Last week Symantec launched the first NetBackup hardware appliance called the NetBackup 5000. There are plenty of data sheets, presentations and webcasts but if you're a gadget geek you probably just want the quick run down on specs.
At a higher level, the NBU 5000 has:
- 16TB capacity extensible to 96 TB through a multi-node configuration
- A less than 20 minute setup time per node
- Tape integration via NetBackup + built in replication for tapeless DR
- Compatibility with both NetBackup 6.5 and 7.0 environments
Basically you can buy 1 of these 4U boxes that holds 24 1 TB hard drives and send de-dupe data to it as a NBU Storage Unit in your existing environment OR you can take NetBackup PureDisk Clients and send data directly to the 5000 without going through a media server. If you run out of room or need more space you can buy another another up to a total of 6 which would give you 96TB (6 x 16TB in each of them). And best of all the de-dupe works across ALL of the appliances even as you keep adding new ones. It's something called global de-duplication.
And now for the rear:
