Veritas, Symantec’s information management business, announced new offerings for enterprise datacenters;and also significant upgrades to its core portfolio of backup and information management products.
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.”
Key product updates and new releases include:
Veritas NetBackupTM 7.7 adds new functionality and increased performance to support the largest, most dynamic enterprise environments. NetBackup 7.7 introduces enhanced datacenter integration for VMware vSphere 6 and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as support for hybrid-cloud deployments leveraging Amazon Web Services, Google Nearline and many more. Cloud performance has also been improved and is up to thirty times faster than previous versions.
Veritas InfoScale™ addresses enterprise business continuity needs for complex, multi-tiered applications in physical and virtual environments. InfoScale is available via a new, streamlined purchasing model. .
Veritas Resiliency Platform offers a unified, global approach for IT service continuity, helping to ensure critical data and applications remain accessible at all times across complex, multi-vendor physical and virtual environments.
Veritas™ Data Insight 5.0 will extend unstructured data analytics to support governance across on-premises storage platforms and Box cloud storage. By applying a user-centric lens to data forensics, Data Insight offers business users the ability to monitor anomalous user activity and behavior.
Veritas™ Information Map is the a cloud application built on the Information Fabric technology that will enable companies to gain better visibility into their unstructured data. Information Map will easily glean metadata from Veritas NetBackup™, store it in the cloud and present this data in a user-friendly, visual navigation tool that helps identify areas of risk, areas of value and areas of waste across a customer’s primary content repositories..
The press release also mentioned that an operational separation of Veritas and Symantec is currently scheduled for October 2015, with the complete separation on track by January 2016.