Netting Out NetBackup

George Crump recently wrote a post on Byte & Switch on source-side deduplication.  I thought an expansion on the topic would be useful given that George did not cover all the facts in his post.  Yes, I’m writing from a Symantec perspective, but my intention is to present a balanced and factual argument.

Do you have to switch backup applications for integrated deduplication?  NetBackup integrated its PureDisk deduplication engine into the NetBackup server to give customer the choice about how and where they perform deduplication.  As a result, there’s no need to replace the client on your existing machine if you’re already using NetBackup. 

Does switching to source-side deduplication...