Netapp announces NetApp NearStore Virtual Tape Library Integration

Network Appliance Inc has announced an industry first as it
collaborates with leading backup application vendors to integrate their
solutions with NetApp NearStore VTL Shadow Tape technology. The integration will
significantly accelerate and streamline enterprise data recovery, while
integrating seamlessly with users' current backup application catalog and tape
offsiting policies to provide customers with unmatched simplicity and ease of
management for their data backup, recovery, and protection processes. NetApp
NearStore VTL Shadow Tape technology will specifically integrate with Veritas
NetBackup, the market leading backup solution from Symantec. In addition to
NetBackup, NetApp Shadow Tape technology will also integrate with backup
technologies from BakBone, CommVault, and Syncsort.

Backup application-VTL integration (from NetApp and its
partners) will automate a recovery process that is currently manual, enabling
customers to instantaneously restore backup data from disk that has already been
written to physical tapes and shipped to off-site storage, all in a way that is
fully compatible with the backup application catalog. The open approach NetApp
is taking by working with leading backup application vendors will allow
customers to benefit from disk-to-disk backup technology without changing their
existing backup processes, dramatically simplifying customer adoption of D2D
backup technology into their enterprise backup environments. NetApp NearStore VTL
is a dedicated, enterprise-class storage appliance that emulates physical tape
libraries, stores large capacities of backup data on disk, and automatically
copies data to physical tape under backup application control within any open
systems storage environment. NearStore VTL is a disk-to-disk backup solution for
all open systems enterprise primary storage, including EMC, Hitachi, and IBM
storage environments. NetApp Shadow Tape technology on NearStore VTL
automatically caches backups onto disk, helping to achieve fast restores for
backups that have already been off-sited on physical tape while seamlessly
integrating within the management framework of integrated backup applications.
Shadow Tape increases the value of disk-to-disk backup by improving recovery
service levels and reducing management costs. Shadow Tape technology is
available now on the NearStore VTL600 and VTL1200.

Website: www.netapp.com/products/nearstore/nearstore-vtl.html.