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VMworld and Symantec have announced key technology developments designed to help customers more effectively deploy, protect and manage their essential applications and databases running in virtual environments. Symantec’s integrated solutions for security, high availability, endpoint management, storage management and backup and recovery enable customers of all sizes to benefit from virtualisation, trusting that their business-critical applications are secure, available and recoverable in spite of the high demand placed upon them.
“Today, server virtualisation rates of 50 percent or more are increasingly common in well-run data centers. But a variety of service level challenges have kept most organisations from realising the full benefits of virtualisation for the applications that power their businesses. From data protection to storage management, high availability and disaster recovery to endpoint virtualisation, Symantec software helps customers protect and manage their physical and virtual information and infrastructure, enabling them confidently virtualise even their most business-critical applications,” said John Magee, Vice President, Product Marketing, Symantec.
“VMware and Symantec have built a strong partnership, and it’s exciting to see the results of our collaboration, including improved management of virtual environments and increased levels of security and availability. Our joint customers look to us to help solve real-world problems through innovation, and we continue to work together to help customers progress on their journey to IT as a Service,” said Parag Patel, Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware.
High Availability
Based on Veritas Cluster Server technology, Symantec ApplicationHA integrates with VMware vCenter Server and VMware High Availability to ensure high availability for applications running in virtual machines. Symantec ApplicationHA complements VMware HA with application health monitoring and control.
Storage Management
At VMworld 2010 Symantec is also unveiling Symantec VirtualStore, a new solution designed to minimise storage costs in VMware environments. Based on Veritas Storage Foundation technology, VirtualStore is a software-based NAS solution that scales servers and storage independently, efficiently provisions virtual machines, and delivers advanced storage optimisation capabilities for VMware environments.
Backup and Recovery
Symantec NetBackup 7 provides streamlined protection across both physical and virtual environments, helping organisations reduce complexity, maximise operational efficiency, centralise administration and simplify recovery. NetBackup 7 natively integrates with the VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection, supports VMware vSphere 4.1, and delivers flexible, built-in virtual machine-optimised deduplication. Data deduplication can also be applied to VMware client backups to further reduce and consolidate storage resources.
Security
Symantec Critical System Protection provides real-time hardening and intrusion monitoring while maintaining high performance and availability. It protects the VMware vSphere host and guest instances with layered controls. The Symantec Protection Center centralises security management, to manage, update and monitor security policies and configurations across both physical and virtual environments. Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 is optimised for VMware vSphere and is certified as a VMware Ready Virtual Appliance, enabling customers to scale their messaging security infrastructure while taking advantage of the resource utilisation benefits of virtualisation.
Endpoint Virtualisation and Management
Symantec’s endpoint management solutions seamlessly manage VMware environments and maintain the stability of tier-one applications. Altiris Server Management Suite 7.0 from Symantec provides the essential capabilities to discover, provision, manage and monitor server infrastructures across a range of physical and virtual platforms, allowing IT administrators to increase the availability of applications and automate manual efforts to ensure a consistent, reliable and supportable IT environment.
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