Veritas NetBackup 8.1.1 and NetBackup RestAPI Software

Veritas Technologies LLC announced NetBackup 8.1.1 and NetBackup RestAPI – the first extension of NetBackup with APIs built for developers, partners and solution providers to natively integrate and customize data protection for business, and  highly-regulated public sector applications.

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With RestAPI, customers in a variety of industries, including public sector, healthcare, financial services and manufacturing now gain programmatic access to NetBackup, extending the reach of the company’s 360 Data Management portfolio. This allows for simpler native integration of NetBackup with multiple applications and the ability to create more customized solutions around data management.

“These days, APIs are fueling the creation of new business models faster than ever before,” said Pete Tseronis, former CTO, U.S. Department of Energy, and founder and CEO, Dots and Bridges. “In an age of distributed data resources and corresponding data breaches, information sharing and safeguarding is paramount for government agencies and industry counterparts. NetBackup’s innovative APIs simplify the development of next-gen platforms and apps intended to optimize information aggregation, secure high-value data assets and provide insightful intelligence.“

“Today, so many of our customers want to create and launch new business models that enable them to capture market share, accelerate innovation and protect one of their most important assets – their data,” said Mike Palmer, EVP and chief product officer, Veritas. “By sharing NetBackup RestAPI, we can help advance these efforts with Veritas’ market-leading data protection offering that can now be natively built into apps to offer customers, partners and solution providers new ways to manage, optimize and protect data, both on-premises and in the cloud.“

Data management platform for public sector
With this announcement, the company is also extending its 360 Data Management portfolio to local, state and federal government organizations. NetBackup is optimized for some of product security standards, including the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) certification, which is a government computer security standard used to approve cryptographic modules, and with it, the use of AES 256-bit encryption, the standard for security.

NetBackup is also optimized for critical security standards that offer a heightened level of U.S. government compliance, as well as compliance for many Defense Information Systems, that include all applicable Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Template Implementation Guides (STIG). Additionally, it complies with the Application Security and Development STIG, the Database STIG, the Network STIG, the Red Hat STIG and the Web STIG.

NetBackup is available with support for National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-53 rev 4 at a Low, Medium and High operational security posture. It also provides full Classified Message Incident (CMI) spillage remediation overwrites as required by NIST SP-800-88. This heightened support for U.S. government requirements demonstrates the firm’s commitment to the public sector.

NetBackup extends its reach deeper into multi-cloud
This release of NetBackup also provides flexibility and choice for customers requiring innovative ways to manage, optimize, protect and store their data on-premises in one or more cloud service. NetBackup 8.1.1 introduces integration with Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) secure, durable, and cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup service, Amazon Glacier.

NetBackup RestAPI is available from the company and its worldwide channel partners.

Resources:
NetBackup Data Sheet     
Reasons to Upgrade to NetBackup 8.1