Key Features in NetBackup 8.3 – GA Release: July 28, 2020

• Strengthen ransomware resilience - Outsmart and prevent ransomware with hardened security and vendor-agnostic immutability for storage using NetBackup OpenStorage Technology (OST) and orchestrated rehearsals.
• Integrations with  CloudPoint  and Veritas Resiliency Platform - Gain the freedom to control cloud data protection and disaster recovery directly from NetBackup, proactively ensuring resilience for applications across your heterogeneous environment.
• Cloud-to-anywhere - Seamless workload and data portability in the cloud, including Azure Stack to Azure Stack and Azure region-to-region with orchestrated disaster recovery using Resiliency Platform integration.
• Expanded workloads support - Total control of discovery, backup, restore and automation at scale for Microsoft SQL, Oracle and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) for simplified management.
• Universal Shares includes new form factor support and enhanced management, now available for both appliances and BYO media servers. 
• Instant access for SQL and BYO (build your own) databases.
• Expanded workload capabilities such as Microsoft SQL Self-Service.
• MSDP direct cloud tiering and the ability to manage data in multiple buckets, storage tiers and cloud providers from a single node.
• Image sharing in the cloud and support for Azure- and S3-compatible object storage.
• Object storage support for client-side deduplication for writing directly to cloud storage.
• Cloud snapshots, enabling granular recovery.
• NetBackup 8.3 Release Notes – Learn more details about all the features included in this release.

Key Features in NetBackup 8.2 – GA Release: 28 June 2019

• Agentless VMware recovery - Granular restore of VM data without agents.
• DR to the cloud - Orchestrate disaster recovery into AWS.
• Enhanced backup to the cloud - Faster deduplication and dedupe to AWS Glacier.
• Backup of snapshots - Create backup copies of supported snapshots.
• Application-aware snapshots - Create application-consistent snapshots of Oracle, DB2.
• NetBackup for Red Hat virtualisation - Simple user experience, role-based access and APIs.
• NetBackup for OpenStack - Parallel streaming backup of OpenStack systems
• Two-factor authentication - More secure access to the NetBackup console.
• Expanded REST API library - Expanded calls and support for SwaggerTM interface. 

Key features in 8.1.2 – GA release: 17 Sept 2018

• New web UI – Enjoy a simple, secure, web-based user experience
• Role-based access – Grant limited access to specific users and roles
• VMware Instant Access – Faster, easier VM restores without agents
• NetBackup for VMware Cloud on AWS – Protect VMware VMs in AWS
• NetBackup for HBase – Database-aware backup of HBase systems
• Protect cloud workloads – Orchestrate AWS, Microsoft and Google snapshots
• Automatic client updates – Faster and easier client software upgrades
• Amazon Glacier Vaults – Enforce compliance controls through AWS
• Parallel Streaming SDK – Developer kit to create 3rd party plug-ins
• REST API libraries – Expanded calls to enable more programmatic functions
• GDPR ready – User audit alerting flags for inspection
• Veritas Smart Meter – Monitor usage and consumption from web portal
• NetBackup 8.1.2 Release Notes – Learn more about the details for all features included in this release

Key Features in 8.1.1 – GA Release: 16 February 2018

• AWS Glacier cloud connector – Utilise inexpensive cloud storage for backup and long term retention
• Alibaba cloud connector – Store backup data within the Alibaba cloud
• NetBackup for PostgreSQL – Database-aware backup of PostgreSQL databases
• NetBackup for SQLite – Database-aware backup of SQLite databases
• NetBackup for MariaDB – Database-aware backup of MariaDB databases
• Enhanced Deduplication – Choose fixed or variable length segmentation to optimise performance
• Integration with Veritas CloudPoint – Orchestrate snapshots from 3PAR, HDS, EMC and Pure
• NetBackup RestAPI – RESTful API allows customised UX and integration with 3rd party applications
• NetBackup 8.1.1 Release Notes – Learn more about the details of all the features included in this release

