Symantec's latest release of NetBackup promises to reduce data stores and network traffic by integrating deduplication at the client, media server and on third party hardware appliances – thus reducing overall costs.

NetBackup also delivers complete virtual machine protection to increase backup and recovery speeds of data within virtual environments and adds new backup replication.

“IT administrators are making backup and recovery a high priority in 20101 to better manage growing data stores and reduce complexity as they add virtual servers into their IT environments,” said Brian Dye, vice president of product management for Enterprise Information Management, Symantec.

“NetBackup 7 helps organisations address those challenges by protecting both physical and virtual servers with one solution, reducing storage through deduplication and providing lightning fast recovery speeds.”

By integrating deduplication closer to the data source at the client, NetBackup increases the speed and efficiency of backups in remote offices, data centres and virtual environments and reduces network traffic by up to 90 percent.

Symantec NetBackup 7 is $US7,995 for an Enterprise Server and five client licenses.