Symantec provides holistic data protection solutions to address common customer challenges with backup and recovery, including:
1) Disparate backup solutions that add complexity and cost as data grows in volume and organizations virtualize.
2) Struggling to meet backup windows and service level agreements as data increases in size.
3) Looking for ways to reduce cost, complexity, and risk across their backup and recovery environment.
Symantec's portfolio includes NetBackup for large enterprises and Backup Exec for small and medium businesses, both utilizing shared deduplication and virtualization technologies. Symantec also offers appliances and cloud options for simplified backup and disaster recovery.
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it will deliver a new approach for modernizing backup and recovery, a process that has become unnecessarily complicated and expensive as organizations’ data stores grow exponentially. Compared to traditional backup, Symantec’s approach enables 100 times faster backup, eases management and simplifies recovery if a disaster occurs, helping customers realize significant cost savings while better protecting their business information.
This Blueprint is designed to help with customers who are utilising OST technology with Backup Exec’s deduplication Option to improve back end storage capabilities within a complex backup environment.
Relentless Information Growth
The data deduplication technology within Backup Exec 2014 breaks down streams of backup data into “blocks.” Each data block is identified as either unique or non-unique, and a tracking database is used to ensure that only a single copy of a data block is saved to storage by that Backup Exec server. For subsequent backups, the tracking database identifies which blocks have been protected and only stores the blocks that are new or unique. For example, if five different client systems are sending backup data to a Backup Exec server and a data block is found in backup streams from all five of those client systems, only a single copy of the data block is actually stored by the Backup Exec server. This process of reducing redundant data blocks that are saved to backup storage leads to significant reduction in storage space needed for backups.
Data has increased the necessity in making greater investments in IT infrastructure, with the increase in the duplication of data and Data protection processes, such as backup, has compound data growth creating multiple copies of primary data made for operational and disaster recovery. This has also made the Backup Infrastructure far more complex. Now that disk-based systems inherently offer faster restores, disk systems can also make backup environments more complex and difficult to manage. This creates a problem for many backup solutions to manage advanced storage device capabilities such as data deduplication, replication, and ability to write directly to tape.
Power of OpenStorage Technology (OST)
Symantec Backup Exec software and the OpenStorage technology (OST) have been designed to provide centrally managed, edge-to-core data protection in order to span multiple sites and provide disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) functionality and automate Data Movement. The OpenStorage API introduced in Backup Exec 2010 provides automated movement of data between sites and storage tiers and acts as a single Point of Management and Catalog for Backup Data, regardless of where it resides (remote office or corporate data center) or of what type of media it is stored on (disk or tape), or its age (recent backup or long term archive), providing better Control of Advanced Storage Devices.
The OpenStorage initiative allows customers to better utilize advanced, disk-based storage solutions from qualified partners. It gives the ability to ensure tighter integration between the backup software and storage, greater efficiency and performance using an easy-to-deploy, purpose-built appliance that does not have the limitation of tape emulation devices: increasing Performance and Optimization, achieving faster backups to deduplication appliances via a third-party OST plug-in enabled by Backup Exec.
Symantec continues to deliver on its information management strategy to enable organizations to protect their information completely, deduplicate everywhere to eliminate redundant data, delete confidently and discover efficiently with Enterprise Vault 9.0, Enterprise Vault Discovery Collector, NetBackup 5000 and the NetBackup Cloud Storage for Nirvanix.
Symantec delivers on its deduplication everywhere strategy - designed to reduce data everywhere, reduce complexity, and reduce data infrastructure – by announcing Backup Exec 2010 and NetBackup 7.0.
These products both integrate deduplication technology closer to the information source at the client and at the media server to help organizations achieve significant storage and cost savings and simplify their backup and recovery operations through a unified platform.
In addition to deduplication, NetBackup 7 helps enterprise-level organizations protect, store and recover information and adds improved virtual machine protection and faster disaster recovery. Backup Exec 2010 also adds integrated archiving and improved virtual machine protection, helping mid-sized businesses protect more data and utilize less storage - overall saving them time and money.
