Symantec enhances the data and storage management environment of enterprise customers through a variety of products and technologies. Symantec simplifies the management of backup and recovery tasks, ensures maximum data and application availability across operating system, as well as simplifies the administration and management of heterogeneous environments.

Symantec provides data protection that is scalable from the desktop to the data center and is the benchmark for data backup and recovery in IT environments. Regardless of the type or size of the environment, Symantec backup solutions protect critical data, simplify the management of data backup and recovery, and provide consistent, reliable data protection. Symantec provides a series of backup related products, such as Backup Exec and NetBackup, for a multitude of operating systems. Symantec supports Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology that enables the coordination of application-aware snapshots for Microsoft applications, such as Microsoft Exchange 2003 and SQL 2000, with the EqualLogic PS Series arrays.

The EqualLogic and Symantec integration with Microsoft VSS technology is a strategic component to an improved backup and recovery process. This technology integration allows IT administrators the ability to focus time on servicing the needs of their business community rather than backup management. By improving backup and recovery technology through improved automation, valuable IT resources are redirected delivering increased savings in capital and on-going operational expenditures.

EqualLogic and Symantec have also teamed together to provide industry-leading iSCSI support of the Sun Solaris environment which traditionally host critical applications such as ERP systems and data warehouses for large enterprises. EqualLogic is the first iSCSI storage vendor to achieve Symantec Technology Enabled certification of VERITAS Storage Foundation. Through the program, EqualLogic and Symantec work together to ensure PS Series compatibility with VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System, and VERITAS Cluster Server to provide a complete solution for online storage management, reduce planned and unplanned downtime, facilitate server consolidation, and effectively manage a wide range of applications. Storage Foundation's dynamic multi-pathing solution allows for a high level of reliability at the network path level, scaling performance for critical applications by combining multiple iSCSI HBAs (host bus adapters).