New Licensing Option From Arkeia

Arkeia Software announced subscription licensing to help companies lower initial investments while avoiding risks of unprotected data. Arkeia Software now offers both subscription license and perpetual license options so customers can select the pricing model that works better for their needs.

Arkeia Software subscription licensing:

• Minimizes up-front investments and allows organizations to conserve capital budgets and cash
• Means investments may be realized as operational expenses instead of capital investments
• Delivers powerful enterprise backup capabilities with broad disk and tape support, backup replication, hot application and database backup, and support for virtualized environments

Arkeia Subscription Licensing Option means a company’s initial expense is only 40% of the perpetual license investment. Subscriptions are available for 1 and 2 year periods and can be extended on a yearly basis. Furthermore, if needs change, customers can convert a subscription license to a perpetual license at a discounted license price. The new licensing option helps organizations overcome common financing obstacles by lowering costs today.

Flexible Backup Solutions offered
with Flexible Licensing Options
“Despite reduced capital budgets for software, no company can fail to protect its data,” said Bill Evans, CEO of Arkeia Software. “Arkeia’s new subscription licensing delivers on-premises software with a services pricing model. We seek to make our software easy to evaluate, easy to buy, and easy to deploy. These characteristics make us the ideal choice for companies that want to upgrade existing backup solutions. Companies that choose this subscription pricing can reassign resources to personnel and other infrastructure.”

Companies which face high maintenance renewal or high license extension costs from suppliers of monolithic solutions such as Symantec Veritas or EMC Legato now have an option that both provides a great value and that allows for investment flexibility. Additionally, companies which are migrating to the software-as-a-service licensing model or who prefer open source subscription licensing models can now match their license preference with Arkeia enterprise backup solutions.

Arkeia licensing flexibility complements extended product flexibility introduced with the recently announced Version 8 of Arkeia Network Backup Suite. New in Version 8 is support for virtualized environments, including backup of VMware hypervisors and deployment of Arkeia Network Backup as a virtual appliance.