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Data centre backup and recovery solutions

V eritas Technologies, a worldwide leader in enterprise data protection and software- defined storage, was recently again positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Centre Backup and Recovery Solutions. This marks the 14 th consecutive time that Veritas has been recognised as a Leader in the report [1] . Deepak Mohan, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Data Protection and Compliance at Veritas says, “Ninety-nine percent of the Fortune 100 trust Veritas to protect their data, simplify how they manage it, and ensure the continuity of their businesses through our data protection and availability solutions. Gartner has recognised us as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Data Centre Backup and Recovery Solutions for the 14 th time in a row. ConsideringVeritas protects more data across on premise, virtualised and cloud environments than any other data protection company, we believe the world’s leading enterprise companies can be confident we will continue to provide them with innovative availability, protection and insights solutions to ride the technology disruptions in today’s and tomorrow’s IT environments.” According to Gartner, “Leaders have the highest combined measures of Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. They have the most comprehensive and scalable product portfolios. They have a proven track record of established market presence and financial performance. For vision, they are perceived in the industry as thought leaders and have well-articulated plans for enhancing recovery capabilities, improving ease of deployment and administration, and increasing their scalability and product breadth. “A fundamental change is occurring in the backup and recovery market. For vendors to have long-term success, they must plan to address the legacy requirements of traditional backup and recovery, while looking to expand their integration with and exploitation of emerging applications, hypervisors, snapshot and replication technologies, and public cloud capabilities. A cornerstone for Leaders is the ability to articulate how new requirements will be addressed as part of their vision for recovery management. “As a group, Leaders can be expected to be considered part of most new-purchase proposals and to have high success rates in winning new business.This does not mean, however, that a large market share alone is a primary indicator of a Leader. Leaders are strategic vendors, well positioned for the future having established success in meeting the needs of upper-midsize and large data centres.”

According to the Gartner report, “Veritas NetBackup is a mature product that is proven in the most demanding environments. It is favoured by large organisations with a complex mix of legacy, traditional and modern workloads.” Key NetBackup™ innovations include: - Scalable data protection – proven scale in demanding environments with several customers deploying multiple petabytes and more than one thousand clients in a single environment. Scalable data protection gives organisations the confidence of recovering large environments in the face of ransomware, data loss or other threats to modern enterprises - Automated, multi-cloud integration – supports a broad range of operating systems, hypervisors and relational databases, providing organisations unified data protection regardless of where they are on their cloud journey - Extensive storage options – integrates with a wide range of storage arrays, object storage, public cloud targets and tape device vendors, ensuring seamless integration into heterogeneous environments. [1] Previous titles include Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances (2014-2015), Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software (2011-2013), Enterprise Backup and Restore Magic Quadrant (2001, 2003- 2005), Enterprise Backup Vendor Magic Quadrant (1999-2000). From 2005-2015, VeritasTechnologies was known as Symantec.

Veritas Technologies is a global leader in data protection and availability. Over 50 000 enterprises – including 99% of the Fortune 100 – rely on Veritas to abstract IT complexity and simplify data management. Veritas Enterprise Data Services Platform automates the protection and orchestrates the recovery of data everywhere it lives, ensures 24/7 availability of business-critical applications, and provides enterprises with the insights they need to comply with evolving data regulations. With a reputation for reliability at scale and a deployment model to fit any need, Veritas supports more than 500 data sources and over 150 storage targets, including 60 clouds. For more information on Veritas Technologies visit: www.veritas.com

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