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Wed, April 8, 2009
Tue, April 7, 2009 Symantec: Symantec Transforms Data Center Operations With Comprehensive Solution for HA/DR Preparedness
CUPERTINO, CA--(Marketwire - April 7, 2009) - Symantec Corp. (
Disaster Recovery Advisor delivers value quickly with a comprehensive assessment available within two days of installation. This is made possible by an agentless architecture and zero configuration of its knowledgebase with more than 3000 risk signatures. Disaster Recovery Advisor provides a comprehensive assessment through in-depth visibility into the application, server and storage environment across all leading storage, server and software solutions.
Proactive Risk Identification Ensures Successful HA/DR
An August 2008 survey from Symantec found that more than 30 percent of [ disaster recovery ] tests fail as organizations remain susceptible to unknown configuration changes or "configuration drift." Successful disaster recovery requires end-to-end monitoring and reporting of application, server and storage configurations, and a flexible way to test HA/DR. With Disaster Recovery Advisor, Symantec is delivering a comprehensive solution to proactively identify hidden configuration risks which jeopardize the success of the businesses' recovery.
"Our customers continually face the challenge of simplifying operations and cutting costs while ensuring the full recovery of their business in the event of a failure," said Yogesh Agrawal, vice president of Symantec's CommandCentral Product Group. "In large scale data centers, proactively identifying configuration risks without disrupting the business is so difficult that most organizations don't do it. With Disaster Recovery Advisor, IT organizations can automatically detect thousands of such issues, understand the risk to their applications, servers, and storage and take action while efficiently leveraging existing IT resources."
Two days to value with extensive knowledgebase and agentless capabilities
Disaster Recovery Advisor has the industry's most extensive knowledgebase of thousands of vulnerabilities and critical issues -- nearly anything that may prevent a data center from recovering from an outage. This extensive knowledgebase enables customers to identify availability risks in their environment within two days of installation. Installation of Disaster Recovery Advisor is quick and seamless, as the solution is agentless and requires zero configuration.
The knowledgebase is continuously and automatically updated, to ensure that HA/DR plans will be successful and IT organizations will be protected from the latest HA/DR issues as they are identified. For any identified risks, Disaster Recovery Advisor automates the remediation process by providing resolution guides that help fix the problem before performing much needed DR tests, saving time and other resources.
"Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor will help organizations to quickly identify potential configuration issues," said Bob Laliberte, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Because the Disaster Recovery Advisor knowledgebase contains thousands of items and continually updates itself, customers won't have to suffer from the latest issues that other data centers experience -- it's almost like an automated antivirus solution for data center DR environments."
Comprehensive Support Enables Recovery and Cost Savings
As part of a successful HA/DR testing plan, Disaster Recovery Advisor supports the heterogeneous data center -- server, storage and databases. It also supports the leading clustering and storage management solutions. Disaster Recovery Advisor supports all major operating systems as well as the major storage arrays and databases, allowing data center managers to have confidence that they can utilize it in any data center environment.
Disaster Recovery Advisor is the latest offering in Symantec's storage and availability management portfolio and further delivers on Symantec's goal to transform data center operations by increasing productivity, proactively identifying risks, and lowering costs. In an effort to help customers more efficiently secure and manage their information, Symantec recently announced [ Veritas Operations Services ], an online services platform to identify hidden risks and drive productivity and availability.
Pricing and Availability
CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor is generally available with pricing starting at $3,000 based on the number of physical servers that are being monitored. Symantec is also offering a free risk assessment to help evaluate customers' HA/DR preparedness.
Facts
- According to [ research conducted by Symantec in 2008 ]:
- 30 percent of organizations have to execute a disaster recovery plan each year, yet only 47 percent say they could have 100 percent normal operations within one week.
- 30 percent of disaster recovery tests fail and 32 percent of organizations report that testing will impact their customers, and one-fifth (21 percent) admit such testing could impact their organization's sales and revenue.
- 43 percent of organizations report that they feel exposed to configuration change management issues.
RESOURCES:
MULTIMEDIA:
- [ Webcast ]
- [ Screen captures ]
ADDITIONAL PRODUCT INFO:
- [ CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor ]
- [ CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor Data Sheet ]
- [ White paper ]
- [ Symantec's Storage and Availability Management Group Backgrounder ]
- [ Veritas CommandCentral Storage ]
- [ Veritas CommandCentral Storage Change Manager ]
- [ Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter ]
- [ Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows High Availability ]
- [ Veritas Cluster Server ]
- [ Testing your Disaster Recovery Solution ]
About Symantec
Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at [ www.symantec.com ].
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Any forward-looking indication of plans for products is preliminary and all future release dates are tentative and are subject to change. Any future release of the product or planned modifications to product capability, functionality or feature are subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments by Symantec and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
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