At its Vision 2011 conference in Las Vegas this week, 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.
Today, Symantec said it will release Backup Exec.cloud, for its small-to-mid size customers, and the hosted Enterprise Vault.cloud product this June.
Dan Lamorena, director product marketing for Symantec’s Storage & Availability management group, said the company will make three more cloud- or virtualization-related product announcements over the summer – one per month. He offered no additional insight into what those products would be.
Also in June, the company is planning to release a pre-configured Backup Exec appliance that will remove the need for hardware and software integration for small business end users.
