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NetVault®: Backup

NetVault: Backup breaks the data protection mold by combining unsurpassed ease of use and advanced functionality, along with pain-free, scalability. This enables you to custom tailor NetVault: Backup to match the changing landscape of your organization’s IT infrastructure — without a rip and replace of what you’ve already deployed. But, don’t just take our word for it. Ask the thousands of people in small to medium enterprises as well as very large global companies who use NetVault: Backup to protect their organizations — not to mention their careers!

We understand that IT budgets are not unlimited — in fact, they are shrinking in many cases. NetVault: Backup was architected to protect and leverage your existing investments in data protection while making necessary changes and upgrades to support the growth and health of your organization.

The Power of Simplicity

With the power of simplicity you can easily become more proficient in backup and recovery — without losing ground in other more visible tasks. For example, with the powerful NetVault: Backup Application Plugin Modules you are not required to script backup and recovery jobs. You select the backup strategy that best fits your database or email environment and then just point and click. Who knew that backup and recovery of your organization’s most critical applications and databases could be so easy?

How about virtualization protection? No scripting required for that either. You don’t need to understand storage, database or email internals — yet you can become the “Virtualization or SQL Server or … backup specialist”.

NetVault: Backup protects your data and applications from a common console without distracting you from priority tasks that you need to do as well as the fun things you want to do. Plus, when that next promotion or appealing opportunity comes along, NetVault: Backup’s ease-of-use makes it that much simpler to have a new person step in to assume the data protection responsibilities. Basically, NetVault: Backup is enterprise level software that does not require you to be an expert. It installs out of the box, but has the flexibility so you can tune it as you want.

Maximizes Your Flexibility

Any form of vendor lock-in can be difficult because it can deprives you of the flexibility to make choices that otherwise would be best for your company and you. If an organizational merger takes place or a key department acquires a major application that requires a different platform, NetVault: Backup’s heterogeneous server and extensive application support make it a snap.

The freedom of choice does not end there.

With NetVault: Backup, the choice is yours!

Safeguard Your Investment

NetVault: Backup’s ability to efficiently scale from small installations to very large global companies means you won’t be penalized by being forced to rip and replace your data protection infrastructure just because your organization is successful and growing.

Your investment in storage systems is protected through automated access to hundreds of different storage devices. You avoid vendor lock-in by taking advantage of NetVault: Backup’s heterogeneous server support as well as powerful messaging, database and virtualization protection options.

With NetVault: Backup, you protect your vital IT assets because you can still recover your data even in a worst case scenario in which you only have your backup media, but no NetVault: Backup database. Plus, you can redeploy into a different OS for an emergency recovery. NetVault: Backup gives you the comfort that you made the right decision in protecting your organization’s valuable assets.


Disk-based Backup and Deduplication

NetVault: Backup’s seamless integration with the NetVault: SmartDisk’s disk-based backup product and its data deduplication option protects your storage investment with its powerful byte-level variable block-based software deduplication which packs up to 12 times more protected data into the same storage area. Hardware costs are reduced by giving you the choice to use existing storage infrastructure instead of requiring you to buy specific drives or appliances.

NetVault: SmartDisk shrinks backup windows with its post-process deduplication option which can be scheduled outside the backup window. Additionally, administrators have increased choice including the ability to copy/move data between NetVault: SmartDisk Instances, to VTL or tape based devices in order to place redundant backups in offsite locations for failover and disaster recovery purposes.

Application Protection

When combined with NetVault: Backup, Application Plugin Modules (APMs) are designed so you don’t have to be an expert to ensure continuous availability of business-critical applications such as Oracle, SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Lotus Notes/Domino Informix and Sybase. Native integration options offered by applications aren’t enough; NetVault: Backup APMs improve native options to reduce time-consuming integration efforts. With these improvements, you protect your application investments and help close the gap between corporate application recovery and database protection requirements.

Virtualization Protection

NetVault: Backup enhances efficiency by consolidating virtual machine protection to give users a simple centralized, backup and recovery of virtual and physical environments for either VMware or Hyper-V. Easy to deploy and use, NetVault: Backup Virtualization Plugins reduce complexity by enabling consistent, reliable point-and-click backup and restore activities without requiring you to be an expert.

Workstation Protection

NetVault: Backup Workstation Client expands NetVault: Backup enterprise-class data protection to workstations by protecting your investment in intellectual property stored on desktops and laptops using a shadowing process that creates local redundant copies to protect data against corruption and accidental deletion. Seamless integration with the NetVault: Backup Server protects the copies for long-term retention or disaster recovery. NetVault: Backup Workstation Client also maximizes IT staff efficiency by enabling end-user recovery of data from the Shadow Area without the assistance of the backup administrator.

Advanced Security

NetVault: Backup's Encryption Plugin provides CAST-128, AES-256 and CAST-256 algorithm support options to meet regulatory requirements without sacrificing backup windows or deduplication performance. When installed on the NetVault: Backup (NVBU) Client, the NVBU Encryption Plugin encrypts and transfers data across the network to the backup device, where it remains encrypted until restored to the NVBU Client. If encryption is only required for secondary storage, NetVault: Backup’s job-level encryption gives you the choice to encrypt only the secondary copy while the primary backup remains unencrypted to shrink the backup window. When using NetVault: SmartDisk’s deduplication, NetVault: Backup’s job-level deduplication also gives you the choice to separate deduplicated from non-deduplicated unencrypted data for optimal deduplication ratios and performance.

Network Attached Storage Protection

NetVault: Backup lets you choose how to backup your NAS. You can send NDMP data directly to a locally attached SCSI device, a SAN-attached storage device or to a storage device elsewhere on the network. NetVault: Backup offers advanced NDMP features such as Browsable Volume and Direct Access Restore (DAR) support, which speeds restores with fast positioning to the right section of the tape.

SmartClient

NetVault: Backup SmartClient gives you the freedom to attach storage wherever you like. Both virtual and physical tape libraries can be easily distributed throughout the backup environment. Backup data no longer needs to pass over the network and through a NetVault: Backup Server in order to be written to a tape-based device. SmartClients are an optimal solution for multiple clients with large amounts of data, or for remotely controlling backup operations of branch offices.

Dynamically Shared Devices

NetVault: Backup’s Dynamically Shared Device (DSD) technology enables stand-alone tape drives and/or tape drives in libraries to be dynamically shared among NetVault: Backup Clients in SAN and shared-SCSI environments. DSD optimizes backup data transfers while reducing the number of single points of failures.

Plugins

Ranging from disaster recovery to device integration to open file protection, NetVault: Backup plugins enhance and extend data protection capabilities.