0 and interoperateswith Arkeia Backup Agents and the Arkeia Backup Replication

With virtual appliances bringing downthe cost of deploying servers, proliferation of virtual machines is sure toincrease, a trend that IDC believes has already started to occur. This threat ofvirtual machine sprawl and the lack of integration with existing managementtools today is an inhibitor to virtual appliance adoption. Arkeia attempts tosolve this problem with its Central Management Server that can manage ArkeiaNetwork Backup appliances." Arkeia Network Backup v8.0The Arkeia Virtual Appliance delivers Arkeia Network Backup as a system imagefor a VMware virtual machine and comes bundled with everything required toimplement a robust backup solution, including licenses for a disk-based virtualtape library (VTL) and Arkeia Backup Agents. The Arkeia Virtual Appliancedelivers all the functionality of Arkeia Network Backup v8.0 and interoperateswith Arkeia Backup Agents and the Arkeia Backup Replication. The Arkeia VirtualAppliance can be deployed in both VMware ESX and ESXi virtual environments. BecauseArkeia deployment interfaces are consistent, agents require no modifications ifbackup servers are migrated across deployment modes. Similarly, backup sets can be replicated from any backup serverdeployment to an Arkeia Virtual Appliance or vice-versa.

The new Arkeia VMware ESX Agent is installed on an ESX hypervisor and allowsbackup of one or several virtual machines on that physical computer, regardlessof the operating system or the application running in the virtual machines. Other features in v8.0 include an enhanced graphical user interface, expandedreporting capabilities, simplified tape library management, wiki-baseddocumentation, and delivery platform updates. Pricing for the virtual appliance deployment with three bundled backupagents begins at $2,000. Both the virtual appliance and the ESX agent areavailable for download from About Arkeia SoftwareArkeia Software delivers proven solutions for data backup and disaster recovery.The Arkeia Network Backup Suite was designed for both mid-sized organizationsand multi-site enterprises and protects more than 100,000 networks for 7,000customers in 70 countries. Arkeia software products are available on 130 Linux,Macintosh, Netware, UNIX, Windows platforms and include file-agents,application-agents, database-agents, backup replication servers, and centralmanagement servers.

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