New features

VMware vSphere protection - image-level backup with VM or file-level recovery
VMware vStorage API support - hot-add, incremental backup and change block tracking
VMware vCenter integration - discovers VMs and schedules their backup policy
Desktop/laptop protection - self-service backup enables end users to restore their data
Enhanced client support - Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2008 and improved NDMP agent
Avamar Data Transport - enables the export of deduplicated data to tape
Larger capacity nodes - GEN3 storage nodes offer up to 3.3 TB of storage capacity

Key benefits

Eliminates the transmission and storage - of redundant backup data
Enables daily full backups - across existing network infrastructures
Reduces required daily network bandwidth - by up to 500x
Reduces total backup storage - by up to 50x
Increases backup performance - by up to 10x

Key features

Reduces the size of backup data - by deduplicating the data at source
Stores only a single copy of sub-file data - across all sites and servers
Checks data integrity daily - creates checkpoints to guarantee recovery
Encryption of backup data - while in transit and at rest
Replication of the datastore - to another Avamar server deployed at a remote location
Eliminates single points of failure - with RAIN technology
Flexible deployment - hardware, software and VMware virtual appliance editions
VMware support - deduplicates data held in virtual disks (VMDKs)
EMC NetWorker integration - client and Management Console

Platform and application support
VMware - Guest virtual machine and vStorage APIs for Data Protection
File systems - Windows, UNIX, Linux, MAC OS X, NetWare, OES-Linux and NDMP
Applications - Exchange, SQL, Oracle, DB2 and Lotus Notes