Arkeia Brings New Level of Simplicity and Reliability to Protecting Mixed Virtual and Physical Environments
Las Vegas, Nev. August 30, 2011 – Arkeia Software, a leading provider of fast, easy-to-use, and affordable network backup solutions today announced that USC Education Savings Plans, Inc. (USCI) has replaced CA ArcServe with Arkeia Network Backup to protect a mixed environment of virtual and physical servers.
One Backup Solution for both Physical and Virtual Machines
“USCI selected Arkeia Network Backup following a competitive bake-off that evaluated Acronis Backup and Recovery, Symantec Backup Exec, and Arkeia,” says Gaelan Mines, Senior Network Administrator at USCI. “We needed a product that delivered functionality and performance, along with ease-of-use. Arkeia has also proven to be extremely reliable—unlike our past experience with other backup solutions. Today, we protect more than 50 machines and five VMware vSphere hypervisors.
Advanced Features to Protect VMware vSphere
“Starting in July 2010, we deployed Arkeia's vStorage Backup Agent for VMware's vSphere 4.0. We later upgraded to vSphere 4.1. Using VMware’s vStorage APIs for data protection (VADP), Arkeia’s solution supports advanced capabilities like Changed Block Tracking, file-grain restores, ‘thin-full’ backups, and ‘hot-add’ storage. The software was easy to install and to get up-and-running.
“Arkeia does vStorage backups just as well as vendors who only support VMware. But with Arkeia, we enjoy the simplicity and cost-savings of a single solution that protects both physical and virtual environments.
Replication of Backups to Private Cloud
“USCI also benefits from Arkeia’s remarkable flexibility. For example, we are able to safeguard all our data offsite—though some backups are saved to tape while others are replicated to our private cloud. Arkeia doesn’t limit our options. It ‘plays nicely’ in our IT infrastructure.”
About USC Education Savings Plans, Inc.
USCI is committed to helping parents across Canada save for post-secondary education for their children. USCI serves customers from their enrolment right through to the delivery of Education Assistance Payments to qualified students. USC Education Savings Plans Inc. (USCI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of The International Scholarship Foundation (The ISF) and is the exclusive distributor and administrator of USC Education Savings Plans (USC Plans).
About Arkeia Software
Arkeia Software delivers fast, easy-to-use, and affordable solutions for data backup and disaster recovery. The award-winning Arkeia Network Backup Suite is designed for mid-sized organizations and safeguards more than 100,000 networks for 7,000 customers in 70 countries. Arkeia’s integrated solution is ideal for the consolidation of disparate backup products. We protect all major virtual platforms including VMware, Hyper-V, and XenServer—and over 200 physical platforms including AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS, Netware, Solaris, and Windows. Arkeia delivers software and both virtual and hardware appliances, backing up data to disk, tape, and the cloud. We provide bare-metal disaster recovery, LAN/WAN replication of backup sets, and numerous hot backup agents. Arkeia’s unique source-side progressive deduplication technology reduces storage requirements and accelerates backups, especially of virtual environments. Arkeia shipped the industry’s first network backup solution for Linux in 1999 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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