

NetBackup is another well-used backup product that falls under the Symantec umbrella.

Customers appreciate the robust feature set of BackupExec and the relatively affordable acquisition cost to manage and deploy it in traditional computing environments." "It is generally aimed at small to medium enterprises where tape and disk-based backup strategies are fairly commonplace. "Symantec BackupExec works well for homogenous Windows server-centric environment," said Michael Lapetino, a CDW solution architect. Backup Exec can be used for Windows, Linux, Mac and various virtualization platforms and has integrated deduplication and archiving technology. Symantec offers two well known backup products. "By sheer virtue of their installed bases, you'd have to start with Symantec, IBM, EMC, CA Technologies, HP and CommVault," he said. I researched the differences between the products and here are my findings:ĭave Simpson, an analyst with 451 Group said you must include the big boys in any list of top backup applications.
