Symantec has announced Backup Exec 15. This product will go into beta in the first quarter of 2015. Although no date has been specified.
One of the biggest changes is that Symantec has dropped 32-bit support for its Media Server. This means that your media server can only run on a 64-bit operating system.
This won’t be a big shock for the Microsoft Exchange community. Exchange Server has required a 64-bit media server for some time.
Whether Symantec will support a media server on Windows 2003 is left to be seen. My guess, sometime between the beta and general release, Symantec will make 2008 a minimum requirement. Especially with Server 2003 going end-of-life in less than 8 months.
The other big news—Cumulative Update 6—this version will officially add support for the latest release of Exchange 2013. Although by the time this goes beta, I expect CU7 to be released.
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