Open Source Solutions

Since its inception in 1996, Arkeia Software has been a pioneer in delivering enterprise-class data protection to the Linux and Open Source communities. Today, Arkeia Software provides the market's broadest and deepest support for Linux and open source applications, with more than 100 Linux platforms supported.

Arkeia was the first to run natively on all major distributions of Linux in 1996, and our flagship product has won many awards and accolades from the Linux and open source community. Most importantly, Arkeia is a validated solution as the only vendor with more than 100,000 Linux networks protected in more than 70 countries. Customers such as Ericsson, Oxford University and UNESCO use our products to protect their Linux deployments.

Finally, we have a long legacy of partnering with innovators in the Linux and Open Source community and are member of the APRIL association, a major player of the democratization and the distribution of Free Software and open standards within the general public, professionals and institutions in the French-speaking community.

Subscription Licensing

Arkeia now offers a subscription licensing option similar to Red Hat, SuSE, MySQL and Ububtu to match how these leading open source solutions deliver support subscriptions.  Organizations who prefer an annual support subscription model can now use the most robust and mature Linux backup solution in the market, Arkeia Network Backup.  Unlike other backup solutions that are subscription based, such as Zmanda, Arkeia is a full-functioning, enterprise class backup suite with broad application support and live, local technical support.

Open Source Infrastructure

All Arkeia software products are available free to download and test.   We involve the community in our product design and testing, and our product documentation is openly available via Wikis.

Additionally, the Arkeia development team regularly contributes to open source project such as XFS and GDB. Finally, every backup image written by our backup servers includes the C-language source code for reading the backup images and restoring its files.

Linux and open source development deliver innovative products which also have the reliability, scalability, security and affordability that enterprises demand. For enterprises that have committed to this movement, there is not better data protection partner than Arkeia Software.

To learn more about why Arkeia is a good solution for Linux and open source environments, visit why arkeia for open source page.

To determine if your platform is supported, visit open source platforms supported by Arkeia.

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