Better Backup For All Symantec Appliances NetBackup 5220 Backup Exec 3600 May...Symantec
Symantec’s latest backup appliances, NetBackup 5220 and Backup Exec 3600, which now include the latest NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 software from Symantec announced earlier this year. The new appliances deliver on Symantec’s Better Backup for All initiative to advance what Gartner has called “The Broken State of Backup.”
TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER▸ NetBackup 7.6 Plugin for VMware vCenterSymantec
In NetBackup 7.6, the NetBackup plug-in for vCenter integrates with VMware’s vSphere Client user interface to provide new VMware virtual machine administration capabilities.
The plug-in enables VMware administrators…
▸ To monitor their Virtual machine backups directly from the VMware vSphere Client UI.
▸ To export virtual machine backup reports from the vSphere Client UI.
▸ Initiate full virtual machine recovery directly from a Recovery Portal in the vSphere Client UI.
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it will deliver a new approach for modernizing backup and recovery, a process that has become unnecessarily complicated and expensive as organizations’ data stores grow exponentially. Compared to traditional backup, Symantec’s approach enables 100 times faster backup, eases management and simplifies recovery if a disaster occurs, helping customers realize significant cost savings while better protecting their business information.
This Blueprint is designed to help with customers who are utilising OST technology with Backup Exec’s deduplication Option to improve back end storage capabilities within a complex backup environment.
Relentless Information Growth
The data deduplication technology within Backup Exec 2014 breaks down streams of backup data into “blocks.” Each data block is identified as either unique or non-unique, and a tracking database is used to ensure that only a single copy of a data block is saved to storage by that Backup Exec server. For subsequent backups, the tracking database identifies which blocks have been protected and only stores the blocks that are new or unique. For example, if five different client systems are sending backup data to a Backup Exec server and a data block is found in backup streams from all five of those client systems, only a single copy of the data block is actually stored by the Backup Exec server. This process of reducing redundant data blocks that are saved to backup storage leads to significant reduction in storage space needed for backups.
Data has increased the necessity in making greater investments in IT infrastructure, with the increase in the duplication of data and Data protection processes, such as backup, has compound data growth creating multiple copies of primary data made for operational and disaster recovery. This has also made the Backup Infrastructure far more complex. Now that disk-based systems inherently offer faster restores, disk systems can also make backup environments more complex and difficult to manage. This creates a problem for many backup solutions to manage advanced storage device capabilities such as data deduplication, replication, and ability to write directly to tape.
Power of OpenStorage Technology (OST)
Symantec Backup Exec software and the OpenStorage technology (OST) have been designed to provide centrally managed, edge-to-core data protection in order to span multiple sites and provide disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) functionality and automate Data Movement. The OpenStorage API introduced in Backup Exec 2010 provides automated movement of data between sites and storage tiers and acts as a single Point of Management and Catalog for Backup Data, regardless of where it resides (remote office or corporate data center) or of what type of media it is stored on (disk or tape), or its age (recent backup or long term archive), providing better Control of Advanced Storage Devices.
The OpenStorage initiative allows customers to better utilize advanced, disk-based storage solutions from qualified partners. It gives the ability to ensure tighter integration between the backup software and storage, greater efficiency and performance using an easy-to-deploy, purpose-built appliance that does not have the limitation of tape emulation devices: increasing Performance and Optimization, achieving faster backups to deduplication appliances via a third-party OST plug-in enabled by Backup Exec.
Symantec continues to deliver on its information management strategy to enable organizations to protect their information completely, deduplicate everywhere to eliminate redundant data, delete confidently and discover efficiently with Enterprise Vault 9.0, Enterprise Vault Discovery Collector, NetBackup 5000 and the NetBackup Cloud Storage for Nirvanix.
Symantec delivers on its deduplication everywhere strategy - designed to reduce data everywhere, reduce complexity, and reduce data infrastructure – by announcing Backup Exec 2010 and NetBackup 7.0.
These products both integrate deduplication technology closer to the information source at the client and at the media server to help organizations achieve significant storage and cost savings and simplify their backup and recovery operations through a unified platform.
In addition to deduplication, NetBackup 7 helps enterprise-level organizations protect, store and recover information and adds improved virtual machine protection and faster disaster recovery. Backup Exec 2010 also adds integrated archiving and improved virtual machine protection, helping mid-sized businesses protect more data and utilize less storage - overall saving them time and money.
