The merger of Symantec and VERITAS in 2005 has brought together the industry's leading providers of information security and availability products, opening up new opportunities to help customers more effectively and efficiently manage and secure critical information assets.

Symantec Backup Exec (formally VERITAS) Software Corporation is headquartered in California, and employs more than 6,700 people in 40 countries. With annualized revenues over $1.75 billion in 2003, Symantec Software ranks among the top 10 software companies in the world. Through its award-winning and market-leading products focused on business efficiency and continuity, Symantec Software provides the building blocks for utility computing.

Networking Fundamentals supply, install and configure Symantec Backup Exec for Windows; this product backs up standard data and has agents for Exchange, SQL, Open File, Desktop & Laptop, and other applications, which enables Backup Exec to link directly to these applications and extract data whilst they are still on line.