Symantec is making major changes to its backup appliance business by expanding its NetBackup appliance product line with a new model while preparing to end production of its Backup Exec appliances.

Backup Exec has been around in one form or another since the early 1990s and has a reputation as one of the more reliable backup products on the market. Even so, errors do occur in the Veritas product ...

Most backup vendors offer a single backup product, with multiple editions of that product targeted toward various industry segments, such as consumer and enterprise. Veritas, however, is an exception.

We have had some ongoing issues with BackupExec that has gotten my backup team frustrated. So I am starting to examine some options. My first thought it to look at NetBackup. We have been a Symantec ...