Bacula Enterprise Edition 4.0

Bacula Systems, provider of commercial open source backup and restore software, announced the availability of Bacula Enterprise Edition 4.0, delivering advanced backup features from open source software.

         Bacula Enterprise Edition 4.0 Components

The announcement continues Bacula System’s commitment to offering a highly scalable, modern, open source backup and restore solution to the enterprise, through accelerated development of the Bacula project, and by delivering highest quality professional support to the IT industry.

The primary features
of the Bacula Enterprise Edition 4.0 include:

• BWeb Enterprise Management Center to manage multiple data centers.
• Scalability up to thousands of servers and clients.
• Modern, modular and multi-threaded design.
• Stable network backup and data verification in large IT environments.
• Advanced levels of security built in every layer.
• Backup to disk, tape, and robotic media libraries.
• High availability in a clustered environment
• File level deduplication.
• MySQL and Postgres database compatibility.
• Improved Microsoft VSS functionality.
• New Windows plug-ins such as registry, systemstate, Active Directory, Exchange and SharePoint.
• Windows bare metal recovery.
• Bacula Systems Support Services.
• Long term support for Enterprise Edition 4.0 – minimum of 4 years.

Since Bacula Systems announced earlier this year that Bacula had passed the one million download milestone (now 1.33 million), more large enterprises, such as Netlog, have chosen to adopt Bacula Systems’ Subscription services and enterprise-class solution in order to modernize their IT environment and drive costs down.

Netlog, an online social portal available in 37 languages with more than 63 million members throughout Europe, found the licensing terms of its proprietary backup software inflexible, inhibiting its ability to scale to meet market demands. "We needed to find a highly scalable product with modern architecture, that reduced costs and was flexible enough to support all our systems, so Bacula was the best backup product we could use," said Nicolas Van Eenaeme, Director of ITS, Netlog.

Bacula Systems earlier this year launched its Accelerated Development Initiative, which is focused on developing enterprise-class features and modules for the Bacula project to further bring open source backup and restore to large enterprises. As part of this initiative, Bacula Systems is announcing the BWeb Enterprise Edition, a multipurpose web-based graphical user interface management and monitoring tool for Bacula Enterprise Edition. 

"The Bacula Systems Accelerated Development Initiative has resulted in many new technical features, including the ‘BWeb Enterprise Management Center’ which can manage multiple Bacula installations for very large enterprises," said Dr. Kern Sibbald, CTO and Chairman of Bacula Systems, and founder of the Bacula project. "Modules for added Oracle backup capabilities are also near completion, and will further add to the value of the Bacula Systems Subscription," added Sibbald.

Bacula Systems also  announced the availability of its new service to small and medium businesses: a special ‘Lite’ subscription for small deployments that gives access to leading Bacula engineers and support team, and access to Bacula patches – all available through its web portal.

"Bacula Systems offers the most popular open source backup product in the market today, and frees the enterprise from vendor lock-in," said Jack Griffin CEO, Bacula Systems. "No company should feel forced to pay the outrageous licensing fees typical of today’s proprietary backup vendors. Our customers only pay for real, direct value; not licensing," added Griffin.