Item: Veritas NetBackup Appliance
Rating: 8
Author: Naveen Kumar R

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Symantec Net backup Appliance is used for storing backup data, and for backup and recovery of data for various clients. We use it across the whole organization.

Pros and Cons

Symantec a market leader in Data Protection
De-duplication is a huge adjacent market
Symantec has >8yrs experience in this technology
Customers are re-architecting their BU designs
Tape market is being replaced with disk backup market
New delivery / implementation preference is emerging
Sell a more powerful s/w & h/w combined solution
Provide an end to end solution from one vendor

Dedicated appliance strategy team at corporate level
Provide our customers choice of form factor
A more efficient method for customers to deploy s/w

Return on Investment

Single vendor – one support call
Appliance & related S/W integrated into BCS Contract
Further enhanced with partner services

Alternatives Considered

EMC AppSync

Deployment with reduced effort, time and risk
Streamlined upgrade & patching process
Enhanced backup, reduced downtime, improved reliability

Likelihood to Recommend

Seamless integration with NetBackup

Backup server, storage & de-duplication from one vendor

Scalable flexibility

Deploy across all environments - DC, VMs, remote office

Users and Roles

10 - NetBackup Engineer, Catalog Migration ,

Support Headcount Required

10 - NetBackup Certification (STS) , Symantec Certified Specialist

Business Processes Supported

Customers are re-architecting their BU designs
Tape market is being replaced with disk backup market
New delivery / implementation preference is emerging

Innovative Uses

Sell a more powerful s/w & h/w combined solution
Provide an end to end solution from one vendor
Will form the foundation of an appliance ecosystem

Future Planned Uses

Quick & easy to deploy Master/Media Servers
Single Vendor Support for NBU Infrastructure
Hardware specifically tuned for NBU
Appliance provides multiple additional levels of self-healing and data resilience built into the software engine, including, but not limited to:
Metadata database crash consistency
User tunable parameter health checker configuration validation utility
Transactional consistency & redundancy
Appliances creates multiple inline copies of the transaction queues, with transaction log replay in the event of system interruption
Ongoing data integrity checks
Multi-node consistency checks and self-check verification

Likelihood to Renew

using Netbackup Appliance makes my work simple for Backup and Recovery .

No - no we didi't Symantec NetBackup Appliance as following made us retain:
E-mail address configurable
Alert email sent when fault conditions arise
Default notification for e-mail alerts is 15 minutes and configurable
Separate email alerts for hardware and software events

Key Differentiators

Product Features
Product Usability
Product Reputation
Prior Experience with the Product
Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor

Product Usability: Symantec NetBackup Appliance Is a simple n important Backup and Recovery tool which Provides end to end Solutions for Various Clients
Configurable through Web GUI & CLISH
Can display/dump MIB to import into management platform

Evaluation Lessons Learned

Extend the life of existing infrastructure
NetBackup Traditional licensing
Enterprise Server – 1 x Windows, Linux & Sol x64 Tier 2 license per NetBackup 5220
Data Protection Optimization Option -- relevant FETB
NetBackup Capacity (aka “Platform”) or xSP Licensing
Data Protection Optimization Add-on -- relevant FETB

Symantec a market leader in Data Protection

Overall Satisfaction with Symantec NetBackup Appliance