Arkeia Network Backup is Verified as Citrix Ready

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Arkeia Software, a worldwide provider of backup and disaster recovery software and appliances, today announced that its Arkeia Network Backup solution has been verified as Citrix Ready®. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix.  Arkeia Network Backup completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with XenServer, providing confidence in joint solution compatibility.

Arkeia Network Backup Protects XenServer Virtual Environments

XenServer environments can be integrated into an Arkeia Network Backup global backup policy in two ways. These approaches may be used singly or together.  With the first approach, administrators deploy a backup agent in each virtual machine and perform a traditional backup of each "guest" operating system.  Advantages of this method include a granular, file-level restore and the ability to perform hot backups of data for a wide variety of databases and applications.  Arkeia offers discounted pricing for agents deployed in XenServer virtual machines.

With the second approach, administrators perform backups at the hypervisor level, creating image snapshots of each virtual machine and associated disk. This backup method allows a fast restore of full virtual machines, and allows multiple virtual machines to be protected with a single Arkeia backup agent.  Backups can be restored either to the original XenServer hypervisor or redirected to another hypervisor.  With both approaches backups can be made directly to disk, directly to tape, to-disk-to-tape, or to-disk-to-the-cloud.

"Arkeia brings a proven, industry-standard backup solution to the Citrix XenServer ecosystem," said Vishal Ganeriwala, Sr. Manager Citrix Ready Program.  "Citrix works with partners to deliver rich virtualization solutions to our customers.  By collaborating with Arkeia, we offer our customers tested solutions to fully protect their investment in Citrix virtualization."

"As a member of the Citrix Ready program, we are pleased to offer our customers validated solutions to protect Citrix XenServer environments," said Fred Renard, vp of marketing at Arkeia Software.  "We look forward to continuing collaboration with the Citrix Ready partner ecosystem to provide the highest quality experience for our customers."

Arkeia Network Backup is available as a free trial.  Visit http://www.arkeia.com/xenserver.

About the Citrix Ready Program

The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including Citrix® XenDesktop®, XenAppTM, XenServer®, NetScaler® and GoToMeeting®. The Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third party products that have successfully met verification criteria set by Citrix, and gives customers an added confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering. The Citrix Ready program leverages industry-leading alliances across the Citrix partner eco-system to meet a wide variety of customer needs, and currently incorporates over 2,800 partners who have demonstrated more than 18,000 product verifications. It also includes the Citrix Ready Community Verified program which allows customers to see thousands of products that have been verified by other customers to work in their production environments. The Citrix Ready program received the Alliance Excellence Award from the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) for creating a strong community through implementation of new, innovative best practices. More information about the Citrix Ready program can be found at www.citrix.com/citrixready. Reach Citrix ready using social media via the Citrix Ready blog site and Twitter.

Citrix®, Citrix Ready®, Citrix® XenDesktop®, XenAppTM, XenServer®, NetScaler® and GoToMeeting® are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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.

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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