Whats New in Veritas Backup Exec TM 21

What’s New in Veritas Backup Exec TM 21 Data Protection as it should BE. Simple, Secure, Unified! Just BE

Backup Exec 21 • Release Codename: Phuket • Key milestones: – Internal Validation: 6 to 27 January – Beta Program: 10 February to 2 March – General Availability (GA): April 6, 2020 • VEMS Portal and Download Center – ZIP file of updated install ISO: 6 April • Veritas Update: Not available 2 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC. Support is available for upgrades to BE 21 from BE 15, 16 and 20

Release Contents for BE 21 New Content • Instance-based Licensing • Deduplication Upgrade • Ransomware Resilience • Two-Factor Authentication • VEMS Call Home • Registry Rebranding • 3 rd Party Component Upgrades • BEMA v 3 3 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC. Proliferations • Windows Server 2019 H 2 & Windows 10 H 2 • Red. Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 7, 8 & 8. 1 (without AOFO) • Oracle Linux 8 & 8. 1 • Cent. OS 6. 10 & 7. 7 (x 64) • SLES 12 SP 4 & 15 SP 1 • Debian 10. 0 (x 64) • New cloud region support: Google Cloud-Seoul • EV 12. 5

Overview

Veritas Backup Exec Simple, Secure, Unified! for Virtual, Physical and Cloud environments “Simply the best backup and recovery solution, with top platform support and easy management at a good price” PC Pro Magazine, September 2019 6 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

BE 21 – April 6 th Highlight Summary Security Journey to Cloud 2 Factor Authentication Google Cloud-Seoul Ransomware Resilience (v 2) Integrates with Azure Site Recovery. DRaa. S GDPR Guard AWS Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive Payment Card Industry and TLS 1. 2 security compliance Dedup to Cloud Azure Archive Encryption in flight and at rest 7 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies AWS One Zone-IA and Intelligent Tier Performance Improvements More Bronze, Silver, Gold Global FETB and Per Deduplication DD 12 Instance BE Accelerator - Forever Incremental Windows Server 2019 version H 2 Resilient Change Tracking for Hyper. V RHEL and Oracle Linux 8/8. 1 Change Block VEMS Call Home Tracking for VMware Veritas Saa. S Backup Reporting Integration Instant GRT

Backup Exec 21 – Beta Feedback • “I had a great awesome experience with Backup Exec 21 beta so far. The installation was swift and I had it up and running in less than 20 minutes. ” • “With the latest features, Backup Exec is delivering the confidence to business that they can recover from a ransomware attack. I’m really impressed by the breadth of features being delivered with the upcoming version, multi-cloud capabilities, disaster recovery to the cloud, an accelerator faster backups. ” • “I mean you are delivering the next generation data protection experience with Backup Exec 21. ” 8 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

Licensing

Licensing Options – Subscription, Perpetual and Per Instance B/S/G can NOT be combined with other License options Custom Edition (à la carte) is available 12, 24, 36 month terms 10 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

Per Instance License • A universal metric across physical, virtual and cloud workloads • Each workload is treated equally and consumes one instance per license • ONLY Available for Bronze, Silver and Gold Editions in bundles of 10 instances ONLY Workloads to be Counted Instances Backup Exec Server 3 Agent for Windows 15 Agent for Linux and Unix 5 Agent for Applications and Databases 3 Agent for Remote Media for Linux Servers 1 27 Total 11 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC. 27 Instances Customer required to buy 3 Bundles of 10 instances

Allocating Instances Available licenses (Instance or FETB) can be Allocated to multiple Backup Exec

