Deduplication moves into the vault

July 9, 2009:Symantec has added deduplication capabilities to its NetBackup and Enterprise Vault management platforms, that will centrally managing native deduplication as well as third-party deduplication appliances.

Symantec’s Enterprise Vault moves messages, files and SharePoint content directly out of applications like Exchange, SharePoint and Windows file shares to adeduplicated archive – moving deduplication to the information source.

They promise the ability to deduplicate backups at the client, and centrally manage deduplication in the data centre and globally across remote offices.

A single interface to manage backups using any combination of integrated deduplication software and third-party deduplicated storage will be provided through Symantec's OpenStorage API.

NetBackup currently offers integrated, centralised management for third-party deduplicated storage from Data Domain, Quantum, Falconstor and EMC through the OpenStorage API

The latest version of NetBackup does single file restore for virtual machines for both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware, including vSphere, by allowing virtual machine information to be restored directly from disk or tape without using additional storage.

NetBackup PureDisk 6.6, scheduled to be available later this year, will improve storage efficiency by adding enhanced deduplication for backups of virtual server images

Backup Exec 2010, scheduled to be available later this year, will integrate deduplication (using NetBackup PureDisk technology) into both backup clients and Backup Exec media server.

Backup Exec will also add the OpenStorage API to manage third-party deduplication appliances.NetBackup 7, scheduled to be available in 2010, will integrate deduplication into the backup client and NetBackup media server.