Then there's Backup Exec 12. This features more file-level granularity to the data recovery process; integration with a range of other Symantec products, including Enterprise Vault and ThreatCon; and an optional package called Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8, which supports ThreatCon and the Altiris Notification Server.
Pricing for Backup Exec 12 starts at $995 per server.
"This is a proof point for the Veritas/Symantec merger," says Brian Greene, senior product manager at Symantec. "We had to make sure everything was lined up."
Cynics would say three years is too long to do that. But at least one customer, Nicholas Joseph, network administrator at Orion Registrar Inc., a Denver-based group that registers environmental system compliance with worldwide standards, thinks Backup Exec 12 is a substantial improvement.
"Being able to install this right over the top of the previous version is a huge thing. In addition, the granular recovery protection for Exchange means we have no need to do full Exchange backups. We have increased our data transfer rate by one-third," Joseph says. He credits Symantec's latest improvements for better performance in his network of Dell PowerVault servers, where Backup Exec has been used for several years to protect 126 Gbytes of data from Exchange, SQL Server, and other apps.
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