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Why Roseville?

We started the NetBackup and Backup Exec launch sequence this week with the release of the Countdown to Better Backup Calendar. This was modeled after the idea of an Advent Calendar. Every few days we will open a new window to reveal a new feature of the launch calendar leading up to the product launch. As part of the launch effort each square on the calendar will open in a different city worldwide. This helps us reach our customers and partners in cities around the world and it gives us a chance to bring together all the people who have worked on the release.

Often in marketing it is hard to deliver technical information to the end customers. Everyone is busy, and there is so much noise online it is hard for product announcements to reach customers. One just needs to post a question on LinkedIn asking question about a technology to...

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Thanks again for attenteding the latest user group meeting. And a BIG thank you to Geico for hosting this event.

As a follow up several of you had plenty of questions around the NetBackup Appliances. Below are links to more resources about our appliance story and the different models/sizes we offer.

Product page:
http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=nbu-appliance

5000 series data sheet:
http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/fact_sheets/b-nbu_5000_DS_21198813.en-us.pdf

5200 series data sheet:
http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/fact_sheets/b-...

Lauren Whitehouse at ESG had an interesting blog post a couple of weeks ago about the battle between two vendors in the virtual backup space and their childish twittering about who ruled more. It got me thinking about the mad rush by all vendors to capitalize on the virtualization movement. Somehow in the race to rule VMworld someone forgot to inform the real world that there can't be 4 #1 vendors in the same space. Unpossible! 

So Lauren, thank you for bringing a reasoned voice to the conversation. It is Twitter wars like the one that triggered your blog that have created a need for organizations to investigate social media archiving, something we added to the new release of Enterprise Vault 10 and covered in a recent survey. Putting all of the good...