Better Backup For All Symantec Appliances NetBackup 5220 Backup Exec 3600 May...Symantec
Symantec’s latest backup appliances, NetBackup 5220 and Backup Exec 3600, which now include the latest NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 software from Symantec announced earlier this year. The new appliances deliver on Symantec’s Better Backup for All initiative to advance what Gartner has called “The Broken State of Backup.”
TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER▸ NetBackup 7.6 Plugin for VMware vCenterSymantec
In NetBackup 7.6, the NetBackup plug-in for vCenter integrates with VMware’s vSphere Client user interface to provide new VMware virtual machine administration capabilities.
The plug-in enables VMware administrators…
▸ To monitor their Virtual machine backups directly from the VMware vSphere Client UI.
▸ To export virtual machine backup reports from the vSphere Client UI.
▸ Initiate full virtual machine recovery directly from a Recovery Portal in the vSphere Client UI.
The Best Storage For V Mware Environments Customer Presentation Jul201Michael Hudak
Server virtualization is being widely adopted throughout the industry. Server virtualization places new demands on the storage infrastructure that should be considered early in the design process. NetApp provides storage and data management solutions that uniquely enable effective server virtualization environments, and which further extend the benefits of server virtualization. In this presentation, we’ll review why NetApp is the best storage solution for virtualized server environments.
A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint & Best Practices for Your NetBacku...Symantec
In this technical session we will share a few customer tested blueprints for implementing DR strategies with NetBackup appliances showing support for onsite and offsite disaster recovery. This includes the architecture design with Symantec best practices, down to execution of the wizards and command lines needed to implement the solution.
Watch the recording of this Google+ Hangout: http://bit.ly/13oTjvp
This presentation offers an introductory explanation of data center virtualization for audiences who are just beginning to learn how it works and why it might make sense for their organization.
Deduplication reduces the amount of disk storage needed to retain and protect data by ratios of 10-30x and greater, making a disk a cost-effective alternative to tape. Data on disk is available online and onsite for longer retention periods, and restores become fast and reliable. Storing only unique data on disk also means that data can be cost-effectively replicated over existing networks to remote sites for disaster recovery and consolidated tape operations.
Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok who's working as a Staff SE, Strategic Accounts in Singapore ha created an awesome vCenter Operations 5 Training. It's available in PowerPoint format and I really would like to advise you to read the slide notes. The presentation serves 2 purposes, first it provides in-depth training for those who are learning or evaluating vCenter Operations 5 and second it provides materials that vCenter Ops champion can use to share with internal colleagues (e.g. storage team, app team, etc)
Implementing a Disaster Recovery Solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager ...Paula Koziol
IBM Spectrum Virtualize delivers business continuity capabilities using a stretched cluster configuration together with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). The result is an end-to-end disaster recovery solution for organizations of all sizes. Join this session to understand how IBM Spectrum Virtualize, including offerings like IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and IBM Storwize Family, integrates with VMware SRM to automate and optimize disaster recovery operations. Everyone who works in mission critical environments understands the need for high availability and effective solutions for planned and unplanned outages. Organizations demand disaster recovery operations that are fully automated and can be executed in a repeatable manner, so that they are always prepared for disaster situations. This IBM-VMware solution offers SMB and enterprise customers the ability to survive a wide range of failures and enables seamless migration of applications across company sites for various planned activities, enabling zero-downtime application mobility.
This technical paper discusses the deployment of a VMware environment and best practices in using IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) for its primary storage. To know more about the Network Attached Storage, visit http://ibm.co/SH8WJo.
The 5 Keys to Virtual Backup ExcellenceBill Hobbib
ExaGrid and Veeam present the 5 Keys to Virtual Server Backup Excellence. Includes an overview of ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication and Veeam Backup & Replicaiton software, and customer case studies.
Why 2015 is the Year of Copy Data - What are the requirements?Storage Switzerland
Data is the new currency of business. To fully protect and exploit this data requires that it be copied to various backend processes like data protection, compliance and data analytics. The problem is that primary data is growing by 35 to 50% per year, the need to copy all this data can exacerbate this problem by 10X! Data centers have to find a way to mitigate this problem but still drive full value from backend processes.
