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Symantec System Recovery Delivers Flexible Recovery of Physical and Virtual Systems
April 2011 by Marc Jacob
Symantec Corp. announced its strategy to
provide organizations of all sizes with a tailored approach to solve their data, system and application recovery
challenges to better meet stringent recovery time objectives and keep their business up and running. As part of its
broader downtime remediation strategy, Symantec is also delivering new recovery updates and platform support to
Symantec System Recovery 2011, formerly Backup Exec System Recovery, for both physical and virtual
environments.
Symantec’s downtime remediation strategy includes an optimal mix of solutions to solve customers’ recovery
challenges:
? Symantec System Recovery provides complete system recovery in minutes, even to dissimilar hardware,
bare metal, remote locations or virtual environments, to minimize business downtime
? Symantec Backup Exec eliminates backup windows and helps customers meet recovery point objectives
through granular recovery of physical and virtual environments
? Symantec ApplicationHA enables automated monitoring and recovery for virtual applications running in
VMware
Symantec research indicates that disasters can have a significant impact on a business and organizations of all sizes
are vulnerable to downtime. Symantec’s 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey found that the majority of small
businesses surveyed are still unprepared to deal with a disaster and 54 percent of SMB customer respondents
reported they have switched SMB vendors due to unreliable computing systems. Similarly, Symantec’s 2010
Disaster Recovery Survey, which surveyed enterprise organizations, found that the time required to recover from an
outage is twice as long as respondents perceive it to be.
Available now, Symantec System Recovery 2011 adds the following new features:
? All-in-one backup and recovery USB device: With new wizard functionality, customers can easily
transform a USB device into a bootable Symantec System Recovery Disk and into a backup storage device,
creating an all-in-one backup and recovery USB device to help reduce boot time and speed up the recovery
process.
? Enhanced centralized management: Symantec System Recovery Management Solution is a highly
scalable solution designed to centrally manage large numbers of clients from a single management server.
The Symantec System Recovery Management solution can now be installed to and hosted on Windows
Server 2008 R2 64-bit environments.
? Enhanced customizable recovery disk wizard: Additional flexibility has been added to the customizable
recovery disk wizard with the option to select an ISO image as the source for a custom recovery disk. This
is especially helpful for larger enterprise organizations that already utilize a customized version of the
Symantec System Recovery Disk and would like to use it as the source for future modifications to their
recovery environment.
? Platform support: Symantec System Recovery includes updated support for the latest Microsoft
Windows, Linux, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer operating systems and applications
