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How do you social? Thoughts from vmWorld Day 3
PackMatt73 | 31 Aug 2012 | 0 comments

I admit it.  I’m that guy.  I take pictures of great meals when they are really well presented or exotic or the bacon is spectacularly marbled.  It goes up on Facebook more for my benefit than anyone else’s, but…there it is.

Social media has taken a dramatic turn for “real” and “professional” use, so I was a bit surprised to witness some folks at vmWorld that still cling to that old trope of “I don’t use Twitter because I don’t care what you had for lunch.”  Granted, if that is the type of content that is consistently spewing from an account, I will unfollow them quickly.  But Twitter is fast becoming a very efficient way for businesses to directly communicate with their customers, partners or just interested followers. 

One of the great events at the conference this year was the Unofficial Official vmWorld Community Tweetup and #vFlipCup...

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Is Woz right? – What’s going on with your cloud?
PackMatt73 | 29 Aug 2012 | 0 comments

“I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years,” – Steve Wozniak

It is awfully cloudy at vmWorld 2012.  I had an interesting conversation with a partner we’ll refer to as CK.  Cloud storage was one of his top of mind thoughts for his customers.  For this particular partner, his three largest customers offer an intriguing mix of strategies for data storage

  • Large law firm
  • Hospital
  • Graphic arts college

Each presents different challenges regarding storage, archiving and compliance.  CK is not interested in putting any primary application data in the cloud, but wants to make sure that there is redundant data available for his clients.  He is not particularly interested in putting his clients’ information into Big Clouds like Amazon or AT&T, but with nearly a petabyte of data from just...

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Backup Exec 2012 Upgrade Update
SeanRegan | 21 Sep 2012 | 2 comments

Team Connect, 

On March 6, 2012, we released Backup Exec 2012. This release featured major changes to the user experience that we tested in a three-month beta with 2,300 SYMC partners and end-users. Most of our customers liked the new release because it addressed changes they had been asking for around disk and virtual machine controls for VMware backup and Hyper-V backup in the main parts of the UI.

However, others were not such big fans of the new UI, which isn’t all that uncommon. Change in the early days of a new design can be difficult. For example, when Microsoft changed the ribbon, or whenever Facebook makes a change to their UI, there tends to be a level of frustration at the onset before we all adjust. But if it is a good change, we eventually...

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New! Backup Exec Deduplication Assessment Tool
Bill Felt | 14 Dec 2012 | 16 comments

What is it?

The Backup Exec Deduplication Assessment Tool (BEDAT) is a utility designed to help partners demonstrate the value of Backup Exec and its deduplication technology to their customers. BEDAT scans user-selected data sets on one or more Windows-based systems in a customer’s network environment and estimates the deduplication savings that would be experienced if the same systems were protected using Backup Exec or the Backup Exec 3600 Appliance and deduplication. BEDAT returns global deduplication results, per resource deduplication results, and per data type deduplication results. BEDAT does not actually capture or transport any customer data during the assessment process; it only captures deduplication fingerprint information and transmits this data to be included in deduplication results.

New! Front-end...

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Backup Exec and Self Signed Certificates
BillB of the BE people | 17 May 2012 | 2 comments

I've seen some comments out on the Interwebs, particularly from Government users that certain security scanners such as eEye's Retina are flagging self-signed certificates in Backup Exec installations.   Note that while these certificates are used for SSL (actually TLS 1.0) by Backup Exec, these certificates are not exposing a vulnerability.  Here are some reasons why we feel this way. 

First, the flagged certificates are used as signing certificates by the private CAs residing on Backup Exec media server's to sign SSL/TLS certificates for use by the media server and clients so that an NDMP over TLS connection can be established between them.   As Backup Exec's protocol is a closed system, trust is defined by the administrator when they install BE on a computer.  It is assumed that because the administrator knows which computer they are installing the copy of BE they possess, they trust the...

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Backup Exec 2012 security improvements
BillB of the BE people | 05 Mar 2012 | 0 comments

Hello, my name is Bill Brown and I'm a software developer for the Backup Exec product team.  I've been working on Backup Exec (and its progenitor, Maynard Electronics Maynstream) for nearly 21 years.   Over the years I've spent time in just about every part of the product but lately I've been involved in improving the security of the product.  In upcoming posts I hope to give some technical insight into the inner workings of Backup Exec as well as give a peek into ideas for future enhancements.

I thought as an introduction, I'd discuss some of the usability improvements for session security in Backup Exec for Windows Systems 2012.  Last year, we introduced enhanced security between media servers and remote agents in Backup Exec 2010 R3.  I realize that it has caused some consternation among users because additional security seems to always introduce inconvenience.   In BE 2010 R3, we introduced the concept of a 'trust...

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Backup Exec, Your Partner in Virtualization
Rudy M | 02 Mar 2012 | 0 comments

I’ve been involved with Backup Exec for more than 10 years and it’s the partnership between the product and customers that makes it all worthwhile.  I’d like to offer you my personal perspective of how virtualization support has grown in Backup Exec over time and how new features are influenced by our customers.

Several years ago, it became clear that virtualization in the form of VMware and Hyper-V was fundamentally changing the way servers were deployed and managed.

During planning for Backup Exec 12.5, we believed that it was key to add support for protecting virtual machines. Given Backup Exec’s focus on Windows, we needed support for both VMware ESX 3.5 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.  Backup Exec offered protection and recovery for VMs on both platforms with the ability to restore files and folders without needing to recover an entire VM. We call this feature, “Granular Restore Technology” or GRT.  For VMware...

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Backup Exec Beta programs
James McKey | 09 Dec 2011 | 14 comments

UPDATE (12/9): The VMware plug-in and Cloud Services Beta/UAT programs have ended and are now in GA (General Availability). The Kaseya plug-in is in the First Availability (FA) cycle and you can sign up for that program here:
Backup Exec Management Plug-in for Kaseya - First Availability

 

There are a few Beta programs tied to the Backup Exec product line currently in play and that still have some openings (each link provides lots more detail in addition to providing the sign-up opportunity):

Backup Exec Management Plug-in for Vmware - Auto-recovery (URL removed) Beta (integration with ApplicationHA - High Availability product line)

Backup Exec Management Plug-in for Kaseya - Beta (URL removed) - Advanced Remote Monitoring & Management for Backup Exec 2010 R3 servers

Cloud Services for...

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Announcing the NEW Backup Exec 3600 Appliance
Kate Lewis | 30 Aug 2011 | 22 comments

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. Symantec backup appliances can be deployed in as little as 30 minutes and help organizations protect information completely, in physical or virtual environments, and deduplicate data everywhere to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Backup Exec 3600: Visibility and content-aware deduplication across physical and virtual systems

Equipped with Symantec V-Ray technology, Backup Exec 3600 appliance provides the same unique visibility into virtual environments as Backup Exec 2010 software to allow...

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Out Now: Backup Exec 2010 R3 V-Ray
Kate Lewis | 01 Sep 2011 | 0 comments

Today at VMworld® 2011, Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced new V-Ray technology enhancements to Backup Exec 2010 to provide organizations with greater visibility into their physical and virtual environment with a single backup solution, saving time and reducing overall complexity.  The latest version of Backup Exec 2010 will support VMware’s upcoming release of VMware vSphere® 5 and integrates with Symantec ApplicationHA to predict and trigger an application restore if ApplicationHA is unable to remediate an application failure.  This first-to-market integration helps IT administrators feel confident in expanding their VMware adoption knowing they can now eliminate costly downtime of mission critical applications within virtual environments.  Backup Exec’s V-Ray technology also includes the new virtual machine validator feature to allow administrators to...

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