In 2015 IT professionals will be hearing a lot about how copy data management will address this problem. But all copy data solutions are not created equal. Listen to experts from Storage Switzerland and Catalogic to define exactly what copy data is and what IT professionals should expect from these solutions.
Even though users and application owners are demanding it, the Always-On Data Center seems unrealistic to most IT professionals. Overcoming the cost and complexity of an Always-On environment while delivering consistent results is almost too much to ask. But the reality is that data centers of all sizes can affordably meet this expectation. The Always-On environment requires a holistic approach, counting on a highly virtualized infrastructure, flexible data protection software and purpose built protection storage.
Listen in as experts from Storage Switzerland, Veeam and ExaGrid architect a data availability and protection infrastructure that can meet and even exceed the Always-On expectations of an Always-On organization.
The Best Storage For V Mware Environments Customer Presentation Jul201Michael Hudak
Server virtualization is being widely adopted throughout the industry. Server virtualization places new demands on the storage infrastructure that should be considered early in the design process. NetApp provides storage and data management solutions that uniquely enable effective server virtualization environments, and which further extend the benefits of server virtualization. In this presentation, we’ll review why NetApp is the best storage solution for virtualized server environments.
A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint & Best Practices for Your NetBacku...Symantec
In this technical session we will share a few customer tested blueprints for implementing DR strategies with NetBackup appliances showing support for onsite and offsite disaster recovery. This includes the architecture design with Symantec best practices, down to execution of the wizards and command lines needed to implement the solution.
Watch the recording of this Google+ Hangout: http://bit.ly/13oTjvp
This presentation offers an introductory explanation of data center virtualization for audiences who are just beginning to learn how it works and why it might make sense for their organization.
Deduplication reduces the amount of disk storage needed to retain and protect data by ratios of 10-30x and greater, making a disk a cost-effective alternative to tape. Data on disk is available online and onsite for longer retention periods, and restores become fast and reliable. Storing only unique data on disk also means that data can be cost-effectively replicated over existing networks to remote sites for disaster recovery and consolidated tape operations.
Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok who's working as a Staff SE, Strategic Accounts in Singapore ha created an awesome vCenter Operations 5 Training. It's available in PowerPoint format and I really would like to advise you to read the slide notes. The presentation serves 2 purposes, first it provides in-depth training for those who are learning or evaluating vCenter Operations 5 and second it provides materials that vCenter Ops champion can use to share with internal colleagues (e.g. storage team, app team, etc)
Implementing a Disaster Recovery Solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager ...Paula Koziol
IBM Spectrum Virtualize delivers business continuity capabilities using a stretched cluster configuration together with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). The result is an end-to-end disaster recovery solution for organizations of all sizes. Join this session to understand how IBM Spectrum Virtualize, including offerings like IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and IBM Storwize Family, integrates with VMware SRM to automate and optimize disaster recovery operations. Everyone who works in mission critical environments understands the need for high availability and effective solutions for planned and unplanned outages. Organizations demand disaster recovery operations that are fully automated and can be executed in a repeatable manner, so that they are always prepared for disaster situations. This IBM-VMware solution offers SMB and enterprise customers the ability to survive a wide range of failures and enables seamless migration of applications across company sites for various planned activities, enabling zero-downtime application mobility.
This technical paper discusses the deployment of a VMware environment and best practices in using IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) for its primary storage. To know more about the Network Attached Storage, visit http://ibm.co/SH8WJo.
The 5 Keys to Virtual Backup ExcellenceBill Hobbib
ExaGrid and Veeam present the 5 Keys to Virtual Server Backup Excellence. Includes an overview of ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication and Veeam Backup & Replicaiton software, and customer case studies.
Why 2015 is the Year of Copy Data - What are the requirements?Storage Switzerland
Data is the new currency of business. To fully protect and exploit this data requires that it be copied to various backend processes like data protection, compliance and data analytics. The problem is that primary data is growing by 35 to 50% per year, the need to copy all this data can exacerbate this problem by 10X! Data centers have to find a way to mitigate this problem but still drive full value from backend processes.
In 2015 IT professionals will be hearing a lot about how copy data management will address this problem. But all copy data solutions are not created equal. Listen to experts from Storage Switzerland and Catalogic to define exactly what copy data is and what IT professionals should expect from these solutions.
