By John Mark V. Tuazon
Computerworld Philippines
June 28, 2010

Security, storage, and systems management solution vendor Symantec recently made good on its promise to deliver “deduplication everywhere” with the release of the seventh iteration of its end-to-end information management solution, NetBackup 7.

The new version, released February this year, will not only enable backup, protection, and deduplication of physical servers, but virtual ones as well.

This is achieved by leveraging the software’s deduplication and incremental backup technology within virtual environments, which makes retrieval of blocks or individual files faster, answering CIOs’ perennial concern of granular recovery within virtual machine image backups.

The same method likewise speeds up the backup of virtual images and reduces capacity needs for backups by up to 95%, the vendor said.

“NetBackup 7 helps organizations address [IT] challenges by protecting both physical and virtual servers with one solution, reducing storage through deduplication and providing lightning fast recovery speeds,” explained Luichi Robles, country manager, Symantec Philippines.

Likewise, and in answer to its deduplication everywhere strategy, Symantec hopes to simplify information management among data centers by integrating deduplication systems at the client, media server, and even on third party appliances, reducing not only capacity needs and network traffic but overall costs as well.

Symantec is also pioneering an open system for deduplication, dubbed OpenStorage Technology (OST) program, which enables firms to use third party deduplication hardware in conjunction with NetBackup.

Through this, firms now have a choice to use deduplication appliances from Data Domain, Quantum, ExaGrid Systems, and FalconStor, among others.

Additionally, the new NetBackup version introduces a central management system which gives administrators a single view of their backup and recovery operation, through a management console called OpsCenter. “Organizations can also leverage advanced analytical features and report on third party backup products using OpsCenter Analytics,” the vendor added.

Symantec last year started the crusade to stop companies from buying storage and use the current ones they have, in an effort to cut costs and reduce complexities of storage systems. This “deduplication everywhere” strategy enables realization of ROY or “Return on Yesterday” by getting more juice out of already existing investments.

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