Veritas, Symantec’s information management business, announced new offerings for rapidly evolving enterprise datacentres, as well as significant upgrades to its core portfolio of backup and information management products.
“Data is increasingly viewed as a valued asset, or even a product itself. With it being stored at higher rates than ever, the volume of data is also expected to double every two years,” said Chris Lin, Sales Leader of Asia Pacific & Japan Region, Veritas. “To help companies make sense of their tremendous volumes of data, our new offerings will allow our customers to realize information availability while gathering the insight critical to supporting their business goals.”
Enhancements to current products enable simpler management in hybrid cloud infrastructures and extended protection for VMware and Microsoft virtual environments. Veritas is also introducing new products that enable businesses to delve deep into their data stores to recognize and prioritize information across their organisations. Veritas also offers management tools that help companies find the estimated 1.5 percent of truly valuable data in their organisation to glean information, regardless of underlying infrastructure models.
“There are several driving forces impacting a company’s ability to take advantage of its data today. Businesses and individuals are creating more data than ever – and IT organisations are struggling to manage the increasing scope and size of their data storage needs,” said Laura DuBois, Program Vice President, Storage and GRC Infrastructure, IDC. “Veritas is well positioned to help companies tap into their data to gain more value, as well as ensure the availability and recovery necessary in today’s ever-changing business marketplace.”
“The planned separation of Veritas from Symantec is an important milestone for the industry. As many IT environments struggle to achieve better data protection, data preservation, high availability and storage management, Veritas’s vision of information availability and insights promises a full suite of solutions and services that companies should look to from storage infrastructure to insight. It will be extremely exciting to watch Veritas build on its data protection and data management pedigree with new storage insights and intelligence that align with tomorrow’s IT challenges,” said Jason Buffington, Sr. Analyst on Data Protection, Enterprise Strategy Group.
Key product updates and new releases include Veritas NetBackupTM 7.7, Veritas InfoScale, Veritas Resiliency Platform, Veritas Data Insight 5.0 and Veritas Information Map. An operational separation of Veritas and Symantec is currently scheduled for October 2015, with the complete separation on track by January 2016.
