Arkeia Customers Reduce Cost and Complexity of VMware Backups

Arkeia's vStorage Backup Agent Protects Against Downtime And Supports vCenter and vApp Deployments

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Sep 01, 2010, 09:05 ET

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Arkeia Software, will demonstrate Arkeia Network Backup v8.2 at VMworld 2010, in Booth #1725. VMworld 2010 is being held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California, August 30 – September 2. Arkeia Software, a leading provider of fast, easy-to-use, and affordable network backup solutions, today announced that Arkeia customers and resellers are significantly reducing complexity and costs using Arkeia's new backup agent based on VMware's vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP).

Tucker (UK): Simplified and Centralized Administration

"Before Arkeia Network Backup, deploying a single backup solution to protect both virtual and physical environments was complex and expensive, requiring a jumble of backup products glued together with custom scripting," explains Alan Tucker, director of Business Computing and Network Services Ltd (http://www.bcns.co.uk/), a technology consultancy west of London, UK. Arkeia Network Backup brings together file- and image-level backups and restores in a single, easy-to-use package. Fast image-level backups make quick recovery of complete VM's painless.

"Before Arkeia, reliability and monitoring were recurring issues because multiple backup products used inconsistent terminology across multiple reporting methods. Monitoring for exceptions introduced new problems for remote servers: a lack of a failure report didn't always mean a successful backup had occurred. Arkeia provides a simple, reliable solution with centralized monitoring covering all of our backup needs. We recommend the combination of Arkeia and VMware vSphere 4 to all our clients. In fact, we have so much confidence in them that we use them to run our own business.

Fraga (Brazil): Easier to Use, Lowered Costs

"Arkeia's backup agent for vStorage meshes seamlessly with Arkeia's backup agents for physical platforms, including Linux and Windows," said Fabiano Fraga, IT manager, ITS Group (http://www.itsgroup.com.br/), a Brazilian system integrator. "Delivered with VMware's VDDK libraries, the agent for vStorage installs quickly and easily."

"Using a single web user interface, we're able to centrally manage backups of all our platforms. This ease of use saves time and reduces costs because a single person can manage both physical and virtual infrastructure. We have been able to dispense with other, special-purpose data protection solutions for VMware environments, reducing infrastructure costs."

Premeau (USA): Faster and Simpler

"Our clients need solutions for both physical and virtual environments," observes Steve Premeau, CTO of Premeau Enterprises, a data protection consulting firm that serves the educational institutions and small businesses in the Midwest. "They're no longer limited to backup applications that serve VMware environments exclusively. Now, all of their data protection requirements are available in a single data protection solution: Arkeia Network Backup.

"Arkeia's support for Changed Block Tracking (CBT) accelerates our backups. CBT-based incremental, differential, and thin-full backups give us the flexibility to schedule the backup type that is most appropriate for the recovery needs of individual virtual machines. Other solutions locked us into one backup process for every virtual machine."

About Arkeia Software

Arkeia Software delivers fast, easy-to-use and affordable solutions for data backup and disaster recovery. The award-winning Arkeia Network Backup Suite is designed for both mid-sized organizations and multi-site enterprises, and safeguards more than 100,000 networks for 7,000 customers in 70 countries. Arkeia's products protect data on over 150 platforms, including virtually all Linux and Windows platforms, as well as AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Macintosh, Netware, and Solaris. Arkeia Backup Servers are deployed in three modes: as software applications, appliances, or virtual appliances. Complementary suite software includes file agents, application agents, database agents, virtual machine agents, disaster recovery agents, backup replication servers, and central management servers. Arkeia shipped the industry's first network backup solution for Linux in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

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