Arkeia Software

Reviews

Storage Magazine: Backing up virtual servers

Storage Magazine — Backing Up Virtual Servers

"In addition to major backup application vendors (Arkeia Software, CA, CommVault Systems Inc., EMC Corp., IBM, Quest Software Inc./BakBone Software Inc. and Symantec Corp.), smaller vendors such as PHD Virtual Technologies and Veeam Software offer virtual server backup applications with VADP support," writes Jacob Gsoedl of Storage Magazine in his overview of the alternatives for protecting virtual environments. He describes the issues and details progress made by backup software vendors like Arkeia.

July 2011 (Read more here.)

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IT Administrator — Testing Arkeia Network Backup v9.0

"Arkeia Network Backup v9 offers easy and reliable backups of heterogeneous environements. The software includes all features that an IT-administrator needs to implement an efficient data protection strategy. The web interface is intuitive and clear, accessible from any browser and provides various wizards for easy configuration and the implementation of more difficult jobs or tasks. People who are at least a little familiar with backup issues will be able to handle Arkeia really fast. Arkeia’s alerts, monitoring and report features keep users at all levels informed about the current and past backup jobs and activities. Regarding deduplication, Arkeia offers a highly efficient tool to reduce the volume of data to be backed up. […] All in all, Arkeia Network Backup is a really recommendable solution for data protection."

July 2011 (Read more here.)

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Enterprise Strategy Group — Arkeia Gets Progressive

"Arkeia Network Backup is an ideal deduplication solution for small to medium-sized enterprises,” writes Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Arkeia’s Progressive Deduplication is an improvement on deduplication introduced by others who came to market beforehand."

June 2011 (Read more here.)

DCIG — 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide

Arkeia Software is ranked third among 24 backup software products for its features to protect data on virtual servers. "Arkeia proves that a backup software provider can successfully transform itself from providing solutions solely targeted at the physical world to delivering the cutting edge features needed to protect today’s virtual server environments," write Senior Analyst, Jerome Wendt. Arkeia ranked tops overall in the "Excellent" category. Arkeia is also ranked "Excellent" in three individual categories.

Released December 2010 (Read more here.)

Admin Magazine — Professional Backup Solutions Compared

"Just looking at the architecture quickly reveals that Arkeia aims to do battle with any size IT landscape. […] For example, Arkeia has many features that you would only expect in the major leagues, such as direct management of storage hardware by brand name vendors to create snapshots, or default definition for throttling, or replication of backup sets on geographically distributed servers."

Issue 02, 2010 (Read more here.)

Storage Magazine — Backup appliance product review

"The Arkeia appliance delivers a smart D2D2T solution that is easy to deploy, and offers an impressive selection of backup and restoration features. Its extensive client support makes it well suited to a range of environments and it is offered at a competitive price as well.” “Data restoration doesn't get any easier, as you can use the Navigator option to browse files from a specific backup job that displays all files backed up. You can also search for specific files and decide the location to which they should be returned. The 'Analyze' function will prove very useful when you want to restore data from tape, as it queries the database and lists the ones you'll need."

July 2007, upon the introduction of Arkeia's first backup appliances (Read more here.)