Tiers, Capacity/Capacity Lite Editions (End of Sale) • • Shorten sales cycle Reduce SKUs by 60% Capacity to Gold Capacity Gold 1 Front-end TB = 1 Front-end TB Deduplication Option Library Expansion Option (LEO) Unlimited physical and virtual drive Agent for Remote Media for Linux Servers Capacity 1 Gold FEATURES Backup Exec Server Capacity Lite to Silver Capacity Lite Silver 1 Front-end TB = 1 Front-end TB Agent for Applications and Databases Agent for Linux and Unix FEATURES Backup Exec Server Agent for Windows Agent for VMware & Hyper-V Deduplication Option Library Expansion Option (LEO) Capacity Lite 1 13 Agent for Windows Up to 4 physical or virtual tape drives Silver Agent for VMware & Hyper-V Agent for Applications and Databases Agent for Linux and Unix VTL Unlimited Drive Option (VUDO) Enterprise Server Option NDMP Option Bundle (License + Maintenance) 2, 341. 92 2, 091. 00 Bundle (License + Maintenance) 3, 690. 00 2, 890. 50 Renewal 437. 92 Renewal 690. 00 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

Automatic License Download If an Entitlement ID is entered and the server has an internet connection: • Next button will prompt for VEMS credentials • If VEMS credentials are verified • SLF will automatically be downloaded and imported Remove Entitlement <Click Next to download the license file> to prevent VEMS credentials prompt 14 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

VEMS Call Home – auto sync 1. Backup Exec will periodically check for updates 2. If License available, it will download and install 3. Information alert raised on install 15 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

Supported Upgrades BE 21 BE 15 BE 16 BE 20 BE 21 CAS can only communicate with BE 20. x MBES Backup Exec Migration Assistant (BEMA) v 3 BE 16 or older MBES not supported supports migration to BE 21 16 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

Security

Ransomware Resilience To Pay or Not to Pay Protects data on disc-based storage from Ransomware attacks in two ways: • Allows only trusted Backup Exec processes to write to disc-based storage (introduced in Backup Exec 20. 4) • Prevents external code from executing Backup Exec processes (introduced in Backup Exec 21) 18 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

Storage Lockdown on by Default Enable/Disable logged in audit log and event log Requires

(2 FA)Two- Factor Authentication – Remote Admin If checkbox is marked then SSO is

Connecting with Single Sign-On RAC Connect window displays Single Sign -on (SSO) checkbox “Connect with the current user’s credentials” If SSO checkbox is marked then no credentials are required to connect 21 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

Deduplication Upgrade

Deduplication Upgrade Overview 23 BE 21 upgrades BE 20 from DD 10 to DD 12 and BE 16/15 from DD 7 to DD 10 then to DD 12 Converts existing deduplication storage to DD 12 New installations of Backup Exec include DD 12 Uses SHA-2 hash algorithm compared to MD 5 used in DD 10 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

Enterprise Server Option Secure Communications

Backup Exec Enterprise Server Option MBES Tape Cloud VTL Dedupe BE CAS MBES Active Directory Win Client VMware/Hyper-V Tape Cloud VTL Dedupe Multiple MBES Linux Client Oracle Citrix Server Protected Clients Agent for Linux Agent for Windows Agent for Linux Perfect for DR & Remote Offices spread across a Region and Scales effectively to ~ 150 MBES 25 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

Secure CAS-MBES Communications CAS and MBES use a Message. Q channel for communications All Message. Q data and communications are now encrypted using TLS/SSL communications SSL connections are established using Backup Exec certificates that are already available on the CAS and MBES Encrypted communications can be verified using a network sniffing tool such as Wire. Shark 26 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

Appendix

Backup Exec Promotions • Distribution Promo – extended • Competitive Upgrade – extended to April 2, 2021 – Bronze, Silver and Gold Perpetual & Subscription Editions (Per FETB and Per Instance) and V-Ray – 35% off End User Buy Price – 30+% off in Margin Builder – Competitive Upgrade SKUs - New Customers only • The New Veritas FY 21 Margin Builder discount for eligible resellers is: – 10% Registered – 15% Silver – 20% Gold – 25% Platinum (was previously 20% in Veritas FY 20) 28 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

PMC, Parter. Net, Sales Central 29 Copyright © 2020 Veritas Technologies, LLC.

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