Key Features in 8.1 - GA Release: 26 September 2017

• NetBackup CloudCatalyst – Faster, storage-efficient backups to the cloud with deduplication
• NetBackup Parallel Streaming – Faster, scale-out backups for Big Data and Hyperconverged clusters
• NetBackup for Hadoop/HDFS – Parallel, scale-out backups of Hadoop/HDFS clusters
• NetBackup for Nutanix – Parallel, scale-out backups of Nutanix clusters
• NetBackup for MySQL – Database-aware backup of MySQL databases
• Granular VMware backup and recovery – Select virtual drives with a new recovery UI
• Instant Recovery for Oracle – Access Oracle databases directly from NetBackup Appliance storage
• NetBackup Accelerator for Dell EMC Isilon – Up to 50% faster NDMP backups for Isilon filers
• Easier Deployment – Deployment templates and native packaging for all clients
• Hardened Security – Secure communications and improved encryption options for MSDP storage
• NetBackup Virtual Appliance – Deploy into existing virtual environments, including data centres and remote offices
• NetBackup 8.1 Release Notes – Learn more about the details for all features included in this release

Key Features in 8.0 - GA Release: 5 December 2016

• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 - Support ready for the next generation of workloads and leverage MS Resilient Change Tracking (RCT)
• NetBackup Accelerator for Microsoft Hyper-V - Leverage Windows Server 2016 and manage virtual data growth with 100x faster VM backups
• VMware vSphere 6.5 - Support ready for next generation VMware, and individual VMDK file restores to the existing or to an alternate virtual machine
• VMware vRealize plugin for NetBackup Self-Service - Customisable options give VMware vRealize users the power to manage NetBackup protection
• NetBackup Virtual Appliance for Remote Office - Download appliance simplicity and support for remote office protection in VMware environments
• NetBackup Amazon AMI - Simple, fast unified data protection with enterprise-class confidence for workloads running in Amazon EC2 cloud services
• Integrated Cloud Storage Connectors - Greater flexibility and cloud choice with support for Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, OpenStack Swift, SwiftStack
• Enhanced NDMP Backup of EMC Isilon Filers - Improved deduplication rates, faster backups and reduced storage for Isilon filer NDMP backups

Key Features in 7.7.3 - GA Release: 6 June 2016

• VMware Intelligent Policies for VMware Tags - Select and automatically protect virtual machines using tabs in VMware vSphere 6
• VMware Individual VMDK File Restore - Easily create a new VM with the restore of an individual VMDK in both Windows and Linux
• Amazon S3 Cloud Connector Compression - Better cloud performance and reduce the cost of sending and storing data in S3 cloud targets
• OpsCenter Alerting Enhancements and Activity Monitor Filtering - Faster troubleshooting with easy drill-down and improved manageability
• Client Native Packaging - Simplify Linux client deployments with RPMs for RHEL, SuSE, CentOS and Oracle Linux
• NetBackup Self-Service Application Protection - Enterprise and MSP multi-tenant self-service backup and restore for Oracle and SQL
• NetBackup Self-Service Multi Policy Protection - Greater flexibility with new "Protection Types" to protect a client with multiple policies
• NetBackup Self-Service vCloud Director - 'Single-step' import simplifies the backup and recovery for vCloud environments
• NetBackup Self-Service System Admin Dashboard - Enhanced administrator view to monitor tenants, data usage and data growth

Key Features in 7.7.2 - GA Release: 1 February 2016

• Oracle multi-stream restore - A revolutionary new way to accelerate Oracle database recovery with simultaneous restore streams
• Amazon S3 Standard and Infrequent Access Storage support - Simplifed and automated selection of AWS S3 storage classes
• NetBackup SQL Intelligent Policies for HA Clusters - Automated discovery SQL instances and failover protection for HA Clusters
• JAVA UI Enhancements - Added properties for editing, more granular filtering and search functions, and Single Sign On (SSO) capabilites
• Non-Root User Browse and Restore for Files/Folders from VMware Backups - Seamless self-service operations for VMware restores

