(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Backup and recovery software and appliances provider Arkeia Software (www.arkeia.com) has announced a major new update to its Arkeia Network Backup software, featuring new agents for backup and recovery of VMware (www.vmware.com) and Hyper-V (www.microsoft.com/hyper-v-server/) virtual environments, and applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint, and SQL Server.
Scheduled to be generally available in April starting at $800 for one backup server license and one year of maintenance, according to Arkeia’s Wednesday announcement, Arkeia Network Backup version 8.2 leverages the industry’s latest APIs to provide fast, easy-to-use, and affordable backup solutions.
“As companies adopt virtualized environments, data protection becomes more costly and difficult to manage, especially in mixed environments that include physical servers and require both disk and tape storage,” Arkeia Software chief executive officer Bill Evans said in a statement. “Arkeia is giving companies the solutions they need to protect data as they transition from exclusively physical environments, to environments that mix physical and virtual machines.”
The new Arkeia VMware Backup Agent supports VMware’s vStorage APIs for proxy-less backups of VMware virtual machines. VMware’s vStorage APIs supersede their VMware Consolidated Backup solutions and allow faster backups and reduced network traffic on both vSphere 4/ESX and ESXi platforms.
Arkeia’s three new agents for Microsoft applications and databases use Microsoft’s Volume Shadow-Copy Service architecture to capture a snapshot of data without interrupting the operation of mission-critical applications or databases. Arkeia can perform both full and incremental backups based on these VSS snapshots, and the new agents improve ease-of-use and simplifies the deployment of new Microsoft products that use VSS technology. Deployment is simplified and accelerated because Arkeia is bundling these new agents with the standard Windows Agent package.
Leveraging VSS for snapshot-based backups, Arkeia’s Agent for Hyper-V performs hot backups and recoveries of multiple Hyper-V virtual machines without requiring a backup agent to be installed on each virtual machine. A single agent enables consolidated management of multiple virtual machines for all backup and recovery operations.
In addition to VMware and Microsoft-based environments, Arkeia Network Backup also features new agents for Novell OES 2 and NetWare Agents for Novell GroupWise, eDirectory, and iFolder.
