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VERITAS EXTENDS DATA PROTECTION LEADERSHIP WITH NetBackup 5.0

VERITAS Software Corp, a leading storage software company, unveiled a major new version of the industry's No. 1 backup and recovery software, VERITAS NetBackup 5.0. Surrounded by VERITAS customers, VERITAS Software Chairman, CEO and President Gary Bloom joined Bob Greifeld, NASDAQ's president and CEO, to preside over the opening of trading at The NASDAQ Stock Market in New York City, ushering in the new product and underscoring VERITAS's market leadership in enterprise data protection.

With this new release of NetBackup 5.0 software, VERITAS fulfills its commitment to bring advanced data protection techniques, faster disk-based backup, and desktop and laptop data protection capabilities to its flagship enterprise data protection software.

"According to our own internal testing, VERITAS NetBackup 5.0 performs even faster than previous versions," said Gary Pilafas, senior systems/storage architect at UAL Loyalty Services. "Using Synthetic Backups will reduce our backup window while shrinking restore times, allowing us to extend higher service levels for our business."

New capabilities include:

• Faster backup and recovery with disk-based data protection
• Synthetic backup: This new feature enhances restore times without the need to conduct a full backup by seamlessly melding together smaller backups into one. This helps reduce recovery time and tape media usage.
• Disk-based data protection: VERITAS NetBackup 5.0 software now supports a wide variety of low-cost, mid-range and high-end disk hardware platforms to allow faster backups and instant recovery from disk. Many disk vendors have partnered with VERITAS to deliver these industry-leading price-performance benefits.
• Extended automation of manual tasks, saving more time and money
• Simplified snapshots: The VERITAS NetBackup 5.0 Advanced Client brings a variety of powerful snapshot techniques into one simple offering that helps organizations select the best snapshot backup and recovery method for their business needs and unique IT environment in just five clicks, helping to reduce the time it takes to back up and restore critical data. The FlashBackup feature enables the quick and easy backup and recovery of very large numbers of files. FlashBackup saves time over other methods that often require a full restore operation to obtain a single file.
• Desktop and laptop data protection: A major new component of VERITAS NetBackup 5.0 software is the new Desktop and Laptop Option, which enables the transparent protection of critical corporate data that resides on the thousands of laptops and desktops outside the data center, working with existing VERITAS infrastructure. The new option synchronizes real-time copies of a user's data among the user's multiple machines. Users can also restore their own data, helping to reduce costly IT interaction.
• Increased availability of mission-critical data
• Disk-to-disk copy and disk staging: Disk-to-disk copy allows backup copies for as many as three secondary backup targets simultaneously, helping save time and costs when copies of data are needed for off- site archiving or processing. VERITAS NetBackup disk staging increases performance of backup and recovery procedures by leveraging the faster disk-based storage as an intermediary medium. VERITAS NetBackup 5.0 software shrinks the backup window, combining the performance of disk and longevity and portability of tape.
• Data Lifecycle Management: VERITAS NetBackup 5.0 software integrates with the new VERITAS Data Lifecycle Manager through the shared media management layer. Customers can leverage the disk staging features of NetBackup 5.0 with Data Lifecycle Manager software's support for management of a wide variety of storage media. No new hardware is required for implementation.

"As an information storage architect, Datalink seeks strategic partners who provide best-in-class products. Once again VERITAS demonstrates leadership by providing storage administrators innovative tools that streamline processes and provide comprehensive data protection for mission-critical data. We look forward to offering NetBackup 5.0 software to our customers," said Charlie Westling, president and chief operating officer of Datalink, a VERITAS partner and reseller.

"VERITAS is committed to delivering industry-leading technology innovation, such as synthetic backups, disk-based backups and the extension of data protection and synchronization to the edge of the network," said Mark Bregman, executive vice president of product operations at VERITAS Software. "These products will help our customers maintain the integrity and safety of their critical data, while making their IT operations more efficient and productive."