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| Barracuda Networks Offers Complete Data Deduplication Technology | |
| Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 01:51:00 PM | |
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Barracuda Networks Inc., today announced that the proven data deduplication technology used on-appliance with the Barracuda Backup Service has now been extended to the Barracuda Backup Agent, a lightweight software-based client side application, ensuring that more customers benefit from the increased storage savings using data deduplication. Applying block-level deduplication inline, the Barracuda Backup Service can yield reductions in backup storage requirements between 20 and 50 times over what is required for traditional backup or snapshot technologies, effectively enabling customers to reduce backup windows and bandwidth requirements. “While traditional disk-to-data snapshot technology eliminates the complexity of restoring full and incremental backups, it often carries a large price tag due to the associated storage requirements,” said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda Networks. “Barracuda Networks complete data deduplication technology represents the best possible scenario in that it delivers the convenience of snapshots without the storage overhead.” The Barracuda Backup Service, which includes an onsite appliance and offsite cloud-based backup and storage, intelligently and specifically targets only the data that is new, or that has changed during the previous backup runs, and uses aggressive data deduplication techniques to reduce the storage footprint of data added to the backup archive. The Barracuda Backup Server combined with the Barracuda Backup Agent enables more frequent backups and reduces the file transfer requirements for backups by analyzing source data, isolating new transactions at the bit level and only copying, transferring and archiving new bit sequences. This advanced data deduplication technology is applied within the revision history of a single file or data set as well as across the entire backup volume. The Barracuda Backup Agent natively backs up data from Windows systems, such as, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Windows System State. |