Symantec refreshes backup and archive range

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 07 September 2010 08:00

Business IT - Technology

Symantec has beefed up its portfolio of data storage products with the NetBackup 5000 deduplication appliance, NetBackup Cloud Storage, and a new version of Enterprise Vault, including Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator.

Symantec's NetBackup 5000 is a deduplication appliance that can be set up in less than 20 minutes. It works with NetBackup to identify duplicate copies of data before backup, resulting in a 10-50 times reduction in storage and 99% reduction in bandwidth consumption, company officials claimed.

NetBackup 5000 includes support for virtual machines, allowing guest or image-level backup for VMware or Hyper-V, and the recovery of complete images or individual files.

The appliance is expected to ship in November.

NetBackup Cloud Storage builds on Symantec's OpenStorage API to allow backup and recovery to cloud storage services. NetBackup is immediately supported, while a connector for Backup Exec (typically used by smaller organisations) will be delivered later in the year.

Sean Regan, director of product marketing at Symantec's information management group, told iTWire that the company expects support from multiple major cloud storage providers, but the first partner is Nirvanix, which specialises in the enterprise market. The Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network comprises five nodes - three in the US, and one each in Germany and Japan.

"Cloud storage is becoming a reality," he said.

Please read on for information about Enterprise Vault 9.0.