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Follow UsTo support this platform, NetBackup 6.5 introduces new features and enhancements including native disk-based backup, data deduplication, deep integration with intelligent backup appliances and VTLs, heterogeneous snapshot management, granular recovery for critical applications and virtual machines, licensing and pricing programs.
NetBackup platform delivers NGN data protection
Symantec has unified its enterprise data protection technologies into a single flagship offering — the NetBackup platform, a single solution for centralized, end-to-end management of heterogeneous data protection technologies. Many enterprises are interested in deploying next-generation data protection technologies, but have been reluctant to do so because of the complexity introduced by numerous disparate point products – each with their own agents, policies, schedulers, recovery processes, user interfaces and reporting tools.
With the NetBackup platform, enterprises get the best of both worlds: unprecedented choice and flexibility to select best-of-breed technologies in replication, snapshots, CDP, data deduplication, encryption, virtual tape and traditional tape – either from Symantec or leading third-party storage vendors.
In addition, the NetBackup platform provides a single tool to manage all these various vendors and technologies, which means a single approach to agents, policy management, recovery processes, security, backup reporting and the data catalog.
By deploying the NetBackup platform, enterprises can reduce data loss, operating costs, backup windows, recovery time and the data footprint for backup operations while enhancing manageability and their confidence in meeting internal and external compliance requirements. The NetBackup platform is differentiated in a number of key respects from its competitors.
Rather than offering separate, isolated tools to enable advanced new capabilities like data deduplication, enterprise reporting, disk backup, and CDP, NetBackup integrates and delivers all these features as part of NetBackup. Second, in addition to these native, integrated capabilities, the NetBackup platform is unmatched in its broad support for managing and controlling a wide variety of advanced data protection technologies from third party vendors.
Disk-Based backup technologies improve backup operations
As the cost of high capacity disk continues to fall, more storage professionals are leveraging disk as a core element of their enterprise protection strategy to improve backup operations, speed recovery and shrink backup windows. NetBackup 6.5 features four new capabilities that allow users to take full advantage of the power of disk-based data protection:
·Native data deduplication that can be leveraged by the entire NetBackup environment extending from desktops and laptops, to remote office servers, to enterprise data centers
·Native disk backup capabilities which enable pooling, sharing and backup over the SAN to a large pool of shared disk
·Deep integration with intelligent backup appliances and VTLs
.Heterogeneous snapshot and CDP management
With its PureDisk Deduplication Option, NetBackup 6.5 integrates Symantec’s PureDisk deduplication technology into the core of NetBackup to ensure that redundant backup information is only stored once across the entire enterprise backup environment, consolidating desktops and laptops, remote offices and data centers.
This global approach to deduplication has commonly yielded 50-500X data deduplication rates when compared to traditional backup methods. In addition, the new Flexible Disk Option enables backup administrators to perform high speed SAN backup to a disk pool shared by the entire backup environment. This speeds performance and also delivers better utilization of both the network and the storage.
For customers deploying intelligent backup appliances and VTLs, NetBackup 6.5 delivers deep integration and powerful management capabilities. Virtual Tape Option enhances the performance and manageability of virtual tape devices by copying data directly from the VTL to tape, using a process that is controlled by NetBackup in a catalog-consistent manner.
NetBackup integration with such intelligent backup appliances is even further enhanced through the OpenStorage Option, which leverages Symantec’s innovative OpenStorage API, allowing intelligent backup appliances to integrate natively with NetBackup.
An industry first, the OpenStorage API enables NetBackup to treat these devices as disk, enabling users to take full advantage of the performance and features offered by disk while at the same time relying on NetBackup as the single interface to control and manage these advanced capabilities.
Announced in late 2006, the OpenStorage program demonstrates Symantec’s commitment to offer the industry’s deepest integration with intelligent disk devices and has garnered support from nearly every major vendor of intelligent backup devices.
“Our effort has been to offer ground breaking solutions in the security and availability domains”; said Rick Huebsch, VP, Netbackup, Symantec Corp. “Disk is fundamentally changing the data protection landscape. Now with NetBackup 6.5 we provide single integrated platform for disk based protection and data deduplication. NetBackup 6.5 gets integrated into the user’s environment and customizes backup and recovery according to the application needs”.
Advanced recovery for virtual machines and enterprise applications improve recovery time
Responding to the growing popularity of virtual machines and the challenges associated with backing up those environments, NetBackup 6.5 delivers a comprehensive solution for VMware protection, providing consolidated backup, granular file-level and image-level recovery from a single backup, and deduplication for VMware backups.
NetBackup leverages VMware Consolidated Backup, a capability provided by VMware, to guarantee consistency and remove the backup burden from the primary VMware server host.
NetBackup 6.5 also goes a step further, by introducing a breakthrough capability to enable a single image-level backup to deliver both full-image or granular file-level recovery. Finally, VMware backups can be performed to tape or disk, and can apply the new PureDisk Deduplication Option for deduplication and replication of VMware backups.
This comprehensive approach enables fast, low-impact VMware backups and data deduplication, and at the same time delivers unprecedented flexibility to restore the entire virtual machine or individual files, all through a single backup process.
NetBackup 6.5 improves recovery time for many key enterprise applications by offering granular recovery of files and objects to allow businesses to get up and running fast in the wake of an outage. For Microsoft SharePoint environments, NetBackup 6.5 offers database and document-level recovery from the same backup, eliminating the need for multiple backups of the same system.
For Microsoft Exchange environments, NetBackup provides an instant recovery feature that enables administrators to recover from a disk-based snapshot, enabling faster recovery and minimizing disruptions.
Capacity-Based pricing model offers increased flexibility
Responding to growing customer interest in aligning their purchasing model for data protection software with their approach to storage hardware procurement, Symantec has introduced the industry’s first capacity-based pricing option for an enterprise data protection software offering.
With NetBackup 6.5, customers now have the choice of licensing NetBackup infrastructure on a capacity-based model (based upon the total amount of data being protected) or continuing to use the traditional per-server model.
In addition, customers that remain on the traditional server-based pricing approach will benefit from a dramatically simplified pricing structure in which dozens of clients, agents and modules are now grouped into three easy-to-order options.
Symantec has also included some advanced features (such as heterogeneous bare metal restore), which previously were separately priced options, and incorporated them into the standard NetBackup client at no additional fee.