Veritas NetBackup announced the integration of data de-duplication as part of the standard product on Jun 10, 2008. Now integrated with their continuous data protection technology this stands to be a very powerful combination. Plus the new offering will be part of the standard package where they were available as bolt-on products.

De-duplication is important for backup strategies because it can drastically reduce the amount of storage capacity required for full backups.

Check out To Dup or not to Dup during backup on this site for de-duplication information.

Also brought forward to the NetBackup product, found in their Backup Exec product, is their Granular Recovery Technology which eliminates redundant data for duplicate block-level backups. Check out a full account of this release on InfoStor : Symantic adds de-dup, CDP to NetBackup