QuorumSoft Introduces "Scale on Demand" Citrix XenServer Backup and Disaster Recovery

BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- QuorumSoft, a world leading provider of  deduplicating archival solutions for virtualized environments, today announced the general availability of Alike™ Version 2.1, a new generation solution for Citrix XenServer backup and disaster recovery.  Alike v2.1 delivers significant enhancements, including dramatically faster backup performance, more flexible deployment options, and innovative new ways to minimize bandwidth and storage costs.

With Alike v2.1, multiple virtual machines (VMs) can be backed up concurrently, giving XenServer users the ability to scale the solution to meet their unique requirements. Alike v2.1 also includes the ability to backup and replicate a virtual machine in a single pass, choose push or pull replication flow, and other advanced capabilities. To provide companies with the flexibility to balance their resource utilization, QuorumSoft offers the choice of either source-side or target-side deduplication.

"We created Alike v2.1 in direct response to what Citrix XenServer users worldwide have said they wanted—a flexible way to reduce the time and expense of protecting critical business environments and avoiding disruptions to their operations," said Phil Baskette, founder and CEO, Quorum Software, Inc. "Alike v2.1 is an important milestone in our long-term strategy to continually create new and innovative backup and disaster recovery solutions."

Alike v2.1 also enables companies to:

• Easily and efficiently keep an up-to-date version of their backup history offsite
• Manage all backup and replication tasks without using cumbersome command line configuration
• Tailor any backup and replication schedule to their needs, using a flexible job scheduling engine
• Leverage any CIFS compliant storage system
• Schedule the export of XVA archives to disk
• Deploy Alike on physical or virtual machines.  

About QuorumSoft

Quorum Software, Inc. was founded in 2008 to offer organizations of all sizes the high-performance and cost-effective solutions they need to meet their back up and business continuity requirements. The QuorumSoft Alike solution is used by businesses and non-profit organizations worldwide to protect their server and desktop virtualization environments.

More information:

Alike V2.1 technical information: http://quorumsoft.com/download/alike-tech-sheet.pdf

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Contact:

Jim Elder
PR for QuorumSoft
Phone: 802-863-3242
Cell: 203-470-8659
Email: [email protected]

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