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SINGAPORE, Aug. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Veritas Technologies, a leader in multi-cloud data management, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has named it a Leader in Gartner's 2017 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions 1. Veritas has been a Leader 15 consecutive times and since the inception of the report in 19992. Click here to download the full report.

Gartner's evaluation criteria for vendors includes completeness of vision and ability to execute. As the backup and recovery market has hundreds of vendors, this report narrows the focus down to those that have a very strong presence worldwide in the upper-end midmarket and large-enterprise environments.

"We are again honored to be named a Leader in this year's Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions," said Mike Palmer, executive vice president and chief product officer, Veritas. "As data continues to grow and become more fragmented across clouds and virtual environments, organizations need great performance with integrated backup and recovery to help reduce risks and boost productivity-- and at the same time, minimize storage costs. We believe this achievement underscores our commitment to offer comprehensive integrated enterprise data management-- both on premises and in the cloud."

Key innovations continue to differentiate Veritas, including:

According to the report, "Leaders have the highest combined measures of Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. They also have the most comprehensive and scalable product portfolios. They have a proven track record of established market presence and financial performance. For vision, they are perceived in the industry as thought leaders, and have well-articulated plans for enhancing recovery capabilities, improving ease of deployment and administration, and increasing their scalability and product breadth."

1 Source: Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backupand Recovery Solutions, Dave Russell, Pushan Rinnen, Robert Rhame, July 31, 2017

2 Previous titles include Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances (2014-2015), Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software (2011-2013), Enterprise Backup and Restore Magic Quadrant (2001-2005), Enterprise Backup Vendor Magic Quadrant (1999-2000). In 2006 and 2008, Veritas Technologies was given a Positive and a Strong Positive designation in the MarketScope for Enterprise Backup/ Software. From 2005-2015, Veritas Technologies was known as Symantec.

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About Veritas Technologies

Veritas Technologies empowers businesses of all sizes to discover the truth in information -- their most important digital asset. Using the Veritas platform, customers can accelerate their digital transformation and solve pressing IT and business challenges including multi-cloud data management, data protection, storage optimization, compliance readiness and workload portability -- with no cloud vendor lock-in. Eighty-six percent of Fortune 500 companies rely on Veritas today to reveal data insights that drive competitive advantage. Learn more atwww.veritas.comor follow us on Twitter at @veritastechllc.

Forward-looking Statements:Any forward-looking indication of plans for products is preliminary and all future release dates are tentative and are subject to change at the sole discretion of Veritas. Any future release of the product or planned modifications to product capability, functionality, or feature are subject to ongoing evaluation by Veritas,may or may not be implemented, should not be considered firm commitments by Veritas,should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions, and may not be incorporated into any contract.

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Contacts

Belinda LimCorporate CommunicationsVeritas Technologies+65-6413-4306rel="nofollow">belinda.lim@veritas.com

Mizu Chitra / Marc LeeText100 Singapore+65-6603-9000rel="nofollow">veritas@text100.com.sg

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