Arkeia Demonstrates vmOneStep Virtual Appliance at VMworld

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Arkeia Software, a leading provider of fast, easy-to-use, and affordable network backup solutions, is offering attendees of VMworld a chance to participate in a demonstration of its vmOneStep virtual appliance at booth 734 in the Solutions Exchange Hall of the Moscone Center every 30 minutes starting at 10:30 a.m. August 26-29, Sunday through Thursday.

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The "Download. Deploy. Backup.  All in 5 Minutes." demo and contest asks visitors to guess how fast the vmOneStep can protect their organization's data using an Arkeia stopwatch for a chance to win a Droid-based "i'm Watch" smartwatch.  All attendees who stop by Arkeia's booth to watch the demo will get an Arkeia stopwatch of their own and a Hershey's Take 5 candy bar for their participation.

"We're inviting guests of VMworld to invest 5 minutes with us to see how they can then quickly and easily backup their VMware infrastructures with a simple one-step deployment of the Arkeia vmOneStep Virtual Appliance," said Bill Evans, Arkeia Software's CEO.  "In the time it takes to perform this quick demonstration of our solution, guests will come to better understand why more than 7,000 enterprises in 70 countries have selected Arkeia as their backup solution.  Arkeia provides fast backups and recovery in an easy-to-use and affordable solution for even the most-challenging virtual environments."

Arkeia vmOneStep Virtual Appliance is the industry's most rapidly deployed backup solution for VMware environments.  In just one step, it can protect a variety of environments, including multiple virtual machines on multiple VMware hypervisors.  No other data protection solution is capable of protecting all the major virtual environments, provides truly global deduplication across multiple hypervisors, and supports direct backup to disk and tape.  Additional information about how Arkeia protects VMware hypervisors, vCenter deployments, and individual virtual machines using Changed Block Tracking is available online at www.arkeia.com/vstorage.

In addition to its participation at VMworld, Arkeia is also sponsoring a Happy Hour event at the Press Club, San Francisco's premier wine bar and lounge, on August 28.  The event features hosted beverages and appetizers and allows invitees to socialize with peers and to grow their virtualization knowledge in a fun atmosphere.  Interested parties can send their name, email and phone number to [email protected] for an invitation with event hours and address.

VMworld, hosted by VMware, provides attendees with the knowledge and tools they need to leverage virtualization and the cloud to deliver truly transformative business results.  Thousands of IT technical professionals and business decision-makers from organizations of all sizes attend the five-day event in the Moscone Center in San Francisco to explore the leading edge of the industry's most-powerful trend.  VMworld offers informative Breakout Sessions and Hands-on Lab training, plus access to a wealth of technology partners to discuss virtualization best practices, building a private cloud, leveraging the public cloud, managing desktops as a service, virtualizing enterprise applications and more.  Additional information about this year's VMworld conference is available at http://www.vmworld.com

About Arkeia Software

Arkeia delivers data backup and recovery solutions to protect more than 100,000 networks in 70 countries.  The Arkeia Network Backup Suite is designed for mid-sized organizations that require fast, easy-to-use, and affordable data protection.  The company's appliances, virtual appliances, and software back up critical data to disk, tape, and cloud storage.  Arkeia protects all major virtual platforms including VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, and more than 200 physical platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, Netware, Solaris, AIX, BSD, and HP-UX.  The company's patented source-side Progressive Deduplication™ technology helps users realize better performance at a lower cost by reducing data volumes.  Arkeia's deduplication is crucial to accelerating replication of on-premise backups to private or public clouds.  Products are sold through resellers and managed service providers worldwide.  The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Arkeia and Arkeia Network Backup are trademarks or registered trademarks of Arkeia Software, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

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