Powerful
When you can solve more problems with less complexity, you have a simple yet powerful solution to improve administrative productivity. Backup Exec can help you meet business expectations for backup and recovery, reduce storage costs, secure confidential data, achieve regulatory requirements, and eliminate niche backup tools from your infrastructure.

• Fast and reliable backup and recovery—Backup Exec enables you to meet your organization’s data protection expectations by reducing the time it takes to back up and recover critical information, apps and servers. With Backup Exec you can mitigate the risk and cost of downtime by using a wide variety of flexible backup and recovery methods. Whether you are using disk, tape, or cloud, your information can be easily and reliably recovered.
• Advanced integration with VMware and Hyper-V—Backup Exec offers full protection for your virtual environment and Software-Defined Data Center including new Software- Defined Storage features like VMware® Virtual SAN and Virtual Volumes. Recover what you need, when and where you need it. Easily create stand-by virtual copies of your physical systems for disaster recovery in minutes, or for general P2V migrations. Backup Exec addresses VM sprawl by automatically identifying and protecting new VMs as they appear so you can be assured your VMs are protected from day one.
• Save more, store less—Flexible global de-duplication in Backup Exec helps you solve for growing data challenges, regardless of how much your data changes. It helps minimize backup windows, decrease network traffic, and reduce disk space required for storing backup data. Backup Exec de-duplicates across all virtual and physical backup jobs, reducing storage costs over other, individual job-based methods.

Flexible
Not every backup solution has the flexibility to protect all of your organization’s information – whether virtual, physical or cloud. Choose the data protection architecture that works for you, rather than letting the software dictate your setup. Back up anything to virtually any storage device, and restore nearly anywhere. From VMs, to entire servers, applications, single files and folders or granular application objects, Backup Exec is the single solution for all of your data protection needs.

• Virtual and physical data protection in a single solution —Lowering costs and simplifying backup tasks starts with deploying a single solution that is designed for your entire infrastructure regardless of platform: virtual, physical, or cloud. Deeply integrated with VMware, Microsoft and Linux platforms, Backup Exec can protect one to thousands of servers and virtual machines all from the same user console, providing optimal performance and efficiency. Scalability is an important consideration in backup and recovery, and Backup Exec supports you as your organization grows.
• Hybrid architectures to disk, tape, and cloud—Backup Exec provides the flexibility to protect VMware and Hyper-V environments using agents or agentless methods, in addition to Microsoft and Linux-based physical machines, whether local or remote. Flexible target options allow you to write to virtually any storage device including disk, tape, hosted storage, or directly to public cloud services such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage and Microsoft Azure. Gateway devices such as Amazon Storage Gateway or Microsoft StorSimple permit rapid migration to economical cloud storage.
• Fast, efficient, and versatile recovery —Backup Exec recovers data rapidly at any level of granularity, “from anywhere, to anywhere” with a single pass backup. In a few simple clicks, you can recover data from virtual machines and physical servers, including entire applications, individual objects, files, folders, and granular application items from Microsoft® Exchange, Active Directory®, SQL Server®, and SharePoint®. Backup Exec intelligently indexes and catalogs backup data so you don’t waste valuable time and disk space mounting backup jobs, determining what’s inside, and searching for specific data. Backup Exec efficiently restores data directly from the backup, which simplifies and speeds up recovery when you need it most. Backup Exec also provides built-in disaster recovery (DR) for physical and virtual systems to help minimize downtime, mitigate risk and eliminate business disruption. In the event of a disaster, Backup Exec can recover an entire server from a bare metal state to the same or dissimilar hardware in minutes, not hours or days. It can also convert your physical servers or their backups into virtual machines. Protected virtual machines can be rapidly spun up from the backup set for immediate use.

Trusted
Complex backup and recovery products can be inefficient, time consuming, and expensive to manage. Through intuitive wizards and insightful dashboards, Backup Exec is easy to implement, use and manage, whether you are upgrading from a previous version or switching from a competitive product.

• Easy to manage—Quickly track and monitor every backup and recovery job through an easy-to-use interface with intuitive dashboards and wizards. In a few simple clicks, you can set backup jobs, view backup status, and perform quick recoveries. Rather than using complex policies, save time and simplify the implementation of backup protection with a visual workflow that lets you replicate data on-premise, off-site or to the cloud. In addition, the centralized administration console in Backup Exec delivers scalable management of distributed sites and helps reduce the time and resources needed to manage your backup operations.
• Superior visibility—Backup Exec gives you visibility into your entire backup and recovery infrastructure so that you can take action when needed. Easily perform a granular search of backed up data including mailbox data by subject, Microsoft SQL databases by name, or SharePoint data by document name. Configure Backup Exec to intelligently browse your environment and discover servers, VMs and other data at risk.
• Flexible licensing—Backup Exec 16 is a cost-effective solution that’s easy to acquire, license, and deploy. Flexible licensing options for on-premise software include per TB, per socket or per module (agents and options). With Backup Exec you benefit from the ability to choose the right licensing model for your environment—all at affordable prices.

Support Services
No matter the size of your organization, a service interruption can result in significant losses. Fortunately, the Veritas technical support team is here to help. Veritas

Essential Technical Support is included with your Backup Exec purchase and provides 24 x 7 expert problem resolution. In addition, while your support contract is active, you can upgrade your appropriate Backup Exec licenses to newer versions as they become available — at no additional cost.

System Requirements
For a complete list of system requirements and supported devices, please refer to the Backup Exec 16 hardware and software compatibility list: http://backupexec.com/compatibility 

Available Editions, Agents, and Options

Backup Exec 16 Editions
Backup Exec is available as on-premise software with three licensing options—per TB, per socket, per module.

• Backup Exec 16 Capacity Edition Lite (per front-end TB)
• Backup Exec 16 Capacity Edition (per front-end TB)
• Backup Exec 16 V-Ray Edition (per occupied socket)
• Backup Exec 16 (a la carte: per module, media server, agent or option)

Backup Exec Agents and Options
Backup Exec provides scalable, easy-to-manage backup and recovery for virtual and physical environments. Backup Exec Agents and Options expand the features and functionality of Backup Exec to support critical applications, databases, storage configurations and much more.

• Backup Exec 16 Capacity Edition Lite includes a Backup Exec Server, Agent for VMware and Hyper-V, Agent for Windows, Agent for Applications and Databases, and Agent for Linux
• Backup Exec 16 Capacity Edition includes all Backup Exec Agents and Options
• Backup Exec 16 V-Ray Edition includes Agent for Applications and Databases, Agent for VMware and Hyper-V and Deduplication Option (additional Agents and Options can be added and licensed as required)
• Backup Exec 16 a la carte: Agents and Options are licensed individually

Agents

• Agent for Applications and Databases
• Agent for VMware and Hyper-V
• Agent for Windows®
• Agent for Linux
• Remote Media Agent for Linux

Options