Symantec announces plans to offer SaaS products

PanARMENIAN.Net - At its Visions 2011 conference in Las Vegas, Symantec announced plans to offer its midrange backup and enterprise-class archive software products as SaaS offerings.

The company also announced that its Enterprise Vault 10 archiving product can now be used store corporate social media data, and unveiled the Veritas Operations Manager 4.0 software that's aimed at supporting virtualized server environments.

Sean Regan, senior director product marketing for Symantec's information management group, said the company's upcoming SaaS, or "cloud," offerings are a natural progression for the products, which were first released as software last fall.

In September, Symantec announced two new appliance-based offerings for its backup and data management products, NetBackup , as well as Backup Exec and Enterprise Vault 9 .

In January, the company added data deduplication functionality to those appliances.

Symantec said it will release Backup Exec.cloud, for its small-to-mid size customers, and the hosted Enterprise Vault.cloud product this June.

Also in June, the company is planning to release a preconfigured Backup Exec appliance that will remove the need for hardware and software integration for small business end users.

The company also announced updates to Backup Exec 2010, ComputerWorld reported.