Integrated Deduplication (using Veritas NetBackup PureDisk technology)

Backup Exec’s new Deduplication Option provides an integrated and customizable depulication offerings to optimize any backup strategy: client deduplication (deduplicates data at source or remote server), media server deduplication (deduplicates data at media server), appliance deduplication (integrates with OpenStorage deduplication appliances) or a deduplicated backup set copy (deduplicate data from remote offices to headquarters).

• Save time and storage costs
• Minimize backup Windows
• Operational simplicity fully integrated into Backup Exec
• Easily adaptable to your environment

Unified Archiving (powered by Symantec Enterprise Vault)

Backup Exec NEW Archive Options provide unified backup and archiving for File and Exchange environments by uniquely archiving data from the backup copy rather than separately pulling data from the source. The archive option will provide administrators with the ability reduce redundant data from the Exchange or Files server source to free up storage space. Overall administrators will be able to easily index data and set retention periods to efficiently manage data lifecycles.

• Easily automate savings
• Consolidate your data
• Reduce backup management resources
• Improves backup & recovery times
• Optimize Exchange and file server performance
• Keep storage at predictable levels

Enhanced VMware vSphere 4.0 Support

Integrated backup and deduplication support for both online and offline VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 and vSphere 4.0 - plus new first-to-market virtual application protection for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and Active Directory. Now from a single-pass backup, administrators will also experience automated Log Truncation of a virtual machine applications. From that single backup, administrators can then easily recover either the virtual machine or granular application data such as Exchange mailboxes, messages, calendar items or individual Active Directory user accounts or objects

• First-to-market granular recovery for applications
• Rapid Exchange and Active Directory backup and recovery
• Eliminate redundant backups and recover data in minutes
• Protect the latest VMware vSphere environments
• Deduplicate virtual server backups
• Reduce and consolidate storage

Enhanced Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 Support

Integrated backup and deduplication support for both online and offline Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 and Hyper-V 2008 R2 environments - plus new first-to-market virtual application protection for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and Active Directory. Now from a single-pass backup, administrators will experience automated Log Truncation of a virtual machine applications. From that single backup, administrators can then easily recover either the virtual machine or granular application data such as Exchange mailboxes, messages, calendar items, and individual Active Directory user accounts or objects.

• First-to-market granular recovery for applications
• Rapid Exchange and Active Directory backup and recovery
• Eliminate redundant backups and recover data in minutes
• Protect the latest Hyper-V and Hyper-V R2 environments including LiveMigration
• Deduplicate guest machine backups
• Reduce and consolidate storage

Windows 7, Exchange 2010 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Support

Comprehensive protection for the latest Windows desktop, email and server environments. Get the latest backup support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 including VSS Express Writers, plus redirected restore support to .VHD files for simple protection of virtual disk data alongside of traditional physical disk data. Integrated Exchange 2010 support for the new Database Availability Group (DAG) in Exchange 2010 and enhanced granular recovery support provides fast recovery of individual email and mailboxes while eliminating the need to perform an additional mailbox-level backup.

• Backup the latest Windows desktop and server and email application environments with ease
• Easily meet your recovery point objectives for Exchange with unmatched backup technology
• Reduce your Exchange 2010 backup requirements
• Manage your desktop and server backups through a single console

Enhanced Agent for Enterprise Vault

Automated backup and recovery of Enterprise Vault 8 SP2 (or later) infrastructures with the ability to configure a single job to protect the entire Enterprise Vault infrastructure and easily recover an Enterprise Vault Site or individual indexes. The Agent for Enterprise Vault will also Integrate with the Enterprise Vault Migrator to provide archived data migration to Backup Exec tapes which is easily managed and controlled via the Enterprise Vault administration interface.

• Simple and flexible backup protection for some or all of an Enterprise Vault infrastructure
• Recover all aspects of the Enterprise Vault infrastructure, from entire installations to individual index files
• New migration simplicity for migrating Enterprise Vault data to tape or a B2D folder for long-term retention
• Automatically recover data that has been migrated to tape

Lotus Domino 8.5 Support

Support for the latest Lotus Domino 8.5 email environments including support for :

• Domino Attachment and Object Store (DAOS)
• Ability to restore individual Domino NLO (DAOS attachments) from a database-level backup
• 32-bit Domino installations running in a 64-bit Windows environment in order to allow for more flexible Domino environments

Plus an improved restore browse view including new Lotus Domino specific nodes which simplifies the backup selection process.

• Protection for the latest shipping version of Lotus Domino
• Provides backup and recovery of the DAOS store and associated NLO files
• Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Lotus Domino