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PHD Virtual Transforms Virtual Landscape with Launch of Cloud Backup and Recovery Module
PHILADELPHIA --(Business Wire)--
PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual
machine backup and recovery, and innovator of virtualization
monitoring solutions, announced today the introduction of PHD
Virtual 6.2 with CloudHook™, the first and only solution on the
market to offer powerful local VM backup capabilities, as well as a
seamless link to public or private cloud storage for offsite backups.
The latest release of PHD's Virtual Backup and Replication includes a
module for virtual backup to the cloud making it easy, seamless and
affordable for small to medium-sized businesses to backup and recover
data to and from the cloud at the touch of a button.
With PHD
Virtual 6.2 with CloudHook, customers can avoid buying and managing
costly cloud gateway appliances and cumbersome tape or other storage
media for offsite backups. The PHD Virtual Backup Appliance (VBA) now
gives you an easy-to-configure option in the cloud that removes all of
that complexity. The best part is that you can recover just as easily
from the cloud as you can from your local backups. Getting set up is
quick and easy -- one click in the PHD console backs up data to the
customer's choice of popular third party cloud providers, such as
Amazon, Google, Rackspace (News - Alert) or another private/public cloud provider
storage. All provide the flexibility to scale as data storage needs
increase.
"We needed a virtual backup solution, and also the ability to integrate
with Amazon cloud storage," said Peter Canale, IT Director at Ben Tire.
"We knew Veeam had a Cloud Edition and PHD Virtual has CloudHook. We
went with PHD CloudHook as it was a much more affordable option for us,
and much easier to setup and use. Also PHD provides much more robust
recovery from the cloud because with Rollback Recovery, you only have to
restore the changes over the wire."
"Traditional recovery from the cloud can present the challenge of how to
move an entire VM back to the local data center. Large files can be
impractical to send over the Internet so shipping a disk may be the only
option. PHD Virtual is addressing this cloud recovery challenge in its
latest CloudHook module, with a unique capability called Rollback
Recovery," said George Crump, president and founder, Storage
Switzerland, a leading independent analyst firm. "With this capability
users can achieve much faster RTOs for full VM recovery from the cloud.
This has been a key issue with many cloud backup solutions, and PHD
makes recovery a top priority."
PHD customers can use cloud storage as the main backup storage target to
avoid managing backup storage completely. They could also implement a
hybrid storage model that includes critical VM backups on local storage
to meet fast recovery time objectives, as well as backups in the cloud
for less critical VMs. Otherwise, they could simply use cloud storage
for a basic offsite backp option. The flexibility to leverage the cloud
as a legitimate target for backups is there with PHD.
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"We are very proud to offer a no worries, no hassle offsite backup
solution for customers that is still priced for affordability and
scalability," said Joe Noonan, Senior Product Manger, PHD Virtual
Technologies. "With PHD CloudHook, customers retain onsite control and
recovery of backups with the added assurance of offsite cloud storage.
That's peace of mind for pennies---an unsurpassed value that small
businesses have been asking for but unable to get until now."
PHD's Virtual Backup 6.2 with CloudHook builds on its unique, patented
virtual appliance architecture to deliver the most powerful,
feature-filled, easy to use backup solution for virtual servers at a
fraction of the cost of competitive alternatives. The newly added cloud
backup features include:
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Built in Data Reduction: PHD Virtual incorporates change
tracking, source-side data deduplication and compression to send as
little data as possible to the backup target which becomes a big
advantage when dealing with low-bandwidth, high-latency connections
over the Internet.
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Assured Security: PHD provides government grade encryption both
in transit and at rest on the backup target. As users send important
data over the Internet to 3rd party storage, it is
important that the data is secure.
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Local Caching: Transferring data over the Internet has
performance limitations. PHD's CloudHook adds the benefit of local
caching to significantly boost performance and reliability of the data
transfer.
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Flexible Retention: PHD's Virtual Full backup mode offers the
most flexible retention available for virtualization backup. Due to
the enhancements gained from CloudHook, users can freely leverage
Virtual Full backups and the great benefits they provide for flexible
long-term retention with high deduplication.
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True Forever Incremental Backups: The first backup to the cloud
can be time consuming and resource intensive. Once the first backup is
complete, customers do not want to perform periodic full backups, or
even synthetic full backups that introduce additional processing and
risk of corruption. PHD's Virtual Full mode never requires any
periodic or synthetic full backups, ensuring the most efficient
Internet data transfer to cloud storage.
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About PHD Virtual Technologies
PHD
Virtual provides the absolute best value in virtual
backup and monitoring
for VMware and Citrix platforms. More than 5,000
customers worldwide rely on our products because they are effective,
easier to use and far more affordable than competitive alternatives.
Delivering the highest performance and most scalable cross platform
backup and monitoring solutions on the market and pioneer of Virtual
Backup Appliances (VBAs), PHD Virtual Technologies has been
transforming data protection for virtual IT environments since 2006. Its PHD
Virtual Monitor provides a complete, end-to-end solution for
monitoring virtual, physical and application infrastructures in VMware
and Citrix environments. For more information, please visit: http://www.phdvirtual.com/
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