Tuesday, 10 October 2006

Symantec's NetBackup 6.0 Gets Gartner Nod

Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.0 has received the highest rating, in Gartner’s 'MarketScope: Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software, 2006'.
Gartner’s MarketScope report evaluates how vendors measure against criteria for the enterprise backup and recovery market. According to Gartner, vendors must be able to understand buyers’ wants and needs and translate those into products and services. It is also important that a vendor’s approach to product development and delivery emphasises differentiation, functionality, methodology, and feature set as they map to current and future requirements.

In Gartner’s MarketScope assessment vendors are evaluated against six criteria, market understanding, marketing strategy, offering (product) strategy, product/service, market responsiveness and track record, and marketing execution. Symantec was one of nine vendors evaluated for the report.