Symantec one of the leading backup appliance providers, announced the discontinuation of sales of its Backup Exec 3600 product from Jan 5th, 2015 while pledging to honor active maintenance contracts in place for its customers with updates and support till Jan 5,2020. This major development combined with the company’s earlier announcement to exit the Backup Exec cloud business in November 2013 points to challenging times for its Backup Exec line of products.
We believe that “Continuity is at the heart of conservatism”. Though Symantec suggested that they are making this decision to provide a better and enhanced product experience for enterprise customers, the small and medium sized customers who were relying on BE 3600 appliance for their backups are bound to be affected enormously.
So, for the benefit of those who are bracing the impact , we want to highlight our solution that is built to ensure their business continuity with a reliable and cost effective provision for uninterrupted services. Your backup appliances can be easily replaced with our Online Backup and DR product and further, by leveraging our Vembu cloud, you can also enjoy the twin benefits of optimal disk space utilization and lowered cost spent on server maintenance.
Vembu Online Backup lets you backup directly to our Vembu cloud, with uninterrupted backup schemes in place. You will no longer need to worry about power shortages and network interruptions since we provide ‘Where it Left Off’ feature to resume your interrupted backup jobs in a non intrusive manner. Also, we store your backups using the military grade protection offered by AES-256 encryption.
Vembu OnlineBackup supports:
* Disk Image Backup.
* VMware Backup.
* Hyper-V Backup.
* Exchange Backup.
* File Backup.
Support for Debian,Redhat and IMac is also made available for our customers. To learn more about the features and supported OSs of Vembu OnlineBackup please do visit the link below:
https://www.bdrsuite.com/products/vembu-onlinebackup/
Of course, while we are positioning Vembu OnlineBackup to replace the traditional backup model, we do realize there are customers who are still interested in hosting backup appliances similar to Symantec BE 3600. In order to achieve this, Vembu provides a virtual appliance (VMDK or VHD) that you can deploy it on-premise and replicate to our cloud. If you prefer to backup locally, you can choose to use our Vembu BDR product. For more details on our offerings that can rescue customers from Backup Exec, please contact vembu-sales@vembu.com
