Symantec Corporation announced updates to its backup and archiving software solutions to support Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and other Microsoft applications. Symantec's information management solutions help extend Exchange 2010 by further protecting customers' information, reducing storage and server costs and quickly recovering information for business, legal and regulatory compliance purposes. Symantec's Enterprise Vault archiving solution adds direct drag-and-drop access to the archive from Outlook, so users no longer have to rely on 'shortcut' links from their mailbox. This is now available for previous versions of Exchange and is scheduled to be available for Exchange 2010 in early 2010. Available now, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 provides fast, reliable system backup and restore for Microsoft Exchange 2010. Over the next several months, Symantec is scheduled to deliver updated versions of NetBackup, Backup Exec and Enterprise Vault to reduce storage by deduplicating information stored in Microsoft Exchange 2010, as well as other applications such as Microsoft SharePoint and Windows Server 2008 R2. Symantec Enterprise Vault unifies deduplication, tiered storage, policy enforcement and e-discovery of information across multiple applications, such as Exchange, SharePoint, file servers and instant messaging. Available now, Enterprise Vault 8.0 with virtual vault eases the end user experience for organizations archiving Microsoft Exchange by combining access to live, legacy and archived emails in Microsoft Outlook without any visible change to the appearance of the message or stub files. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 provides small businesses with full system backup and recovery of the latest Microsoft platforms, including Microsoft Exchange 2010, Windows 7 and Microsoft Server 2008 R2. Additionally, Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 and the next versions of NetBackup and Backup Exec are scheduled to provide granular recovery of Exchange 2010 email messages, files, mailboxes, and public and private folders from single-pass database backups.

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Symantec Corporation announced the availability of Backup Exec System Recovery 2010, a complete data and system backup and recovery solution for small businesses. Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 automates the backup process of an entire system or individual files and folders without disrupting user productivity, and enables quick restores to the same or dissimilar hardware, virtual machines or remote locations. Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 introduces new support of the latest Microsoft operating systems, including Windows 7, Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, easing the transition to the new platforms and ensuring continued protection during migration. With the new release, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery will also support Linux operating systems later this year. Backup Exec System Recovery provides small businesses with a single, easy-to-use solution for backup and recovery. Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 now includes Symantec's patent-pending Granular Recovery Option, previously optional. This capability allows small businesses to back up an entire file server, desktop, laptop, virtual server or critical application server, such as Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft SharePoint, and then restore granular items such as individual Exchange emails, SharePoint documents or individual files in minutes. Backups can be saved to a variety of disk storage devices and can be copied to an off-site location or secondary disk device for disaster recovery purposes. In addition, Backup Exec System Recovery adds new support for the latest virtual environments, including VMware vSphere 4.0, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, and Citrix XenServer 5.x. This new support ensures that the more technical small businesses that integrate virtualization into their IT environments can convert physical systems to virtual machines through Backup Exec System Recovery for disaster recovery or testing purposes. Organizations can easily manage their backup environment at local and remote locations from a single, centralized console with Backup Exec System Recovery Management Solution, available with Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 at no additional charge. Channel partners can benefit from this feature as it provides them with complete remote control over their customers' backup environments through a VPN connection, allowing them to create, edit and distribute backup jobs, policies, installation packages, upgrade packages and client settings and enables remote recovery of volumes and/or complete systems. In addition, the Backup Exec System Recovery product line includes editions that backup and recover Microsoft Windows Servers, Microsoft Windows Small Business Servers as well as desktops and laptops. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 provides backup and recovery for small businesses across Windows and Linux. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 is available now for a suggested price of $795 per server and $69 per desktop. Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Linux Edition is scheduled to be available later this year for a suggested price of $495 per server.