"They're really trying to separate the hardware from the software, so that you don't have to care what the hardware is behind the scenes," McAdam says. "The software will make it work... That's pretty cool."
This heterogeneous server recovery allows companies to do more than enable the effective and effortless restoration of data, says Bob Maness, Veritas's senior director of product marketing. The software also gives companies a way to automate the migration of data from one server to another. "You could actually migrate your data in a much more automated way," he says. "And you can be confident that it will work."
McAdam says she's not aware of any other companies offering restore software for heterogeneous server environments, but she says other software vendors are bound to follow the Veritas example.
Bare Metal Restore 4.6 also offers a browser-based interface for IBM AIX, HP-UX, Microsoft Windows, and Sun Solaris server recovery and enables general restore capabilities like specific point-in-time recovery of data. This, Veritas says, allows data center administrators to go back to earlier versions of the data, in case the last backup has become corrupt or been infected by a virus.
Every time Veritas's NetBackup software backs up data from the server, it automatically triggers the Bare Metal Restore software to make a point-in-time copy, according to Shawn Aquino, senior product marketing manager for Bare Metal Restore. "This is triggered without user intervention," he says.
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