Symantec Declares Deduplication Everywhere

CUPERTINO, CA, Jul 07 (MARKET WIRE) --
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced the next phase of its
deduplication strategy to help organizations reduce data, reduce
management complexity and reduce infrastructure so they can stop buying
storage, recover information faster and improve return on virtualization.
Symantec is moving deduplication closer to information sources by
integrating the technology into its information management platforms:
NetBackup, Backup Exec and Enterprise Vault, and centrally managing
native deduplication as well as third-party deduplication appliances.

Symantec's strategy calls for a three-step reduction program:

-- Reduce data everywhere by moving deduplication technology closer to
information sources
-- Reduce deduplication complexity by providing centralized management for
all forms of deduplication, both Symantec and partner technologies
-- Reduce infrastructure by using deduplication to improve the return on
server virtualization by providing storage consolidation, efficient virtual
server protection and simplified management

According to a recent study(1), 51 percent of organizations expect to
spend more on storage in 2009 even though more than 90 percent have lower
budgets and fewer people than in 2008. Today's deduplication appliances
have limited impact since they only address the end of the information
management lifecycle. By contrast, Symantec's Enterprise Vault moves
messages, files and SharePoint content directly out of applications like
Exchange, SharePoint and Windows file shares to a deduplicated archive --
moving deduplication to the information source. Using NetBackup or Backup
Exec 2010, organizations will be able to deduplicate backups immediately,
at the client, and centrally manage deduplication in the data center and
globally across remote offices. As a result, organizations can reduce
backup storage by as much as 95 percent while still providing rapid
recovery of applications in the event of a disaster.

"Symantec recommends organizations put storage on a diet by deploying
deduplication technology to curb data bloat and save costs," said Deepak
Mohan, senior vice president, Information Management Group, Symantec.
"Protecting more than 50 percent of the world's data, Symantec is well
positioned to deliver deduplication everywhere because our solutions are
deployed everywhere the information exists."

Symantec also has a unique approach to reducing backup deduplication
complexity by providing a single interface to manage backups using any
combination of integrated deduplication software and third-party
deduplicated storage through its OpenStorage API. Organizations can
deduplicate everywhere while centralizing management to reduce time and
cost of operations.

Symantec is delivering on its deduplication strategy with a
multi-phased
approach:

-- Integrated deduplication is available today in NetBackup and Enterprise
Vault, offering deduplicated archiving, deduplicated backup storage and
global deduplicated remote office backup.
-- NetBackup currently offers integrated, centralized management for
third-party deduplicated storage from Data Domain, Quantum, Falconstor and
EMC through the OpenStorage API.
-- NetBackup PureDisk 6.6, scheduled to be available later this year, will
improve storage efficiency by adding enhanced deduplication for backups of
virtual server images.
--
Backup Exec 2010, scheduled to be available later this year, will integrate
deduplication (using NetBackup PureDisk technology) into both backup
clients and Backup Exec media server. Backup Exec will also add the
OpenStorage API to manage third-party deduplication appliances.
-- NetBackup 7, scheduled to be available in 2010, will integrate
deduplication into the backup client and NetBackup media server.

Supporting Quotes:

-- "We recently deployed NetBackup PureDisk to simplify the deduplication
across both our physical and virtual servers and have already seen
tremendous return on investment," said Al Schipani, manager of server
engineering, Westchester Medical Center. "PureDisk allows us to back up 90
percent less virtual machine data, eliminate 80 percent of tape costs and
keep two months worth of backup data on hand for quick restore from disk.
We further reduced costs since PureDisk was able to backup to our existing
storage systems without having to buy a virtual tape library -- this is a
huge benefit and one of the reasons we selected Symantec over other
deduplication vendors on the market."
-- "Data deduplication is a popular form of data reduction that is
generating interest among IT decision makers," according to the Gartner
report(2) authored by Stanley Zaffos, Dave Russell. "Where applicable,
data deduplication results in disk capacity reductions anywhere from
one-third to 1/25 of the original physical disk requirement; it also offers
secondary cost savings in power and cooling, network bandwidth usage
reduction and, potentially, software licensing costs."

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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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Forward-looking Statements
Any forward-looking indication of plans for
products is preliminary and all future release dates are tentative and
are subject to change. Any future release of the product or planned
modifications to product capability, functionality or feature are subject
to ongoing evaluation by Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and
should not be considered firm commitments by Symantec and should not be
relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

(1) Stop Buying Storage survey, Applied Research, March 2009

(2) Gartner, "Use Data Deduplication to Improve Availability and Lower
Cost," by Stanley Zaffos, Dave Russell, May 27, 2009

CONTACT:

Katie Beck
Symantec Corporation
424-750-7586
katie_beck@symantec.com

Amanda Jones
Connect Public Relations
801-373-7888
amandaj@connectpr.com

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