.

"Today's enterprises face a growing number of challenges in trying to comply with regulatory requirements and management requests, particularly when it comes to trying to achieve a single, centralized view of their backup and recovery operations across multiple, disparate backup applications and ensuring that they have a standardized and repeatable reporting process in place," said Laura Dubois, research director, IDC. "Backup Reporter is a timely solution to this growing need that helps take the guess work out of trying to comply with regulatory and management requirements."

Symantec Corp.