NEW DELHI, INDIA: BakBone Software, a provider of universal data management solutions, announced the launch of version 8.5 of its flagship product, NetVault: Backup and new disk-based backup and deduplication options with NetVault: SmartDisk.

The latest advancement in the NetVault line, NetVault: SmartDisk is the first product delivery based on BakBone’s recently announced Open Data Protection Platform.

Andrew Martin, vice president APAC, BakBone Software said, “Unlike other data protection solutions, BakBone has built intelligence into one platform that extends the investment of users’ data protection environments with the ultimate goal of providing affordable and long-term disk-based storage."

In addition to NetVault: SmartDisk, the new version of NetVault: Backup introduces advanced security features, a new Hyper-V plugin and extended platform support:

BakBone also launched NetVault: Backup Hyper-V Plugin, which provides centralized backup and recovery of virtual and physical environments from a single console by consolidating virtual machine protection into a single NetVault: Backup environment.

It provides online protection of Windows-based virtual machines running VSS aware applications, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint Server. Ability to perform image-level backups for disaster recovery and Windows Guest OS file-level backups for faster file-level recovery.
 
BakBone also expanded its platform support for NetVault: Backup by adding support for Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Mac OS X Snow Leopard and several new mainstream Linux platforms.

NetVault: Bare Metal Recovery for the NetVault: Backup Server extends bare metal recovery to the NetVault: Backup Server for disaster recovery purposes.