Control backup growth with the VERITAS NetBackup Deduplication Option licensing package. This entitlement is structured for 1 Front End TB and includes 1 year of Essential Support, giving procurement and infrastructure teams a defined support window and a clear capacity boundary for planning. It is intended for organizations that want to manage backup efficiency without expanding operational complexity. Deduplication matters when backup repositories, retention policies, and storage costs start to scale faster than the infrastructure budget. By reducing duplicate data in the backup stream, this option helps keep storage consumption more predictable while supporting established NetBackup environments across Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms. This is a licensing purchase, not a hardware appliance. That distinction matters for teams standardizing on software-defined data protection and looking for a support-backed entitlement rather than another box in the rack. For enterprises that need to align backup economics with compliance and retention requirements, this option provides a focused way to extend the value of an existing NetBackup deployment.