Veritas Technologies announced an expansion of its partnership with NetApp, the data authority for hybrid cloud, that will help the largest enterprises protect their data more quickly and at scale on NetApp® network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Veritas NetBackup first leveraged NetApp SnapDiff APIs in 2012 to accelerate backup of primary NAS data to on-premises and cloud targets. By integrating with NetApp SnapDiff on secondary NAS, customers can meet stringent recovery time objectives (RTOs) on their premises and speed up data transfer to the cloud for long-term retention. This integration further strengthens the value to joint customers, adding faster unstructured data protection to capabilities such as business resiliency for applications connected to NetApp storage, and deep file analytics for NetApp NAS data. The continued partnership between Veritas and NetApp offers customers numerous benefits, including: Business resiliency through integration of tier 1 applications and storage into high-availability and disaster recovery solutions; The ability to protect file data on the premises and in the cloud across physical and virtual deployments; Insights and deep file analytics through cataloging to better understand what data sits where, and how many copies are maintained; Reduced TCO by tiering backup data to the cloud for long-term retention; The ability to continuously meet stringent SLAs even as unstructured data increases.