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NetVault^®: SmartDisk

Next Generation Disk-Based Data Protection

NetVault: SmartDisk takes disk-based backup and data deduplication to new levels of cost savings. Combining a state of the art capability to squeeze more data on disk and not requiring specific types of storage drives or appliances drives expenses down significantly. With NetVault: SmartDisk and its tight integration with NetVault: Backup, organizations of all sizes can perform deduplicated backups without requiring a high level of storage expertise or distracting administrators from strategic initiatives.

Reduces Storage Costs

NetVault: SmartDisk reduces storage costs with its byte-level variable block software based deduplication option which packs up to 12 times more protected data into the same storage area with the ability to analyze smaller amounts of data. This avoids the problem that occurs when fixed blocks mask changes and store duplicate data as unique.
NetVault: SmartDisk is hardware agnostic and works on most file systems, so hardware costs are reduced by using the existing storage infrastructure instead of needing to acquire specific drives or appliances. The ability to easily add additional file system paths to NetVault: SmartDisk Storage Pools reduces costs by deferring storage expenditures into new budget periods and also ensures that storage does not sit unused.
Data stored in NetVault: SmartDisk can have individual retention policies giving administrators the flexibility to store the most recent copies on disk while enabling older data to be moved offsite or to less expensive storage. This provides a foundation for Life Cycle Management which further reduces costs with tiered storage deployments.
Seamless integration with NetVault: Backup speeds deployment while simplified ease-of-use reduces the level of storage expertise required to perform deduplicated disk-based backups.

Minimizes Backup Windows

NetVault: SmartDisk’s post-process deduplication option can be scheduled outside the backup window to shrink backup windows with no additional impact on protected server resources.
NetVault: SmartDisk’s integration with NetVault: Backup’s job-level deduplication enables users to separate deduplicated from non-deduplicated data to ensure the best deduplication ratios and performance.
When combined with NetVault: Backup’s job-level encryption, the primary copy can be deduplicated while encryption can be performed only on the secondary copy that is stored offsite.
Secondary copies can also be performed outside the backup window while still maintaining strict security standards.

Maximizes Flexibility

Administrators are able to deploy multiple NetVault: SmartDisk Instances to distribute network, disk and deduplication resources to improve load balancing and performance.
Shared storage support provides the ability to share disk-based backup storage across heterogeneous platforms to provide a single data protection solution.
Data movement support improves business continuity by providing the ability for users to copy/move data between NetVault: SmartDisk Instances, to VTL or tape based devices in order to place redundant backups in offsite locations for failover and disaster recovery purposes.

System Requirements

Supported Platforms:	Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X
Review detailed system requirements at: /compatibility

NetVault: SmartDisk’s ability to share disk-based backup storage across heterogeneous platforms eases administrator workloads by providing a single data protection solution.

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