Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 for Windows Servers

Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 for Windows® Servers is the gold standard in Windows data protection for physical and virtual systems, providing comprehensive disk and tape backup and recovery support for Windows-based environments, including the latest Windows Server 2008 portfolio. Continuous data protection reduces the backup window for file servers, workstations, Microsoft Exchange, and SQL servers, ensuring companies can meet strict recovery point objectives.

With Backup Exec, businesses can efficiently meet strict recovery time objectives for physical and virtual servers while reducing storage costs and management resources. Backup Exec 12.5 provides granular data recovery for critical Windows applications in seconds. Individual Exchange emails, SharePoint site items or documents and Active Directory user profiles are easily restored from a single backup with patent-pending Granular Recovery Technology.  VMware and Microsoft virtual files and server images are also easily restored from a single backup, delivering comprehensive physical and virtual server data protection through one console.

Backup Exec 12.5 also provides innovative cross-platform integration with other market-leading Symantec solutions to help to ensure businesses can efficiently secure, backup, and archive critical data while building on existing or new Symantec investments.  Extended platform protection provides complete data protection for heterogeneous servers including UNIX, Linux, MAC, and NetWare, with new remote media server support for Linux servers and expanded protection for NDMP enabled NAS devices for enhanced storage flexibility.  New license discovery and patch management features help users deploy and manage an up-to-date data backup strategy from a single console.  From new integration benefits to enhanced management and platform scalability, Backup Exec 12.5 is designed to readily optimize any Windows data protection strategy.