Kate Lewis's blog

Over the last 12 months it's hard to miss all the messages from vendors that promise to modernize your backup infrastructure. I particularly like the messages from vendors that champion solutions that address one or two aspects of backup - such as deduplication, snapshots or tools for backing up just VMware and Hyper-V environments. These are quick fixes, not modern data protection.

Have you ever experienced a complete system failure and then realized that you don’t have the correct hardware to be able to recover the failed system to? Or have you ever experienced a system failure and found yourself scrambling to get that system up and running when time was of the essence?

Backup Exec Focus Group 

We are looking for backup professionals to participate in an upcoming online focus group conducted by Symantec. 

When:
5th October 2011

10.15am – 11.00am PST and 3.15pm-4.00pm PST

Who:

Symantec is looking for customers that would like to be recognized at VMworld in Copenhagen on 18-20th October 2011. Have you recently implemented or worked on a virtualization and server consolidation, virtualization for disaster recovery, remote-office/home-office deployment, private cloud or desktop virtualization project?

Today at VMworld® 2011,Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced the general availability of the Backup Exec 3600 enterprise backup appliances to help organizations modernize their backup infrastructures and accelerate new initiatives around virtualization with greater reliability.

Today at VMworld® 2011, Symantec Corp.

Don’t miss out on your chance to be a #VMrockstar with Symantec. Enter to win a pair of VIP tickets to Linkin Park on Tuesday 30th August at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas in celebration of #VMworld. And that’s not all, the VIP tickets come with VIP treatment. This once in a lifetime VIP experience includes:

Do you attend, in person, any Backup and Recovery events throughout the year? Or do you prefer to attend virtual events (online) so that you don’t have to travel? Or maybe you don’t attend any events due to the associated cost but have one or more events you would like to go to if cost wasn’t a factor in attending?

Symantec wants to hear from you!  Were you a part of the decision making team to purchase one or more Symantec products, such as Backup Exec and Symantec System Recovery? Or, where you a part of the decision making team to vote against purchasing a Symantec product? If so, we’d like to hear why.

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