Veritas NetBackup 9 Released

Today Veritas Technologies announced the launch of Veritas NetBackup 9. This is the first major update of the company’s backup and recovery suite in four years. Veritas states that this new update is set to provide customers with additional choices for deployment across edge, core, and cloud while increasing operational simplicity.

As stated, it was 2016 when the company released its 8.0 version. A lot has changed since then and the Veritas NetBackup 9 is said to be designed to tackle these changes. For one, many if not most companies are using a multi-cloud approach and need a backup solution to reflect this. Along these lines, Veritas is also addressing the need to scale to protect even more data with Flex Scale, a scale-out deployment option based on Veritas’ validated reference design. Veritas Flex Scale is said to provide a hyperconverged method of data protection while at the same time delivering cloud-like simplicity. This can be a boon to cost savings as well as it means no more overprovision at the forecast, but the ability to add nodes as the companies need to.

On the simplicity side of things, Veritas states that the new version of NetBackup is all about streamlining management through orchestrated automation of discovery, protection, and recovery. Other enhancements to add simplicity include:

Advanced, policy-driven automation to manage all aspects of deployment, provisioning, scaling, load-balancing, cloud integration, and recovery operations.
Auto-discovery of workloads to accelerate time-to-value for data protection services, eliminate gaps in protection and reduce risk.
An API-first focus that expands and deepens integrations into enterprises existing toolchains and cloud-based workflows.
Simplified enterprise data protection for mission-critical OpenStack environments.

Speaking of OpenStack, Veritas NetBackup 9 has enhancements surrounding OpenStack environments as well. The new version is said to deliver seamless integration, multi-tenant controls, and intuitive self-service management by leveraging OpenStack native APIs. Veritas goes on to state that several of the above benefits, simplicity of management, scalability, and cost-savings are extended to OpenStack Environments.

Availability

Veritas NetBackup 9 is available today.

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