Arkeia Network Backup v9.1 Generally Available

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Arkeia Software, a leading provider of fast, easy-to-use, and affordable network backup solutions, today announced it has completed beta testing of Arkeia Network Backup version 9.1. The new release is now available for download from the Arkeia web site.

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Arkeia Network Backup version 9.1 offers advances in Arkeia's Progressive Deduplication™ technology that reduces backup data volumes at twice the rate of fixed-block deduplication technology and at twice the speed of variable-block technology. Backup sets can now be replicated in deduplicated form to both private and public cloud storage, offering a cost-effective alternative to off-site storage of backup tapes for protection against data loss.

"We tested Arkeia Network Backup v9.1 during Arkeia's beta program and are delighted with the performance improvements that it delivers", reports Stephane Brotons, director of operations at TAIX SAS in Paris, France. TAIX places Arkeia backup appliances in customer LANs and offers a hybrid cloud backup to its cloud data center. "Arkeia's Progressive Deduplication makes Arkeia Network Backup the ideal platform for our hybrid cloud backup services. Replicating our customers' deduped backup sets to our cloud servers speeds data transfer, reduces bandwidth requirements, and raises the limit on the volume of data than can be protected by cloud backup. Arkeia requires the absolute minimum of bandwidth necessary for replication - reducing our costs compared to solutions from alternative backup software vendors."

Reduce Replication Bandwidth by 80 Percent
Due to the high cost of WAN bandwidth, many mid-market customers have found it prohibitively expensive to implement off-site replication. Progressive Deduplication drastically reduces the bandwidth required to move data off-site, whether to another business location, a private cloud managed by an Arkeia channel partner, or a public cloud such as Amazon Web Services. With Arkeia Network Backup version 9.1, deduplicated backup sets can be transmitted using 80 percent less bandwidth, with an equal reduction in data storage requirements, depending on the size and type of data.

Version 9.1 supports multi-tenant replication management within a single backup server, using private deduplication pools to guarantee data privacy. This capability provides cost savings for IT service companies offering backup and replication to multiple end users. Typically, an IT service company installs an Arkeia backup server on the end user's LAN and administers it remotely. The backup server can be deployed as a software application, a hardware appliance, or a virtual appliance. Backup sets are replicated nightly to the service provider's datacenter or to the public cloud.

New Web Dashboard and New German Localization
Users will also find added management tools for Progressive Deduplication™ and a redesigned dashboard with key backup status information assembled on a single page in Arkeia's web user interface. Arkeia Network Backup version 9.1 is available in English, French and now German localized versions.

Availability and Pricing
This new release is free to all Arkeia customers on current maintenance contracts. Pricing starts at $800 for a perpetual license for one backup server, including one year of maintenance, or $240 for an annual subscription. As part of Arkeia's commitment to help channel partners develop a revenue stream from cloud backup services, all Arkeia Premier Partners can receive a Replication Server license at no cost.

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.

SOURCE Arkeia Software

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