Symantec unveils NetBackup 7

Security company Symantec has rolled out NetBackup 7 for enterprises to protect, store, and recover information via a single, unified platform.

According to the Symantec 2010 State of the Data Centre study, mid-sized enterprises are turning to cloud computing, deduplication, replication, virtualisation, and continuous data protection to reduce IT costs and manage increasing complexity.

Stephen Stange, Symantec senior manager of product management, says: “Some of the biggest challenges enterprises are facing are exponential data growth rate, the increased demand for more storage and backup, coupled with slashed IT budgets.”

NetBackup 7 enables organisations to simplify information management while reducing data stores and network traffic by integrating deduplication across the organisation; whether the data is stored at the client, media server, or on third-party hardware appliances.

Stange points out that managing backup within the virtualisation environment has become a priority for IT administrators. He explains that NetBackup provides backup for both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere virtual machines.

“NetBackup increases the speed and efficiency of backups in remote offices, data centres, and virtual environments, and reduces network traffic by up to 90%,” notes Stange.

Symantec also revealed that NetBackup 7 has introduced a built-in reporting and management console called OpsCenter. This new console standardises monitoring and reporting of both backup and archive information for Symantec products including NetBackup, NetBackup PureDisk, Backup Exec, and Enterprise Vault.

Mark Dijkstra, storage and availability specialist at Symantec, says IT administrators are making backup and recovery a high priority in 2010. “NetBackup 7 helps organisations address those challenges by protecting both physical and virtual servers with one solution.”