Data Domain OpenStorage Software: Optimized Integration With Symantec Veritas NetBackup

Symantec Veritas NetBackup (NBU) is one of the most pervasive data management tools used in medium to large size data centers across the world. It is a critical component of users' backup, recovery, and disaster preparedness strategies. NBU directs the operation of disk and tape media that stores typically five times more data than what can be found on the primary storage in the same data center. As data continues to grow unabated and as more attention is focused on a company's ability to recover from a disaster, new replication and disaster recovery (DR) solutions enabled by deduplication are becoming mandatory in many data management approaches.

The improved disaster recovery solutions must have a foundation of simplicity and flexibility and allow NetBackup administrators to easily manage and take full advantage of new capabilities in intelligent disk-based storage systems. Unfortunately, previous attempts have only focused on improving speed and reliability of backups, not improved DR.