Symantec Helps Customers Reduce Recovery Time With Advanced Data Protection for VMware

CUPERTINO, CA, Apr 29 (MARKET WIRE) --
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced that businesses around the
world, including Megatone Carsa S.A., City of Winter Park and Golden
Temple of Oregon, LLC, are seeing tangible results using Symantec data
protection solutions to secure and manage their VMware environments. These
organizations rely on Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec to protect their
data and systems in both physical and virtual environments through a
single solution, helping them reduce server, network and storage
requirements and improve recovery time and reliability. Through tight
integration with VMware, NetBackup and Backup Exec deliver market leading
support for virtual environments and the most efficient virtual machine
backups possible.

"Symantec is committed to solving customers' most pressing data protection
challenges," said Matt Kixmoeller, vice president of product management,
Symantec Information Management Group. "With the latest releases of
NetBackup and Backup Exec, businesses of all sizes can be confident that
they are protecting their virtual machines by leveraging Symantec's
Granular Recovery Technology for VMware, allowing the recovery of entire
virtual machines (VMDK files) or individual files and folders from a
single pass backup."

Megatone Carsa S.A.

Megatone Carsa S.A., a leading consumer electronics retail chain
operating in Argentina, is using NetBackup for VMware to ensure reliable
backup and recovery for its new virtual server environment. With
NetBackup, the company is backing up its data three times faster and has
a recovery success rate of 100 percent.

"NetBackup for VMware provides excellent integration with VMware
Consolidated Backup and it's very easy to manage and configure," said
Pablo Soto, IT administrator, Megatone Carsa S.A. "NetBackup is extremely
fast, has a surprisingly low impact on our network performance and allows
us to restore an entire virtual machine or a single file or folder
through its Granular Recovery Technology."

City of Winter Park

Located in Florida, the City of Winter Park virtualized 32 of its 55
servers, resulting in reduced costs and server space. By deploying
NetBackup for their VMware environment, the City of Winter Park has a
single solution that can provide data protection for both physical and
virtual environments, reducing cost and complexity. The city has a
backup success rate of 100 percent and its IT staff spends less than 2
hours per week on backup administration.

"We wanted a new solution that allowed us to streamline our backup and
recovery processes for virtual machines and determined that NetBackup
provided the easiest and most capable protection of VMware," said Parsram
Rajaram, IT Manager, City of Winter Park. "With NetBackup, we are able to
quickly restore a virtual machine, allowing us to focus on our other day
to day responsibilities."

Golden Temple of Oregon, LLC

Golden Temple of Oregon is a manufacturer of natural foods with more than
300 employees worldwide. The company recently upgraded its Symantec
Backup Exec solution to version 12.5 to deploy the virtual agent within
its existing VMware environment. By leveraging Backup Exec 12.5, Golden
Temple was able to reduce its time to complete a full backup of its
virtual environment by 50 percent.

"We have been a long-standing Backup Exec customer for the past six years
and upgraded to the latest version to receive significant time and cost
savings by protecting both physical and virtual environments through one,
simplified solution," said Gurusimran Khalsa, Golden Temple of Oregon,
LLC.

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems
management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage
their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against
more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling
confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is
available at www.symantec.com.

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Products:

Symantec Solutions for VMware

Presentations:
Protecting Virtual
Environments - Deepak Mohan, Senior VP, Storage and Availability
Management Group

High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Virtual Environments - Rob
Soderbery, SVP, Storage Availability and Management

White Papers:
Altiris Managed Virtualization

Identifying Storage Management Challenges When Deploying Server
Virtualization

Webcasts:

Storage Management for Virtual Environments

Veritas Virtual Infrastructure: Enterprise Class Server Virtualization and
Advanced Storage Management

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Contacts:
Katie Beck
Symantec Corp.
+1 (424) 750-7586
katie_beck@symantec.com

Andrew Ryan
Connect Public Relations
+1 (954) 434-9567
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