To help businesses protect, store and recover information with greater efficiency and reliability through a single, unified platform, Symantec has announced NetBackup 7.  This solution enables organizations to simplify information management while reducing data stores and network traffic by integrating deduplication everywhere – 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 for fast, cost-effective disaster recovery.