Even though users and application owners are demanding it, the Always-On Data Center seems unrealistic to most IT professionals. Overcoming the cost and complexity of an Always-On environment while delivering consistent results is almost too much to ask. But the reality is that data centers of all sizes can affordably meet this expectation. The Always-On environment requires a holistic approach, counting on a highly virtualized infrastructure, flexible data protection software and purpose built protection storage.
Listen in as experts from Storage Switzerland, Veeam and ExaGrid architect a data availability and protection infrastructure that can meet and even exceed the Always-On expectations of an Always-On organization.
What is NetBackup appliance? Is it just NetBackup pre-installed on hardware?
The answer is both yes and no.
Yes, NetBackup appliance is simply backup in a box if you are looking for a solution for your data protection and disaster recovery readiness. That is the business problem you are solving with this turnkey appliance that installs in minutes and reduce your operational costs.
No, NetBackup appliance is more than a backup in box if you are comparing it with rolling your own hardware for NetBackup or if you are comparing it with third party deduplication appliances. Here is why I say this…
NetBackup appliance comes with redundant storage in RAID6 for storing your backups
Symantec worked with Intel to design the hardware for running NetBackup optimally for predictable and consistent performance. Eliminates the guesswork while designing the solution.
Many vendors will talk about various processes running on their devices to perform integrity checks, some solutions even need blackout windows to do those operations. NetBackup appliances include Storage Foundation at no additional cost. The storage is managed by Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and presented to operating system through Veritas File System. Why is this important? SF is industry-leading storage management infrastructure that powers the most mission-critical applications in the enterprise space. It is built for high-performance and resiliency. NetBackup appliance provides 24/7 protection with data integrity on storage provided by the industry leading technology.
The Linux based operating system, optimized for NetBackup, harden by Symantec eliminates the cost of deploying and maintaining general purpose operating system and associated IT applications.
NetBackup appliances include built-on WAN Optimization driver. Replicate to appliances on remote sites or to the cloud up to 10 times faster on across high latency links.
Your backups need to be protected. Symantec Critical System Protection provides non-signature based Host Intrusion Prevention protection. It protects against zero-day attacks using granular OS hardening policies along with application, user and device controls, all pre-defined for you in NetBackup appliance so that you don’t need to worry about configuring it.
Best of all, reduce your operational expenditure and eliminate complexity! One patch updates everything in this stack! The most holistic data protection solution with the least number of knobs to operate.
Are your backups are too big, and do they take too long? Are you worried you won’t get all of your data back? Do you waste hours managing complicated, temperamental backup implementations? Join is as we discuss innovative ways to improve your backups, make them more predictable, shrink backup windows, over-perform on SLAs, and reliably recover your data—every time, on time. Hear how other organizations are developing smarter backup strategies that align their recovery requirements to their business objectives, reduce stored data by up to 95% while boosting backup speeds as much as 200%.
Delivering Modern Data Protection for VMware EnvironmentsPaula Koziol
In this data-centric, always on world your data protection solutions need to keep up, especially for hybrid, multi-cloud VMware environments. Learn strategies to help you modernize your approach with solutions for data protection, copy data management and data re-use. Discover how to build in cyber resiliency, reduce storage OpEx and CapEx, leverage flexible multi-tier targets, and simplify, automate and orchestrate the copy-data life-cycle. One solution that will be highlighted is IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, a software-defined storage solution that provides near-instant recovery, replication, retention, and reuse for VMs, databases, and applications in hybrid multicloud environments. It is easily deployed as a virtual appliance and the agentless architecture is easy to maintain.
Presented at Boston VMUG UserCon on Sept. 25, 2019 by:
Steve Kenniston, Global Business Development Executive, IBM Storage
Steve.Kenniston@ibm.com
The Great Disconnect of Data Protection: Perception, Reality and Best Practicesiland Cloud
iland and Veeam recently conducted a data protection survey of IT organizations worldwide. In this webinar, we summarize and analyze the survey responses so you canunderstand today’s data protection landscape. Then, we cover best practices that can help ensure thatyour organization, and its data,are properly protected
Watch the webinar on-demand: https://www.iland.com/wb-data-protection-report/
Addressing VMware Data Backup and Availability Challenges with IBM Spectrum P...Paula Koziol
Whether in the enterprise or small-to-medium sized firms, VMware IT administrators and storage management teams face an increasingly complex set of decisions when it comes to deploying, managing, protecting and supporting storage infrastructure. Hear about the emerging issues in the most rapidly changing part of the IT environment, virtual machine (VM) management and availability. Learn about IBM’s perspective on data availability and how it is addressing future challenges you may not even be thinking about today with the new, highly flexible IBM Spectrum Protect Plus VM backup and availability management solution.
Data protection and recovery has become exceedingly complex and costly as IT environments have become larger and more distributed, virtualized, and more critical to the survival of the business. This presentation describes how IBM is addressing these challenges by simplifying and unifying data protection.
Backup exec 2014 deduplication option white paperSymantec
This white paper is intended to assist technical personnel as they design and implement Backup Exec™ 2014 and the Deduplication Option and make related decisions.
The attached white paper includes the following topics:
● Business Value
● Exchange Protection Methods and Technology
● Backup Exec & Exchange High Availability Configurations
● Exchange Recovery Methods & Technology
● Managing Backup Exec Rights and Permissions in Exchange Environments
● Example Backup Exec Configurations for Protecting ● Exchange
● Exchange Protection Notes and Best Practices
● Additional Resources
Modern Data Management and Protection Challenges
Customers of all types and sizes are seeking new and innovative ways to overcome challenges associated with data growth and storage management. While these challenges are not necessarily new, they continue to become more complex and more difficult to overcome due to the following:
Pace of data growth has accelerated
Location of data has become more disperse
Linkages between data sets have become more complex
Data and storage management challenges are compounded by the need for companies to protect critical data assets against disaster through backup and recovery solutions. In order to maintain backups of critical data assets, additional secondary storage resources are required. This additional layer of backup storage must be implemented wherever backups occur, including central data centers and remote offices.
Net App Syncsort Integrated Backup Solution SheetMichael Hudak
NetApp has core technology for
block-level data protection .
What does Syncsort add?
A: Syncsort leverages NetApp core technology while adding the following: Heterogeneous application support for Exchange,Oracle, SQL• Deeper integration with VMware for advanced,
automated recovery scenarios• Catalog search and restore across disk-based backup• A catalog that spans both disk and tape• Recovery from SnapMirror DR destinations• Automated Bare Metal Recovery
Helping Innovators to Innovate, Arrow ECS and IBMArrow ECS UK
A reminder of the Arrow ECS and IBM MSP & ISV Jam. Including the future of consumer technology, opportunities for MSP's and ISVs and an update on how IBM continues to innovate.
Gain maximum benefit from Channel Technical Professionals and the technical p...Arrow ECS UK
Gain maximum benefit from Channel Technical Professionals and the technical programs by Colm Kenneally, IBM Business Analytics, Mid-Market and Partner Enablement.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
3. “Between 2013 and 2016, one-third of
organisations will change backup /
recovery vendors due to frustration over
cost, complexity and capability”
Gartner (June 2013)
4. Today’s IT Challenges
Why Better Backup / Recovery is Needed?
Disparate Solutions
More Data, Complexity, Tighter SLAs
Disparity adds complexity and cost……
• Can’t see across virtual and physical
• Incompatible storage tiers
• Multiple management consoles
• Multiple vendors/maintenance/support
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“Organisations small and large need a
holistic protection strategy, a single
platform or solution, to handle the variety of
data types and workloads as opposed to
integrating a number of disparate solutions”
Dave Russell
VP, Storage Technologies Gartner
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5. Current State of the Enterprise
– Any of this happening to you?
Virtualization
• Server cost
• Footprint
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• Complexity
• Exploding data
• Storage, CapEx, and OpEx costs
• Application silos driving separate tools
• Fragmented backup tools, longer recovery
• Risk from too many unconnected processes
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Databas
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Silo Team
#3
DB Admin
Physical
Silo Team
#2
Backup
AdminVirtual
Silo Team
#1
VM Ninjas
Storage
Silo Team
#4
Storage
Admin
7. Traditional Backup Solutions = Complexity
Backup SoftwareTape Management
(Remote Offices)
Bare Metal
Restore Software
Disk Array
Backup Server
Software Version Control
Security Patches Technical Support for:
Backup Server, Storage Device etc.
