It can be used to protect data and software applications in physical and virtual environments from one central management interface.

Quest Software offers data deduplication, and protection for NAS filers (NDMP).

NetVault Backup can protect Windows Server, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX, Hyper-V, and VMware.

It represents a contiguous storage pool on disk without being subdivided into virtual tapes or slots for easier management and allows for byte-level, variable block-based software deduplication.

NetVault Backup supports EMC Data Domain via DD Boost and Quantum DXi.