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NetBackup 9.1 Competitive Advantages
Delivering immutable, indelible, unified data protection
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Article Summary

Veritas NetBackup™ 9.1 and the new Veritas NetBackup Flex Scale 2.1 hyperconverged, scale-out appliance offer superior scale-out
capabilities with lower operational expenses and overall total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to legacy scale-out competitors. If
there were any lingering doubts about choosing the best data protection scale-out vendor before, NetBackup Flex Scale 2.1 should help
eliminate them.

NetBackup Flex Scale 2.1 ‒ Advantages vs. the Legacy Scale-Out Solution

NetBackup Flex Scale Feature or Capability Business Value to Veritas Customers vs. Rubrik and Cohesity*

Deployment and operations Faster time-to-value. No complex manual cluster installation.

Simple, no-touch installs and configuration.

Enterprise-class performance With NetBackup deduplication capabilities working at maximum,

Delivers up to 2x faster backup performance than Rubrik and Flex scale can deliver close to a Peta Byte per hour backup
up to 5x faster performance than Cohesity. speed.

High-performance network connectivity with zero Patent-pending technology for low latency transport
production network overhead implementation helps extract twice the speed from the same
• 50% lower network latency than Cohesity and Rubrik network infrastructure compared to Cohesity and Rubrik.
• Complete internode data communication segregation Plus, cluster communication does not use resources from the
• from workload data communication production network, delivering more efficient scaling.

Optimum OpEx spend with multi-dimension scaling The scale-up appliance typically saves a lot on Power, Cooling,
• Start with a scale-up appliance for initial needs and Network while starting with a small footprint. Depending
• Add Flex Scale as the need for capacity grows in the • • on your needs, you can add a scale-out Flex Scale appliance to
• same deployment without having to rip off/rebuild cater to high growth workloads. Legacy scale-out vendors have
you drop 3-4 nodes every time you add a new Data Center.

Backup/restore prioritization NetBackup Flex Scale let you override machine intelligence
Customers have total control of backup and restore job with human intelligence, which Cohesity and Rubrik do not
prioritization. permit. This feature allows for better alignment with business
application needs.

Lower data center footprint at equivalent scale** NetBackup Flex Scale has relatively lower power, cooling, rack
• 2x lower power and cooling, 10% less floor space, space, and network requirements that reduce operational
• 4x lower network, 3x lower IP addresses than Cohesity expenses. Combining Flex and Flex Scale provides further
• 2x lower power and cooling, 10% less floor space, 3x lower savings on operating expenses and data center footprint.
• network, 3x lower IP addresses than Rubrik
Superior data recoverability Legacy scale-out solutions use open-source solutions for
Includes a multi-layered approach to help ensure backup metadata that are susceptible to corruption. Recovery from
infrastructure is quickly recoverable, providing peace of mind those failures involves reading backup images as well as
in the face of a disaster of any kind. metadata. This requirement can makes recovering backup
infrastructure increasingly difficult while increasing recovery
time and costs, especially relevant when recovering from the
cloud.

Superior operational performance Competitors’ legacy scale-out solutions are designed to give
Metadata operations are typically random, small size I/Os the same level of disk and node failure protection to metadata
with varying block sizes. NetBackup Flex Scale separates via erasure coding, which reduces metadata operation
metadata store placement from backup data to help avoid performance.
performance issues caused by erasure coding in small,
random I/O profiles.

NetBackup 9.1 ‒ Advantages vs. the Competition

NetBackup Feature or Capability Business Value to Veritas Customers vs. Rubrik and Cohesity*

Workload support NetBackup 9.1 helps eliminate point products and third-
Support for enterprise workloads with 800+ data sources. party software, reducing the attack surface and costs, while
increasing support for greater enterprise application flexibility.

Complete data protection with a single license No third-party complexities and dependencies or add-on costs
All-inclusive licensing model. for disaster recovery mean lower TCO.

Enterprise-proven Deploy solution with proven enterprise capabilities plus familiar

Trusted by 87 percent of the Global Fortune 500. NetBackup functionality.

Efficient and intelligent data transfers Increase performance and operational efficiency across all
Source-side deduplication and intelligent stream handlers workloads with Flex Scale 2.1 and NetBackup 9.1.
enable efficient data transfer.

NetBackup 9.1 with Flex Scale 2.1 ‒ Superior Zero Trust Ransomware Resiliency vs. the Competition

NetBackup Feature or Capability Business Value to Veritas Customers vs. Rubrik and Cohesity*

Immutability on-premise (BYO or Appliance) and cloud Prevent backups from being deleted by ransomware on-
(BYO or SaaS) premise with Flex Scale appliances. Use AWS S3 Object Locks
for protecting backups in the cloud. Leverage NetBackup
SaaS protection WORM capability for making SaaS backups
immutable.

Built-in independent, immutable clock Don’t let dependency on NTP clocks be the cause of
compromised backup immutability or security overheads. The
built-in immutable clock in Flex Scale Appliances helps eliminate
these threats and overheads.
 Blocked access to appliance operating environment Switch to restricted administrative access and time-bound
additional authentication to further secure your backup
environment.

Separation of backup and storage admin privileges Zero Trust‒based separation between backup/recovery and
storage administrators helps secure your immutable backups
from single account compromise and malicious insiders.

Zero Trust with SELinux mandatory access control Built-in mandatory access control in Flex Scale Appliances helps
stop any unknown code from getting control of your backups.
This feature allows securing backups against compromised
active directory accounts.

Internal software firewall blocks unauthorized traffic In addition to network firewalls, an internal software firewall
blocks unauthorized traffic, helping protect your backups from
unauthorized traffic that could result from human errors in
network firewall setups.

*Product comparisons use NetBackup Flex Scale 2.1 with NetBackup 9.1, compared to Cohesity C4700 appliances with Cohesity Data
Platform 6.6 and Rubrik 6416r appliances with Rubrik CDM 5.3.
**Note: 1,000 TB effective capacity considered for comparison.

NetBackup Services NetBackup Services

INTEGRATED INTEGRATED INTEGRATED Container Container
SECURITY SECURITY SECURITY

Layer 1 Layer 2 Layer 3

Integrated IDS/IPS Hardened Proprietary Container Isolation and Immutable and Immutable and
Indelible Storage Indelible Storage
and SELinux Policies Operating System Compliance Control

Careful control of Removal of unneeded OS Container isolation -

processes and their modules microservice architecture Immutable and Immutable and
resource access security best practice Indelible Storage Indelible Storage
No direct access to OS shell
Proprietary security User priviledge restriction, Containers can only access
policies via the SELinux including super users required subsystems
Immutable and Immutable and
framework Compliance mode data
Independent clock for Indelible Storage Indelible Storage
immutable/indelible data cannot be modified or
deleted by ANY user
Internal firewall prevents
unauthorized traffic

NetBackup Flex Scale NetBackup Flex Scale

Multi-Layered Security
• Containerized NetBackup services
• Intelligent load balancing and resource management
• Scale-out deduplication storage with erasure coding
At the core of NetBackup Flex Scale’s Immutable Architecture is immutable and indelible
storage - preventing data from being modified or deleted by a bad actore - and is a crucial
componeent in ransomware resiliency. Competititve products and with immutable storage, but this is where NetBackup Flex Scale’s Immutable Architecture
begins. An intruder would need to get past three layers of protection before they could even get to the immutable storage.

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