Symantec delivers advanced backup reporting

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Backup Reporter also eliminates the time consuming manual process of creating ad-hoc reporting spreadsheets.  Reports can be scheduled and distributed via email, thereby automating a process that can otherwise be prone to error.

 

"Today's enterprises face a growing number of challenges in trying to comply with regulatory requirements and management requests, particularly when it comes to trying to achieve a single, centralized view of their backup and recovery operations across multiple, disparate backup applications and ensuring that they have a standardized and repeatable reporting process in place," said Laura Dubois, research director, IDC. "Backup Reporter is a timely solution to this growing need that helps take the guess work out of trying to comply with regulatory and management requirements."

 

Running Backup and Recovery Operations as a Shared IT Service Backup operations typically operate as a cost center and are separate from the rest of the organization without means to relate the actual costs of running backup and recovery operations to executive management.  Backup Reporter transforms this process by providing a mechanism for IT administrators to achieve cost analysis, departmental visibility, and chargeback. Values for backup and recovery operations can be formulated, assigned, and appropriated to specific business units or customers.  This helps IT administrators to proactively show what backup resources are being consumed and assigns a value to backup operations that is based on the requirements of the business.  Reports can be filtered by custom parameters that can be designated to meet the company's needs.  For example, backup utilization can be presented in a variety of parameters such as geography, application, business unit, platform, location, and service tier.

 

The ability of Backup Reporter to run backup and recovery operations as a business also make this product ideal for managed service providers as it easily identifies resource consumption across diverse customer environments and provides usage data which can be directly used for customer billing.

 

Symantec's Unique Value Proposition

Together, Backup Reporter and NetBackup deliver a comprehensive data management and reporting solution.  This powerful combination provides real-time operational management with core NetBackup (via NetBackup Operations Manager) for day-to-day IT tasks and advanced backup reporting with Backup Reporter for managing backup service levels and compliance. For customers with multiple NetBackup environments, Backup Reporter can aggregate reporting into one centralized view using common NetBackup icons.

 

Unlike other reporting products, Backup Reporter is differentiated by its open schema giving IT administrators access to all the valuable information captured in the database.  Backup Reporter enables data to be seamlessly exported and tailored with custom applications such as financial business systems.  Data is made consistent or "normalized" across different backup applications so trending and detailed analysis of heterogeneous environments is dramatically simplified.

 

"Backup Reporter provides enterprises with superior reporting that delivers premier service-level management that today's enterprise environments demand," said Matt Kixmoeller, senior director, product management, Symantec.  "Backup Reporter empowers IT administrators to be proactive about understanding, measuring and proving backup service-level compliance."

  

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