The Veritas Flex 5340 is an Information-Defined appliance that delivers a range of solutions on-demand including data protection and tiering to public and private clouds. The Flex appliance simplifies IT by combining multiple on-demand data protection application instances into a single, integrated solution. Organizations often must support multiple deployments of servers for backup, data reduction and cloud tiering to meet differing requirements from multiple business and functional organizations. The Flex Appliance, utilizing Information-Defined application instances, has the versatility to consolidate multiple Veritas NetBackupTM deployments into a single resilient, and scalable solution. With this architecture, a single Flex 5340 Appliance enables on-demand deployment and easy configuration of multiple NetBackup and NetBackup Cloud CatalystTM configurations-reducing costs and complexity.