Symantec System Recovery 2011 delivers fast and reliable system recovery to help you minimize downtime and meet recovery time objectives with confidence. Quickly restore Windows desktops/laptops in minutes, even to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual environments. With more than 787,000 protected systems, Symantec System Recovery is one of the most proven, trusted, and reliable system recovery solutions.

Key Features

• Restore Windows desktops/laptops from local or off-site destinations in minutes, even to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual environments.
• Backup to almost any disk storage device including USB, FireWire, NAS, SAN and Blu-ray.
• Perform seamless, automated physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to physical (V2P) conversions.
• Capture and protect the entire system, including the OS, applications, all files, device drivers, etc. in one easy-to-manage recovery point with image-based technology.
• Schedule backups to run automatically, including event triggered backups, without disrupting user productivity.
• Built-in AES software encryption of backups ensures the security of critical business data.

Key Benefits

• Dramatically minimize downtime and avoid disruption and employee productivity losses.
• Replace time-consuming, manual and error-prone desktop/laptop recovery processes with fast, reliable, automated system recovery.
• Recover what you need, when and where you need it, including individual files, folders or complete systems in minutes.
• Eliminate the need to have duplicate hardware on standby for recovery purposes and save on hardware costs.
• Easily perform hardware refreshes and migrations.
• Centrally manage backup and recovery tasks for multiple desktops/laptops across your entire organization (via Symantec System Recovery Management Solution). Users can also manage Symantec System Recovery through the user friendly interface that needs little to no user training.

New Features

Updated support for the latest Microsoft Windows, Linux, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer operating systems and applications With Symantec System Recovery 2011, we continue to build on our proven track record of comprehensive system protection for the latest Windows, Linux, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer operating systems and applications including:

• SharePoint 2010
• Exchange 2010 SP1
• SQL 2008 R2
• VMware vSphere 4.1
• VMware ESX 3.5 update 5
• Citrix XenServer 5.6
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3, 11 and 11 SP1
• Red Hat Linux 5.4, 5.5 and 6.0
  
  

Granular Recovery support for SharePoint 2010
Recover Microsoft SharePoint 2010 server documents in seconds from a single system recovery point.

Enhanced Symantec System Recovery Management Solution
The Symantec System Recovery Management Solution is a highly scalable centralized management solution designed to centrally manage up to 2,500 Symantec System Recovery clients from a single management server. It can be installed to and hosted on a Windows 2008 R2 64-bit server.

Enhanced customizable recovery disk wizard
Additional flexibility has been added to the customizable recovery disk wizard with the option to select an .ISO image as the source for a custom recovery disk.

All-in-one backup and recovery USB device
With new wizard functionality, you can easily transform a USB device into a bootable Symantec System Recovery Disk device to help reduce boot time and speed up the recovery process. Adding this boot functionality gives you the ability to create an all-in-one backup and recovery device that contains the backup and can act as a bootable recovery media for restore operations.

System Requirements

Windows 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems:

Windows Vista Ultimate
Windows Vista Business
Windows Vista Enterprise
Windows XP Professional/Home (SP2 or later)
Windows XP Media Center
Windows 7 Ultimate
Windows 7 Enterprise
Windows 7 Professional

Processor

233 MHz or greater, as required by the operating system

RAM

Memory requirements per key components:
Symantec System Recovery Agent: 512 MB
Symantec System Recovery user interface and Recovery Point Browser: 512 MB
Symantec System Recovery Disk: 1 GB minimum (dedicated)
Symantec System Recovery LightsOut Restore feature: 1 GB