There is a new technote entitled "Best Practices for using Storage Lifecycle Policies in NetBackup 6.5.3 and 6.5.4". This essential document, authored by engineering, support and product management, documents best practices, and is based on consolidated information obtained from real world experiences.

I snuck this screenshot out of the development labs for those people who have to see it to believe it.

Symantec is Deduplication

Most of you are probably aware that we released 6.5.4 NetBackup a few weeks ago. You can read all about it in the recent press release.

I mentioned this on twitter earlier today but wanted to follow it up with some additional commentary. Sometime 140 characters aren’t enough.

I am loving the new Ideas feature of Connect. If you haven't seen it, be sure and check out Peter's video explaining how it works.

Today's Links

 I usually don't trumpet the arrival of each new Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) that we post for NetBackup, but this one is special since we're annoucning support for Quantum's OST device which I blogged about a little while

My last post showed NetBackup Operations being displayed on a Nintendo Wii.