Symantec / Red Hat Global Alliance

Alliance Overview

Red Hat and Symantec's strategic partnership brings together two market leading companies to deliver a portfolio of security and backup solutions to customers, helping to lower their operational and capital expenses through reduced server, software and storage acquisition. Red Hat and Symantec have a long-standing technology and engineering engagement, which gives our customers the flexibility to deploy what they need, when they need it -- reducing large up front IT expenses. This alliance also allows us to address issues early in the platform and application development cycle, which enables mutual customers to confidently deploy Symantec applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Veritas NetBackup from Symantec Solution

The NetBackup on Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution combines technology from two market leading vendors. This platform delivers to our customers impressive security and comprehensive recovery services. Let us help you reduce your IT infrastructure costs for comprehensive protection of mission critical applications with NetBackup on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Our joint solution will help your organization to:

  • lower OPEX and CAPEX through reduced server, software and storage acquisition
  • deploy what you need, when you need it, reducing large up front IT expenses
  • eliminate vendor lock-in which drives up IT costs

Technical Overview

Overview

Red Hat is an around-the-clock, global network of the most experienced, motivated, and knowledgeable Linux open source software support engineers. Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Red Hat and Symantec are engaged on various partnership levels:

Engineering Partnership: We have an engineering-level engagement to ensure current and future releases of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform address the changing and growing requirements of enterprise customers at the kernel and community levels. The engagement between our engineering organizations is designed to improve the customer experience by addressing issues early in the platform and application development to ensure that mutual customers can confidently deploy Symantec applications.

Certification of applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A comprehensive set of test suites and environments are used in certifying Symantec applications. The applications are put through extensive testing infrastructure of both Red Hat (test harness) and Symantec QA infrastructure to ensure all applications are tested appropriately prior to general availability. The second objective includes certification close to the time of the platform version releasing, allowing customers to seamlessly leverage advances in the platform and applications.

Participation in beta and advanced releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Symantec participates actively and repeatedly in the pre-releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, contributing progressively to the advancement and development of the platform and ensuring Red Hat and Symantec deliver a superior solution every time.

Partnership in advancing customer support and timely resolution of issues: Red Hat and Symantec have implemented joint customer resolution processes via TSAnet and joint customer support engagement forums. Additionally, Red Hat and Symantec have jointly launched a Partner Gateway Initiative, a collaborative effort to deliver rapid, highly trained support expertise to customers through joint engineering, pre-release testing and a unique and innovative shared virtual lab support model.

NetBackup on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Stop Buying Storage

Growing organizations may be tempted to take the "quick fix" to storage management problems. The incremental cost of adding storage is relatively small and is easily absorbed within budgets. Such a short-cut may facilitate faster project roll-out, but it leads to underutilized storage. The NetBackup on Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution is the next generation data protection solution that leverages full storage capabilities for long-term growth.

Complete - Comprehensive to cover your complex environments

  • Complete Breadth: supports a wide spectrum of applications, databases and platforms
  • Complete Depth: supports the broadest set of disk (SAN, NAS, and DAS), tape and virtual tape library vendors & delivers the latest data protection technologies like deduplication, virtualization, granular recovery, and continuous data protection
  • Completely Virtual: protects virtual machines including all virtual machine types and applications from mission-critical deployments to commodity servers and file/print

Powered by Disk - Take advantage of existing investments in disk arrays and improve backup and recovery service levels

  • Deduplication: eliminate backup redundancy by saving incremental changes only
  • Performance/Scalability: with technologies such as SAN Client, Media Server Load Balancing, NetBackup on Red Hat is able to deliver performance on the most scalable platform in the industry
  • All tightly integrated: Symantec and Red Hat have brought together key technologies that can be managed by a single console - Backup, Recovery, Archiving and Reporting

Centered Around Recovery - Every backup operation is designed for the fastest and most efficient recovery whenever needed

  • Optimum recovery time: recover data quickly and automatically, because in many cases, it is still local and easily accessible
  • Granular Recovery of application and database data: granular and image based recoveries from a single backup
  • Data Replication: backup and recovery directly from disk

Key Customer Benefits

CIOs have ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat continues to rank high with CIOs because we can deliver this value to our customers through compelling price and performance benefits. Satisfied joint Symantec / Red Hat customers around the world continue to deploy Symantec on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, because of the high value and leading technical solutions we can deliver. Symantec customers who have deployed the NetBackup solution have seen their OPEX and CAPEX costs reduced through lower hardware costs, better application performance, and reduced system administration overhead.

Customer Success Stories and References

Meet Our Partners

Red Hat is partnering with global solution providers to deliver a selection of trusted advisors to help design, deliver, and implement certified Symantec / Red Hat solutions. Here are some of our joint Red Hat and Symantec business partners that can help find the right solutions for your business needs:

For a complete listing of all of our partners and to find a solutions provider with the technology expertise, customer focus, and industry knowledge, visit our partner locater service at https://www.redhat.com/wapps/partnerlocator

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