Arkeia Named Tech Awards Circle Best Midrange Software Winner

SAN DIEGO, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Arkeia Software, a leading provider of fast, easy-to-use and affordable network backup solutions, has been selected as a winner of the Tech Awards Circle, taking Gold in the Best Midrange Software category. Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers/journalists from nominations based on a broad range of achievements – from product and technology innovations to talented executive leadership and engineering innovators.

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Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets.

Product Innovation Drives Customer Satisfaction
"We're proud to be a Gold winner in the Best Midrange Software category," said Bill Evans, CEO of Arkeia Software.  "Arkeia targets the mid-market, combining enterprise capabilities with the ease-of-use that the mid-market demands.  We are gratified that our ongoing innovation in data protection is enjoying industry recognition.  More important, we are delighted by the success that our customers enjoy with our software, appliances, and virtual appliances for data backup and recovery."

"Arkeia exhibited true industry excellence to be recognized among the top of the Tech Awards Circle entrants," said Kevin Anderson, awards program coordinator. "Our judges were impressed with the level of submissions from all the vendors entering this year's competition, so to be named a winner of this prestigious award is a testament to the quality and innovation shown by the winners in the high tech community.  We wish them continued success and look forward to them defending their title during the next awards period."

About Arkeia vmOneStep
Arkeia's vmOneStep virtual appliance for VMware offers comprehensive backup and recovery support for VMware vSphere platforms, including vCenter, ESX, and ESXi. The new vmOneStep virtual appliance auto-discovers, auto-includes, and auto-protects all virtual machines across multiple hypervisors in a single backup schedule.  As an all-in-one agentless backup solution for the entire organization, the vmOneStep virtual appliance supports not just VMware, but also Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer, as well as more than 200 physical platforms.

For descriptions of Arkeia's recent innovations including Arkeia Network Backup version 10, announced on June 12, 2012 visit http://www.arkeia.com/new-in-v100.

More information about Tech Awards Circle, including the full list of winners, is available online at http://www.techawardscircle.com or by email at [email protected].

About Tech Awards Circle
Tech Awards Circle was established this year to truly honor the 'best of the best' in technology. Tech Awards Circle is not affiliated with an analyst firm or a media company, both of which are directly supported by tech vendors through consulting relationships or advertising sales, so it is uniquely unbiased and immune to conflicts of interest. Entries are judged by an independent circle of journalists, including product reviewers, each with at least a decade of experience covering technology from consumer electronics to enterprise-class computing. To prevent these judges from being unduly influenced by vendors, they have agreed to remain anonymous. For more information or to be added to the mailing list please visit www.techawardscircle.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 in1996 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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