Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers N180428 Data Sheet

Product codes
N180428
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Data Sheet: Backup and Recovery
Symantec Backup Exec™ 11d for Windows® Servers
The Gold Standard in Windows Data Recovery
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Key benefits
• Trusted and reliable
• Eliminates backup windows
• Enables faster backups 
• Recovers individual files, Exchange messages/mailboxes,
and SharePoint documents in seconds 
• Enables end user file retrieval—without IT intervention
• Complete disk- and tape-based data protection
• Reduces operational cost in Microsoft Windows
environments
• Increases Windows application availability
• Offers simple, scalable, centralized management
• Provides certified compatibility across Microsoft Windows
2000 and Windows Server™ 2003 environments
Introduction
Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers is the
industry-leading Microsoft® Windows data protection and
recovery solution designed for disk and tape, providing
comprehensive, cost-effective, and certified backup and
recovery—now including continuous data protection for
Microsoft Exchange, file servers, and desktop and laptop
workstations. Symantec Backup Exec 11d revolutionizes data
protection by eliminating backup windows and recovering
data in seconds. Enhancing data security with encryption
and protecting both 32-bit and 64-bit systems, Backup Exec
is the perfect fit for today’s Windows based businesses. 
Centralized administration provides scalable management
of distributed backup and remote servers. An intuitive
interface and wizards simplify data protection and recovery
procedures for any level user and any size network. With a 
complete family of high-performance agents and options to
protect Windows, Linux®, and UNIX® server data, as well as
desktops and laptops, Symantec Backup Exec is the gold
standard in Windows data recovery.
Meeting the needs of today’s business and IT administrators,
Symantec Backup Exec 11d is an easy-to-use data recovery
solution that is cost-effective and simple enough for the
novice user to install and administer, yet flexible enough 
to protect large Windows environments, departmental
workgroups, and remote offices. It can protect a single
server or multiple servers, a storage area network (SAN), 
or scale into large enterprises. It helps Windows based
businesses back up more data with less hardware, in less
time, with fewer resources—and is easy to manage centrally.
Complete protection: Just add data
Symantec Backup Exec 11d offers a comprehensive data
protection and recovery solution in one product suite, and
removes the complexity of dealing with backing up and
recovering your company’s most valuable asset—its data.
Whether that data resides on a Windows file server; on a
desktop or laptop; or on an Exchange, SQL, SharePoint®, or
other application server, Backup Exec 11d has the capability
and compatibility to offer full protection and recovery. 
Designed to meet the growing needs of today’s businesses,
Symantec Backup Exec 11d delivers complete disk-to-disk-
to-tape data protection and recovery for Windows environments.
The Backup Exec solution provides traditional tape-based data
protection, as well as disk-based data protection, eliminating
backup windows altogether, speeding data recovery, and
enabling end users to recover their own files—without IT