Sun has released the BakBone NetVault Backup product with the NetVault Backup 7.4.5 media kit and hardcopy documentation in English. NetVault Backup 7.4.5 will support heterogeneous platforms (all SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS), UNIXR, Linux and Windows) in three different editions -- Workgroup, Datacenter and Enterprise. Multiple database plugins will be provided for hot backup (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Exchange and Lotus Notes), as will NDMP, different autoloader slot counts, multiple clients, multiple Smart clients and its Report Manager.

BakBone is a global provider of heterogeneous backup and recovery software solutions, and their NetVault product is a scalable and flexible software solution with Application Plug-in Modules to support leading database and messaging applications. BakBone NetVault is fully interoperable with the SunTM StorageTek portfolio and Solaris OS. BakBone was named Sun's storage partner of the year at the October 2006 Sun Forum event [17144].

Among the new features of this product are:

Cross-Platform data protection, Application Plugin Modules, Mulitple Platform Support, Data Encryption Module, VaultDR, Flexible Command Line Interface, Broad Media Management,Report Manager and Monitoring, NDMP Plugin Modules, Storage Device Integration, Enhanced Disk Backup, Breadth and Scalability, Policy-Based Job Management, User Level Access, Event Notification, Network Controllable Server Function, SmartClients, Dynamically Sharing Drives on a SAN and Backup Job Retry.

Sun will continue to provide Symantec (Veritas) and EMC (Legato) solutions and, with BakBone NetVault, is simply expanding its range of partnerships so as to afford customers as wide a range of proven choices as possible. All current product lines will be supported for the foreseeable future as customers make choices about technologies, vendors, options and their availability when and how they need them.

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