Client Licensing
Physical vs. Virtual
8. What’s on our Customers minds
Continued cost pressure
Need for better utilization
Retention mandates
Capital ExpenseCapital Expense
Continued budget pressure
Lower cost IT skill sets
More complex environments
Operating ExpenseOperating Expense
Shorter backup windows
Broader DR coverage
Billing / chargeback
Service LevelsService Levels
Virtualization
Private / Public Cloud
Discovery
TransformationTransformation
Key Trends in Data Protection C.O.S.T.
9. 9
Symantec is the
only company
capable of
providing…
Better Backup For All - 2012 Backup Launch
10. Why choose Symantec for Backup / Recovery
Fortune 500
99%
Fortune 500
99%
Global 2000
90%
Global 2000
90%
Leading
Financial Services
10 of 10
Leading
Financial Services
10 of 10
Leading
Telecom
10 of 10
Leading
Telecom
10 of 10
Leading
Healthcare
10 of 10
Leading
Healthcare
10 of 10
Symantec backs up
more than half of all
the world’s business
information.
Symantec backs up
more than half of all
the world’s business
information.
#1 Backup/Recovery Market Share#1 Backup/Recovery Market Share
Combined 35% Market Share –
• Symantec NetBackup™ – Delivers 1st in VMware,
Storage, Copy Management, and Scale for the
Enterprise.
• Symantec Backup Exec™ – Delivers 1st in Microsoft
Application Protection, and Simplicity for SMB.
• Symantec™ V-Ray technology – Shared Between
Backup Exec / NetBackup – Dedupe, VMware, and
more.
Combined 35% Market Share –
• Symantec NetBackup™ – Delivers 1st in VMware,
Storage, Copy Management, and Scale for the
Enterprise.
• Symantec Backup Exec™ – Delivers 1st in Microsoft
Application Protection, and Simplicity for SMB.
• Symantec™ V-Ray technology – Shared Between
Backup Exec / NetBackup – Dedupe, VMware, and
more.
Symantec is # 1 in
VMware Backup
Symantec is # 1 in
VMware Backup
Enterprise Distributed Backup/Recovery
Revenue Market Share
Largest Global Data Protection Footprint…..
35,000 customers
11. The Backup Exec Portfolio
Software
Small Business
(1-3 Servers)
Physical and Virtual
(4-100’s of servers)
Virtual Only
(1-1000’s of Virtual
Machines)
Backup Exec.Cloud
Backup Exec 3600Backup Exec 3600
Backup Exec 2012
Small Business Edition
Backup Exec 2012
Appliance
Cloud
Backup Exec 2012
V-Ray Edition
12. Backup Exec 2012
Eliminate
Complexity
• Simplified user interface
and configurability
• Flexible delivery
models: software,
appliance, or cloud
• New easy small business
offerings
Intelligent Backup,
Easy Backup
Unite Virtual
and Physical
V-Ray sees deeper into
VMware® and Hyper V®
• New Backup Exec V-
Ray Edition for
virtual only
workloads
• Unified physical and
virtual protection
• Differentiated V-Ray
advantage
One Product,
Any Recovery
• No-Hardware disaster
recovery
• Granular recovery –
anything, anytime
• Powerful cloud-based
disaster recovery
Backup can take many
forms, recovery shouldn’t
13. Backup Exec Intelligent Backup
Challenge:
Where to find a backup solution
that’s quick and easy, that
assures total protection?