Key Features in 7.7.1 - GA Release: 5 October 2015

• VMware Intelligent Policies for VMware Tags - Select and automatically protect virtual machines using VMware tags
• Microsoft Hyper-V Intelligent Policies with SCVMM - Automated discovery, policy based protection and performance load balancing
• Microsoft SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups support - Use native SQL backup tools to protect 24/7 resilient Availability Groups
• Amazon v4 Private Government S3 Cloud support - Enhanced security/authentication requirements for AWS GovCloud storage
• NetBackup Accelerator for NDMP - Accelerate backup of only changed blocks for 100x faster NDMP backups on NetApp arrays

Key Features in 7.7 - GA Release: 7 July 2015

• VMware Intelligent Policies for vSAN and vVOL datastores - Automatically discover and protect vSAN and vVOL environments
• VMware vSphere Web Client Plugin for Instant Recovery - From vSphere Web Client spin up a VM from backup disk in 60 seconds
• Microsoft Hyper-V System Center VM Manager Addin - NetBackup self-service from Hyper-V console
• Microsoft Hyper-V Intelligent Policies - Automated VM discovery, policy backups and load balancing for Hyper-V environments
• Microsoft SQL Intelligent Policies - Advanced SQL protection with automated discovery and policy based backups
• NetBackup Replication Director NDMP Indexing - Faster backups and file level recovery from indexed NDMP backups
• NetBackup Replication Director for NetApp cDOT - Integrated lifecycle snapshot management for NetApp Clustered Data OnTap
• NetBackup Self-Service Updates - Leverage the power of self-service with NetBackup for multi-tenant MSPs and the Enterprise
• Enhanced Audit Compliance and Reporting - Login specfic "Who did what and when did they do it"
• FIPS Certification - NIST lab certified for compliance with the FIPS 140-2 standard
• Amazon S3 Cloud Connector Overview and Enhancements - 30x better S3 cloud performance with multi-stream optimisation
• NetBackup 7.7 What's New Comparison Matrix

Key Features in 7.6 - GA Release: 18 December 2013

• VMware Instant Recovery - Power-up production VMs from backup disk in as little as 60 seconds
• VMware vCloud Suite integration - "Set and Forget" automated protection and recovery for vCloud Director provisioned data centres
• VMware vCenter Plug-in - Easily manage enteprise NetBackup VM protection and recovery through familiar vCenter console
• VMware Physical to Virtual (P2V) Bare Metal Recovery - Fast disaster recovey and simplified "physical to virtual" migration
• NetBackup Accelerator for VMware - Manage virtual data growth with 100x faster VM backups
• NetBackup Replication Director Enhancements - NetApp NAS/FAS snapshot management for VMware, databases, NDMP and more
• NetBackup Replication Director for EMC VNX and Celerra - Manage entire lifecycle of EMC snapshots and snapshot replication
• NetBackup Targeted Auto Image Replication (AIR) - Flexibility to select replicated backup images to individual target domains
• Oracle Intelligent Policy - Automated database discovery with simplified scheduling and checkbox policy wizards
• Citrix VM and Application Protection - Protecting Citrix XenServer virtual environments with Hot, Cold and Off-host snapshot backups
• OpsCenter Enhancements - New 'Look and Feel' with many new 'getting started' wizards and VM reporting

Key Features in 7.5 - GA Release: 13 March 2012

• VMware VM Application Protection - Full VMDK, File-level, Full and Individual database object recovery from single backup image
• VMware and Hyper-V Policy Enhancements - Performance optimised, policy based data protection for VMware and Hyper-V environments
• NetBackup Accelerator - Backup only changed files to reduce CPU, Network, and Storage resources and 100x faster backups and faster restores
• NetBackup Auto Image Replication (AIR) - Automated multi-domain replication disaster recovery tool to protect large global deployments
• Cloud Storage for AWS, Rackspace, AT&T - Simplified Cloud Storage with wizard driven integration and intelligent bandwidth management
• Operational Restores with OpsCenter - Faster find and restore with advanced global file search and multi-level filtering capabilities
• Network Resilience - Automatically ensure successful backups when WANs are dropped or become intermittent
• NetBackup 7.5 What's New Comparison Matrix