Arkeia Software is a technology company. Founded by expert engineers, the company made its mark early in the Linux world through repeated innovations, many of which still distinguish the product today—even against bigger rivals. We pride ourselves on the elegant and flexible architecture of our products and the reliable and high-performance operation that results.
We developed our software with a simple philosophy. First, our software is built with backup speed and performance in mind, which is reflected in our extensive use of paralleism and our support for disk-based backups. Second, our software is standards compliant—and when it’s not (e.g. our internal backup format) we publish source code. Third, we’ve always believed that there is a better, simpler, more-reliable solution, and have strived to conceive and deliver these solutions to our customers.
This section reviews a series of technical innovations that sets Arkeia Software apart from the field:
- Data Flow Parallelism: Arkeia leverages sophisticated multi-flow and multithreading from client to backup server and from backup server to tape libraries. Arkeia can create up to 248 simultaneous flows of data (not simply machines, but granular flows), and precisely prioritize those streams. This innovative capability ensures that full network bandwidth is utilized during backups, resulting in "line-speed" data protection and shorter backup windows.
- Triple Backup Verification: Arkeia deploys three levels of data consistency checking to ensure data backed up has really been backed up. A backup isn’t done until you’ve backup up all your data and know that you’ve backed up all your data.
- Data Encryption at the Client: Arkeia encrypts data at the source (the client) machine before traversing the network. This means that backups are written in their encrypted state on the storage media. The unique approach of client-side encryption reduces backup window by leveraging under-utilized processing of Client machines (rather than Backup Server). Also, client-side encryption reduces risk of sending unprotected data from Client to Backup Server.
- Command Line Interface Customization: Arkeia offers an easily customizable and extensible command line interface (CLI) that sits on top of the core backup engine. This flexibility allows customers to integrate Arkeia into existing data/network management solutions. The scripts you deploy are only limited by your imagination. Also, note that our CLI speaks the same Arkeia protocol as our Graphical Web Interface. Either of these interface servers can run on machines separate from the backup server.
- High-performance Catalog: Arkeia has invested heavily to deliver a high-performance catalog server. We believe that our indexing algorithms and implementation is the equal of any. When backup sets get big, both backup and restore time can often be limited by the performance of the catalog. Give our software a test drive to compare.
- Source Code for Restores: Arkeia Software uses a highly optimized backup storage format. However, to ensure that no (unencrypted) media written by Arkeia Network Backup will ever be unreadable, we prepend the C-language source code necessary to read the backup contents to every backup image. Our storage format is better…but we don’t use it to separate you from your data.