Answer: Backup Exec 2012
• Resource based set-up and
management versus job
based
• Automated policies based on
industry best practices
among similar companies
• Spend less time configuring,
managing and monitoring
backup operations
14. Simple User Interface
User experience based around
server protection status
User experience based around
server protection status
Transition from job management
to server management
Transition from job management
to server management
15. Super Simple Backup and Recovery Job
Creation
– New job stages feature
– Easily expand protection
– Just click “Add Stage”
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Example:
Stage 1: Backup to DiskStage 1: Backup to Disk Stage 2: Copy to TapeStage 2: Copy to Tape Stage 3: Convert to VirtualStage 3: Convert to Virtual
16. Unified Backup for both Virtual & Physical
• Protect and recover
Virtualized
Applications
• Restore entire virtual
machines, or
files/folders
• VMware Ready and
Microsoft® Certified
• Optimize for VM
performance by going
Agentless
• Optimize for granular
application recovery
by using an Agent
• Up to 90% reduction in
backup storage
• Deduplicate across all
virtual backups
VMware and
Hyper-V Protection
Agent or Agentless
Integrated
Deduplication
17. Backup Exec – Simplified Disaster Recovery
Challenge:
• Multiple point products for
backup and disaster
recovery or lack of a disaster
recovery solution all
together
Answer: Backup Exec 2012
• Instantly recover your physical
machines to virtual
machines in minutes
• Complete bare-metal recovery
of any system
• Simplified granular recovery
across physical and virtual
environments
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18. Traditional Backup Solutions = Complexity
Backup SoftwareTape Management
(Remote Offices)
Bare Metal
Restore Software
Disk Array
Backup Server
Software Version Control
Security Patches Technical Support for:
Backup Server, Storage Device etc.
Client Licensing
Physical vs. Virtual
19. Symantec Backup Exec 3600 Appliance
• Single product purchase
• Unified Install and
Configuration
• Single Vendor For:
– Hardware
– Software
– License management
– Support
• Single product purchase
• Unified Install and
Configuration
• Single Vendor For:
– Hardware
– Software
– License management
– Support
SimpleSimple
• Complete access:
– Client agents
– Application agents
– Expansion options
• Remote Offices:
– Remove tape
– Lower costs
• Complete access:
– Client agents
– Application agents
– Expansion options
• Remote Offices:
– Remove tape
– Lower costs
• All-in-one Solution
• Compatibility Assured
• Reliable Performance
• One Stop for Support
• All-in-one Solution
• Compatibility Assured
• Reliable Performance
• One Stop for Support
Cost EffectiveCost Effective Low RiskLow Risk
21. NetBackup Platform
Optimized for Source WorkloadsOptimized for Source Workloads
PhysicalPhysical VirtualVirtual ArraysArrays
NetBackup PlatformNetBackup Platform
Big DataBig Data
Disk AppliancesTape CloudCloud
Freedom of Storage ChoiceFreedom of Storage Choice
23. NetBackup Broad and Deep heterogeneous support
NetBackup Core Platform 23
Complex, global environments Supports the path of transformation
APPLICATION
SUPPORT
STORAGE
SUPPORT
PLATFORM
SUPPORT
24. Challenge:
Missed backup windows
due to increased data
growth
Answer:
• Speed up your backups
by up to 100x or
more!
• Reduce traditional full
backups to the speed
and cost of
incrementals
• Meet the most
demanding SLAs
NetBackup 7.5 Accelerator
25. Full – entire file systemFull – entire file system
IncrementalIncremental
Full + Incremental RecoveryFull + Incremental Recovery
Traditional Backup
NetBackup 7.5 Accelerator
Faster Backup, Faster Recovery
Backup w/ Accelerator
FullFull
RecoveryRecovery
Changed file tracking + Dedupe
up to 100x faster
Backup and Recovery Flash
Poll
Symantec sponsored
10/2011
2x faster
26. NetBackup Accelerator
What it does:
– Speed up your backups
by up to 100x or more!
– Performs a full backup in
the time it takes to do
an incremental
– Recover with the speed
of a full backup
– File systems with 10s of
millions of files
because only changed
files are backed up
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61GB, ROS
to Beijing;
1m33s
(500K files)
27. NetBackup Appliance Family
– Driving down Operating and Capex costs
NetBackup 5220NetBackup 5220 NetBackup 5020NetBackup 5020
29. Backup / Recovery – The Symantec Advantage
• Unified Protection
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• Global Deduplication
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• Simplified Disaster Recovery
• Application Awareness and Platform Integration
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• Purpose Built Backup Appliances (PBBA)
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• Reduce COST, COMPLEXITY & RISK
30. Questions to ask Customers
• How many backup solutions do you have in place?
• Are you struggling to achieve Server Level Agreements?
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• Are backup windows being missed?
• How are you managing data growth?
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• What is your data protection strategy?
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• Would you like to consilidate your backup / recovery estate?
• How are you reducing cost, complexity and risk?
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