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Why Heathrow and What is P2V and B2V for Backup Exec 2012?
SeanRegan | 12 Jan 2012 | 0 comments

 

I’m excited to have a guest Blogger Rudy McNeese and the Heathrow, Florida office join the Countdown to Better Backup. Today we opened the launch countdown window for Instant Disaster Recovery with P2V and B2V. 

With this capability Backup Exec 2012 will expand add two new key capabilities, physical to virtual conversions, known as P2V, as well as the ability to backup to virtual format, known as B2V.

The P2V process utilizes parallel data streams to store backup data from a protected server to a Backup Exec 2012 server while simultaneously sending the same backup data, in the form of a virtual machine, to a virtual host in the environment for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.

The result of a P2V operation is a fully recoverable backup set as well as a fully functional virtual machine that can be used for permanent virtual conversion operations as well as warm failover, disaster recovery scenarios.

The B2V...

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Why Roseville is the 1st City on the Backup Countdown Calendar?
SeanRegan | 09 Jan 2012 | 0 comments

 

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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We'd love to learn more about how you found the Education information you were looking for!
Stephanie Guaman | 03 Nov 2011 | 0 comments

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-Stephanie on behalf of the Symantec Education team

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Everyone is #1 in VM Backup!
SeanRegan | 01 Sep 2011 | 0 comments

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...

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Free T-Shirts and Technical Stuff
Barnaby_Wood | 02 Aug 2011 | 0 comments
As I've struggled my way through this last week on jet lag, limited sleep and caffeine at Symantec's Worldwide Sales and Marketing Conference, two things have struck me. The first is that Backup Exec has a special place in a lot of peoples' hearts. Its roots can be traced back around 30 years and there is a very real passion - among the sales force and pre-sales groups in Symantec, within the channel partner community and among our customers too. We brought themed "Backup Exec Boot Camp" t-shirts and hats to the conference as prizes and throughout the week more and more employees and partners were wearing them - through their own choice. Supporters if you like, but certainly a very loyal following that’s prepared to shout about it from the rooftops. If you want to get one for yourself, look out for the regional Boot Camps we're going to be running around EMEA in the coming weeks and months. Travelling around EMEA, I meet partners who...
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Backup Exec Usability Sessions – Backup Exec 2012 Upgrade
Elizabeth Teffner | 25 Jul 2011 | 5 comments

The Backup Exec Usability Team is interested in your feedback!

We are currently recruiting current Backup Exec customers for remote usability sessions to gather user feedback on a upgrading to a new version of Backup Exec. We are looking to for customers who currently are using Backup Exec and will be upgrading to newer versions of Backup Exec. So basically any current Backup Exec user!

These sessions will be conducted via WebEx and only take 1 hour of your time.

If you are interested in participating in this usability study, please click here to view available session times. The sessions are offered at various times from August 1st– August 5th.

This is your opportunity to help shape the future of Backup Exec.

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Cloud Pilots? Anyone can drive a car, pilots fly planes. Clouds?
SeanRegan | 21 Jun 2011 | 4 comments

I noticed an interesting tweet today from Rachel Dines @Forester. It quoted Carl Meadows @SungardAS. 

 

"Common misconception: cloud solves our sys admin problems. Wrong! Cloud requires more skilled sys admins." 

I have been thinking about this a lot lately as I drive down 101 to Mountain View from SF.  Each day someone gets in a fender bender and traffic continues around them. Sure, life is disrupted but it's par for the course. Sometimes car accidents happen. As I drive south I also pass under SFO. Each day 100s of planes take off. The expectation is that these planes will almost never have an accident. They are piloted by highly trained pilot while the car on 101 is piloted by someone like you and me. 

Cars are like servers.  Planes are like Clouds. 

  • When a plane crashes the media shows up at the scene, the bloggers speculate....
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Symwise - The New Knowledge Management Platform
Swathi Turlapaty | 21 Sep 2010 | 29 comments

The Symantec Support site has been successfully migrated to a new knowledge management and search solution called the "SYMWISE" featuring InQuira's technology this past weekend. Hence, we would want to open up this discussion wherein our users can provide their valuable feedback/comments.

So your time starts now!

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Symantec and CDW Tech Nights
Elspeth Magoria | 31 Aug 2010 | 1 comment
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Enjoy great food and beverages and network with your peers. Be there for a chance to win great prizes - a 32 GB iPad or the grand prize Tech Night Tailgate Package! Space is limited so register today for an event near you.

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Backup and Archiving Newsletters
Swathi Turlapaty | 05 May 2010 | 0 comments

The first edition of the Backup and Archiivng community newsletter was delivered  today (May 5, 2005). Currently, the newsletter is sceduled to be delivered once every month. The content covers the highlights from every corner of the community and helps to keep track of the important discussions happening here.

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