Symantec Advocates Data Deduplication as Part of an Overall Backup Strategy

Symantec Advocates Data Deduplication as Part of an Overall Backup Strategy

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced enhancements to its NetBackup PureDisk data deduplication solution which will address critical requirements for today’s data center backup architectures. Enterprises struggling to meet backup windows seek new disk-based backup solutions that can integrate with their existing backup infrastructure. By leveraging PureDisk data deduplication as part of their overall backup strategy customers can dramatically reduce storage and bandwidth consumed from disk-based backups.

The ever-increasing use of disk as part of the backup process enables backup data to be online and available, and as such drives new requirements for security, high availability, and end-to-end reporting in today’s data protection environments. New capabilities planned for the forthcoming release of NetBackup PureDisk, which will be generally available in June 2007, address these requirements by including integration with Veritas Backup Reporter, improvements to storage availability and expanded security features for both enterprise customers and backup service providers.

“The dramatic advantages of the data deduplication provided by NetBackup PureDisk are enabling a consolidated approach to data protection, spanning from remote offices to core data centers,” said Matt Kixmoeller, senior director of product management for NetBackup at Symantec. “By integrating enterprise security, high availability and reporting capabilities into NetBackup PureDisk, our leading deduplication technology has an even more compelling value proposition for the most demanding data center and service provider environments.”

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