Symantec Corp has announced new solutions and technical integrations with VMware across its product portfolio to provide higher levels of protection for virtualized environments.
“Symantec product integration with VMware solutions provides organizations the benefit of advanced storage solutions for their Cloud infrastructure, managed in highly secure virtualized environments. In addition, easy backup and retrieval of data and accelerated virtualization represent the first steps of a gradual transition to a Cloud service delivery model,” said Anand Naik, Managing Director – Sales, for India and SAARC, Symantec.
NetBackup 7.6, scheduled to release later this year, plans to include NetBackup Accelerator now for VMware cloud infrastructure that provides up to 100 times faster backup while new NetBackup Instant Recovery for VMware cloud infrastructure will recover virtual machines 800 times faster. Planned new features for VMware vCloud Director and VMware vCenter Server will make management and automation even easier.
The Backup Exec 2012 V-Ray Edition gives virtualization architects industry-leading Backup Exec protection technology across mixed physical and VMware environments.
Enterprise Vault, which is VMware Ready certified, helps customers scale their physical and virtual environments by managing and migrating old and stale data into the archive and reclaiming primary storage capacity. Enterprise Vault can be virtualized and is optimized for VMware vSphere and VMware View.
Symantec Critical System Protection now supports VMware vSphere 5 with granular, policy-based controls to protect and monitor the hypervisor, guest virtual machines and VMware vCenter Server. The solution enables organizations to identify server compliance violations and suspicious activity in real-time, limit administrative control, restrict network communications and prevent file and configuration tampering of the virtual infrastructure, all as recommended in the VMware Hardening Guidelines. To reduce both compliance and security risk,Symantec Control Compliance Suite allows users to automate their compliance assessment and reporting processes, enabling them to identify risk and prioritize remediation activities across both physical and virtual infrastructure. Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM) and Symantec’s Managed Security Service (MSS) both leverage the VMware vShield log management collector to augment an organization’s ability to identify and respond to security threats that impact business critical applications across both their physical and virtual infrastructures.
Symantec also has an active beta program underway to finalize new features for Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 which includes VMware vShield Endpoint integration to deliver additional deployment options for improved performance. The upcoming release will offload critical security analysis from protected virtual machines to a dedicated security virtual appliance resulting in optimized scan performance, reduced resource utilization, and increased management visibility.
The new release of Symantec’s Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware cloud infrastructure integrates directly into VMware vCenter Server and adds support for VMware vSphere 5 and planned support for VMware vSphere 5.1. Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware 6.0 helps organizations improve SAN storage input/output (I/O) performance and availability for VMware vSphere. In addition, Dynamic Multi-Pathing provides deeper visibility into the underlying storage, enabling views from applications in virtual machines to storage spindle and gathering performance statistics.
Symantec is also announcing the beta version of its market leading Cluster Server solution targeting the VMware platform to provide organizations with reliable high availability and disaster recovery for applications running in virtual infrastructures. The new solution will provide automatic application failover between VMware virtual machines ensuring faster application recovery without compromising VMware advanced capabilities like VMware vMotion and Distributed Resource Scheduler. Symantec’s Cluster Server can be managed directly through VMware vCenter Server to simplify operations.