Did you know that over 750+ customers wanted NetBackup 7.1 before it even went GA? Why did so many customers want to try the newest release of NetBackup? Symantec NetBackup provides a fast path to the virtual data center that customers want to build.

One innovation offered in 7.1 was Auto Image Replication. Auto Image Replication allows you to copy data between backup domains in an optimized fashion allowing customers to simplify their disaster recover strategies. Auto Image Replication is accomplished via our Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLP) which allow you to define a complex backup copy and retention pattern for your backup while keeping it simple for administrators.

Once you start using these advanced strategies for creating multiple copies of data you have to know your data is protected and all the copies are made in all the locations you have selected in your SLP. This is where our solution shines as NetBackup has integrated reporting in OpsCenter which allows...

There are a number of deduplication solutions from various vendors available for you to choose from. There are plenty of discussions about various kinds of deduplication solutions and how those help to reduce the amount of secondary storage required for backups. In a series of blogs titled The power of NetBackup deduplication, we looked at various aspects of NetBackup deduplication and elaborated on how NetBackup provides a powerful, global, flexible and application aware deduplication technology which stands out from the crowd. The availability of appliance form factor for NetBackup deduplication made it a very popular turnkey solution for enterprise. However we didn’t really say anything about one of the most important decision factor when you are shopping for dedupe, how much does it really cost to implement and maintain a...

Deduplication makes disk-based data protection an economically viable and important part of an overall data protection strategy. Unfortunately, EMC customers quickly learn that there is a significant tax burden to bear  for deploying Data Domain deduplication. As a result, EMC is found wanting when it comes to saving organizations money by using deduplication. EMC should change its licensing model.

EMC should repeal the replication tax. Today, if organizations want to replicate a backup set offsite to another appliance as part of their disaster recovery strategy, they must pay for replication licenses to store that secondary copy. Customers replicating with Data Domain would also need to buy 2X other software license options such as Boost. EMC should stop charging their customers every time they want to make a copy of the deduped data.

EMC should stop charging twice for client-side dedupe. Many organizations want the...

In the previous blog in this series (see links below) on Power of NetBackup Deduplication, we talked about two special powers of NetBackup deduplication, viz. how dedupe processing can be distributed and how backups are securely streamed. Now let us talk about two more exciting differentiators. 

Application aware deduplication

The technology in NetBackup Appliances for data reduction is NetBackup Deduplication.  Unlike third party vendor solutions where all backup streams are treated the same way in an effort to identify duplicate data with excessive processing overhead, NetBackup Deduplication understands the backup streams. NetBackup Deduplication uses the normalized stream to identify data type, detect file boundaries and does deduplication with less resource overhead. For example, a backup stream from a NetApp filer coming in ufsdump (NDMP backup) format is identified using a deduplication stream handler that can individually process the file objects...