Veritas Flex Appliances Product Review

This document is a product review of Veritas Flex Appliances conducted by The Futurum Group. It outlines the features and capabilities of the Flex Appliances, which are designed to integrate with Veritas NetBackup software for backup and recovery solutions. The review details the performance characteristics, including data deduplication rates and storage configurations, and highlights the appliances' ability to operate across various operating systems and applications. It describes the system architecture, emphasizing the use of Red Hat Linux-based Veritas Optimized Operating System (VxOS) and proprietary containerization software. The document also covers recovery and replication features, such as rapid restore capabilities and air-gapped recovery for ransomware protection. Additionally, it discusses data efficiency measures, including flexible deduplication methods and cloud tiering options. The review concludes with an evaluation methodology called EvaluScale, which assesses the appliances based on protection environment, advanced capabilities, cyber resiliency, and ability to execute.