Quest Software Unveils NetVault Extended Architecture to Align Backup and Recovery with Service Continuity
June 05 2012 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Quest Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSFT):
The role of backup and recovery has changed. In addition to
ensuring organizations have at least one good copy of their data,
IT must now make sure mission-critical applications and databases
can be restored in accordance with service level agreements (SLAs).
Problematically, traditional data protection software focuses on
servers and infrastructure, with no visibility into whether SLAs
can be achieved. Building on its 25-year heritage as an industry
leader in the management of mission-critical applications and
databases, Quest Software is redefining backup and recovery with
the industry’s first services-centric data protection solution.
News Facts:
- Quest Software today unveiled NetVault®
Extended Architecture (XA), a new platform unifying its data
protection technologies, and enabling organizations to align backup
and recovery directly to their service continuity needs.
- NetVault XA allows administrators to
organize, schedule, view, and manage backups based on specific
business and technology services. This gives them the ability to
set specific recovery time and recovery point objectives for each,
regardless of whether the servers, applications, and databases that
power those services reside on- or off-premise, or in a physical or
virtual environment, or a combination thereof.
- In addition, NetVault XA enables IT to
move beyond the single-pane-of-glass approach to backup by
delivering a customized experience for administrators across
multiple roles. Whereas most data protection solutions offer a
flat, single-dimensional view intended solely for the generalist
backup administrator, NetVault XA gives specialists such as DBAs,
application administrators, and VMware administrators access to
customized views and workflows that map directly to the specific
SLAs associated with each role.
- With NetVault XA, administrators have
direct visibility into the recoverability of the specific IT
services they are responsible for managing, and are able to
leverage specialized data protection tools to perform granular,
platform-specific backup and recovery tasks – all without
sacrificing the convenience and simplicity of single-console
management.
- NetVault XA also features a host of
additional capabilities designed to simplify backup and recovery
for administrators, including:
- Security across the enterprise: An intelligent and
adaptive policy engine that enforces specific data protection
controls and requirements.
- SLA validation: Built-in
validation of a given protection plan through alerts that
proactively let users know whether or not an SLA is achievable
based on the established backup and recovery parameters.
- Unified management of on-premise and
cloud assets: The ability to act as a gateway to multi-vendor
clouds, thus enabling users to manage both on-premise and cloud
assets from a single interface.
- Role-based reporting
capabilities: Role-based reporting capabilities that empower
users to develop reports that map directly to the specific SLAs
they are responsible for maintaining, to better demonstrate the
impact and value of backup and recovery to the entire
business.
- Anytime, anywhere access:
Remote, cloud-based operating capabilities, giving users anytime,
anywhere access, including the ability to manage and control backup
and recovery operations directly from their iPads.
Unifying Quest’s Data Protection Portfolio
- A flexible and extensible solution with
a set of shared services, NetVault Extended Architecture will serve
as the centerpiece of Quest’s data protection solution. It will
enable customers to deploy and manage all of the company’s backup
and recovery technologies – including the NetVault, vRanger®,
LiteSpeed®, and Recovery Manager product families – from a single
console, while leveraging a host of shared services including
deduplication; cloud gateway; and a common scheduler, catalog,
policy manager, and reporting engine.
- All of Quest’s current data protection
products, as well as future releases, will ultimately snap
seamlessly into the NetVault XA management console. This extensible
architecture is designed to give companies the flexibility to grow
seamlessly from SMB to enterprise, by leveraging a pay-as-you-grow
approach that alleviates any need to rip and replace solutions as
the organization’s needs evolve.
Pricing and Availability
- NetVault Extended Architecture will be
available to customers as a downloadable thin-client at no
additional charge.
- The first iteration of NetVault XA will
be generally available in the second half of 2012, and will be
incorporated into the planned releases of NetVault Backup, NetVault
SmartDisk, and vRanger.
Supporting Quotes:
- Walter Angerer, senior vice
president and general manager, Data Protection, Quest
Software
“The changing requirements of the modern
business are forcing IT to shift from an infrastructure-centric
view of backup and recovery to a services-centric view, one in
which the focus is on protecting mission-critical applications and
databases, regardless of whether they reside in physical, virtual,
or cloud environments. Quest is leveraging its longstanding
expertise as a leading application, database, and virtualization
management vendor to bring to market a deeply integrated,
enterprise-class data protection solution that provides a level of
application-recoverability no other vendor can match. With NetVault
Extended Architecture, IT can finally ensure their backup and
recovery operations are aligned with the service continuity needs
of the organization.”
- Robert Amatruda, research director,
Data Protection and Recovery, IDC
"Customers are grappling with the management
and protection challenges in mixed physical, virtual, and cloud
environments. Quest's NetVault XA software allows customers to
simplify management and protect their critical data by aligning
their recovery needs to business-line objectives and service
continuity needs."
- Don McNaughton, vice president of
sales, HorizonTek, Inc.
“As a longstanding Quest data protection
partner, we see NetVault XA as a major step forward in the
company’s evolution as a backup vendor. Not only will HorizonTek’s
customers benefit from being able to manage multiple Quest products
from a single console, but the ability to better manage and meet
SLAs for application recovery will help address a major need in the
marketplace.”
- Dan Peichel, vice president,
Peripheral Products, Inc.
“We’re always looking for ways to help our
customers get more out of their technology investments – especially
when it comes to backup and recovery – so we’re really excited
about what Quest is doing with its new NetVault XA platform.
They’re not only making it easier for customers to deal with the
challenges posed by complex environments, rampant data growth, and
demanding user expectations, but they’re doing so with a truly
unique, modern user-interface that we think our customers are going
to love.”
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Supporting Resources:
- Quest Software, Inc.:
http://www.quest.com/
- More Quest news:
http://www.quest.com/newsroom/
- Twitter:
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- Facebook:
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- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/
- Quest TV: http://www.quest.com/tv/
About Quest:
Established in 1987, Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT) provides
simple and innovative IT management solutions that enable more than
100,000 global customers to save time and money across physical and
virtual environments. Quest products solve complex IT challenges
ranging from database management, data protection, identity and
access management, monitoring, user workspace management, to
Windows management.
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