Symantec Backup Exec Small Business Edition
Comprehensive Small Business Backup and Recovery

For the busy business, Symantec Backup Exec Small Business Edition replaces confusion with confidence, offering complete data protection set-up in less than 10 minutes through three simple steps. In one simple yet comprehensive package proven in millions of installations worldwide, you get a total solution for data backup, system restoration and disaster recovery.

Symantec Backup Exec 2012 has dramatically re-engineered its range of offerings and user interface to deliver even more comprehensive and reliable backup and recovery for any IT environment. The new, modern range of Backup Exec solutions are designed to adapt for any business. Organizations can easily protect increasing amounts of data, in either virtual or physical, environments with integrated VMware and Hyper-V protection, while reducing storage and management costs through integrated deduplication and archiving technology; reduce customer business downtime through integrated bare metal and dissimilar hardware recovery features and backup to virtual (B2V) and convert to virtual (P2V) capabilities, and ensure critical information on virtual or physical systems is always protected and can be restored in seconds.

Key Features

• Market-leading data and application protection for physical and virtual server environments
• A redesigned administration console eliminate complexity and reduce time managing backups
• Support for the latest virtual platforms, such as Hyper-V 2008 R2 and vSphere 5.0
  First-to-market granular recovery for virtual applications from a single-pass backup
• Block-level data deduplication reduces storage costs associated with backup processes
• Integrated bare metal and dissimilar hardware recovery make disaster recovery painless
• B2V and P2V features leverage virtual technology for migration and virtual fail over
• Backup Exec 3600 Appliance offers the reliability of Backup Exec software on optimized hardware These powerful capabilities in Backup Exec 2012 allow businesses to protect more customer data while reducing storage and management costs, optimize network utilization across physical and virtual environments, automate storage management savings with efficient archiving and backup, and enable all types of recovery for both virtual and physical resources, all through a single product and console.

New Backup Exec 2012 Small Business Edition User Interface
The new user interface has been designed with simplicity in mind. It conveys the information required more simply and concisely by providing users with just the things they need with reduced and consolidated options and choices. The aim was to create a user experience that is more intuitive so that anyone should be able to be productive within a short time.

The management of the data protection requirements has been changed to focus on the resources to be protected and the elimination of backup policies and complexity. Protecting systems by simply adding stages and showing relevant options will enable almost anyone to setup Backup Exec 2012 Small Business Edition.

Simplified Disaster Recovery
To help businesses prepare for and overcome the problem of server failure and downtime, Symantec has introduced Backup Exec 2012 with integrated bare metal recovery and dissimilar hardware recovery – also known as hardware discovery - capabilities. These new features make full server recovery easy, and offer it as a built-in element of Backup Exec 2012 data and application protection practices.

Now, using Backup Exec 2012, a single protection policy for servers can protect it against all types of disaster or failure, and enable all of the following types of recovery:

• Server Recovery
• Bare metal recovery
• Dissimilar hardware recovery
• Application Recovery (agent for Microsoft Applications and Databases included)
• Granular Application Recovery (agent for Microsoft Applications and Databases included)
• Granular File and Folder Recovery
• Granular object recovery
• Full Virtual Machine Recovery (Hyper-V only)

The core technology that enables the bare metal and dissimilar hardware restore capabilities within Backup Exec 2012 is called Simplified Disaster Recovery. This technology ensures that key system-level elements of a server are captured and stored as part of a backup operation. When a bare metal or dissimilar hardware restore operation is performed, this system-level information is used to rebuild the failed server and restore it to a functional state. Some of these critical system components include: System volume, Boot volume, Services volumes, and System state components.