Storage Foundation HA for Windows to provide business continuity through Windows Azure from Microsoft

SYDNEY, Australia. – June 12, 2012 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it will extend Symantec’s Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows and Veritas Volume replicator disaster recovery (DR) software solution to the Windows Azure cloud platform. Symantec’s solution will allow organisations of any size to recover business critical applications and their associated data in Windows Azure in the event of a local failure or site disaster. The solution will expand the ability of Symantec’s existing business continuity solutions for Microsoft Corp., providing on-premise-to-cloud disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS).

Fast and Cost Effective Disaster Recovery to Cloud

Organisations are increasingly demanding better protection and more recovery options, including leveraging the public cloud for disaster recovery protection. According to IDC’s 2011 Business Continuity Market Analysis, “Advancements in replication, clustering and server virtualisation software have opened the door to a more flexible approach to those architecting business continuity (BC) schemes. Given the increased need for business uptime and corporate reliance on information technology… the role of public clouds within the BC market will surely increase¹.” As organisations deal with downtime due to disasters, storage failures, network issues, maintenance or power outages, they need an off-premise solution that provides fast recovery to keep their applications and data available to users.

Flexible Protection for Business Critical Applications

Symantec’s DRaaS solution with Windows Azure will go beyond today’s more common backup to and recovery from the cloud offerings. Symantec’s award winning Storage Foundation High Availability and Veritas Volume Replicator high availability and disaster recovery technology will enable organisations to not just protect their data but protect their applications as well. With this solution, IT organisations will benefit by realising vastly improved recovery time and recovery point objectives for business critical applications in the event of an on-premise outage. Not only will the solution ensure real-time replication of critical application data, but it will also provide end-to-end recovery coordination from the data all the way up through the application. IT organisations can avoid having to manage a DR site themselves and benefit from the cloud services provided by Windows Azure.

Technology from Symantec’s market leading Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows and Veritas Volume Replicator products will form the basis for the solution. With this announcement, Symantec continues to expand its availability and disaster recovery interoperability with Microsoft solutions, which includes Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server Hyper-V, and now Windows Azure. More information on the new solution will be made available at a later date.

Supporting Quotes:

“In this economy, customers see cloud computing as a new option for flexible, cost-effective computing,” said Jean S. Bozman, Research Vice President, IDC. “Many organisations have been looking for a way to automate the recovery of production data — and to keep important applications running — in the event of an outage that has the potential to disrupt business for hours. Leveraging cloud computing as a Disaster Recovery (DR) target addresses business continuity needs for organisations that cannot afford a secondary site or at-a-distance failovers for mission-critical, virtualised workloads.”

“Windows Azure is designed to provide resilience and availability,” said Walid Abu-Hadba, corporate vice president, developer and platform evangelism at Microsoft. “Symantec’s service aims to extend the built-in reliability of Windows Azure and help customers recover on-premises applications and data with a disaster recovery and business continuity solution utilising complementary technology from both Symantec and Microsoft.”

“Windows Azure is growing rapidly as a platform, and we are seeing many of our customers utilizing it as part of a new delivery model for computing resources,” said Deepak Mohan, Senior Vice President, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec. “With Symantec’s proven high availability technology, and Microsoft’s cloud platform, organisations can rest assured that their business will keep running in cases of disasters and outages.”

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• SlideShare:      Symantec’s Microsoft Azure Cloud Disaster Recovery
• White      Paper: Cloud Availability
• 2011      Symantec Virtualisation and Evolution to the Cloud Survey
• Symantec      Virtualisation Solutions
• Symantec      Disaster Recovery Solutions
• Symantec      High Availability Solutions
• Symantec      Storage Management Solutions
• Windows Azure

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