Veritas has gone live with NetBackup 9.0, a major release of its flagship data protection software. Enhancements include scale-out and hyperconverged ‘Flex Scale’ nodes, simpler operations, and OpenStack integration.
“The best strategy for businesses that want to embrace hyperconverged architectures is to standardise on a single data protection platform,” Deepak Mohan, Veritas EVP, said:
“Veritas NetBackup 9 with Flex Scale gives customers freedom of choice with the most flexible deployment models in the industry today by empowering them to protect over 800 workloads in a scale-out, scale-up, or cloud storage model.”
Now for an analyst quote – from Ashish Nadkarni, group VP at IDC. “With Veritas’s heritage of providing enterprise-class data protection, enterprises can now consume software-defined NetBackup in the cloud, as BYOS [build your own server] and purpose-built appliances, and now in a new, hyper-converged scale-out deployment mode – giving customers the breadth of diverse workload coverage – all from a single platform.”
New features
Flex Scale is NetBackup deployed in hyperconverged nodes that scale out in line with evolving backup needs. This complements two other deployment options.
- NetBackup – in the cloud, on build your own server (BYOS), purpose-built appliances and virtual appliances
- NetBackup Flex – secure, multi-tenant containerised deployment.
HPE and Veritas have jointly developed a certified and Veritas-branded Flex Scale system, using HPE ProLiant servers and NetBackup software.
Veritas says NetBackup 9.0 is simpler to operate. New features include:
- Policy-driven automation to manage provisioning, scaling, load-balancing, cloud integration and recovery operations,
- Auto-discovery of workloads to improve data protection services and eliminate protection gaps,
- API-first focus for integrations into existing toolchains and cloud-based workflows,
- Simplified data protection for OpenStack.
The OpenStack additions use native APIs to provide integration, multi-tenant controls, and self-service management on-premises and in public clouds.
NetBackup 9 is available now.
