PHD Virtual Backup 6.0

PHD Virtual Technologies, Inc., in virtual machine backup and recovery and virtualization monitoring solutions, announced their solutions are suited for large enterprise environments as well as small businesses with growing data storage, backup and recovery needs.

PHD Virtual Backup 6.0 gives customers of all sizes the scalability and flexibility they need, but for large enterprises, these products make backup processes easier to manage and more efficient, while also providing fully recoverable data at a moment’s notice. They also consume the least amount of overhead and capital when compared to other products on the market and provide encrypted data protection that is required at larger enterprises.

"Customers continue to embrace server virtualization and are increasingly deploying multiple hypervisors," said Robert Amatruda, research director for Data Protection and Recovery at IDC. "PHD Virtual’s Backup 6.0 solution provides customers a cost-effective and easy-to-deploy solution that supports multiple hypervisors and will scale with their virtual environment."

"In addition to the growth we have experienced within the SMB market, we’ve seen a major uptick in our penetration in the larger enterprise environments as well," commented Jim Legg, CEO, PHD Virtual. "The simplicity and cost-savings are definitely not exclusive to the smaller organizations – the ease of use and data movement offsite provides a powerful combination for any size corporation."

PHD Virtual benefits for large enterprises include:

• Complete or partial restorations – provides administrators with the ability to restore a complete server from scratch, by selecting a restore point and target. No agents, no OS install, just restore a complete duplicate of the VM.
• TrueDedupe technology – a source-side deduplication of data, meaning the deduplication and compression of the source data is performed before sending the information across the WAN/LAN and before the data is written to disk. This type of deduplication is critical for enterprises that require disk space to house the backups for massive amounts of data while also being more scalable and pairing down the overall backup window time. PHD performs deduplication by comparing real data existing on the backup target while ensuring to eliminate duplicate copies of data across all VMs stored on the target making it more robust and preventing unnecessary job management to achieve storage efficiencies.
• Parallel processing model – this provides the ability to use multiple data streams for backing up, restoring, and replicating with the result that multiple jobs can run concurrently, In addition, parallel processing allows the user to throttle, increasing or decreasing the resources used for processing to balance the work load and timing of the backup window in the data center.
• Fault tolerant scaling – provides a 100% virtualized footprint for backups running on a Linux-based application that can scale up and out by simply deploying more Virtual Backup Appliances (VBAs) giving the ability to create fault tolerance and load balancing, while providing performance that is required without the extra cost of more physical infrastructure or extra licensing.
• Replication – by backing up VMs once and storing them to disk, PHD Virtual Backup eliminates the need for unnecessary snapshots on your production VMs while maintaining the extra layer of protection of having the replicated VMs located offsite.
• Disaster recovery planning – PHD Virtual provides: 1/ TrueRestore: a verification and self-healing process in which the blocks being backed up are inspected both during the backup and restore functions. By doing this, PHD ensures that the data being backed up is indeed the same data that is going to be restored. 2/ Test-Mode: provides the ability to run replicated VMs in a test mode located in a standby environment. This gives peace of mind that the standby VM has been verified, is completely operational and can be properly failed over.
• Data recovery – Instant Restore provides more savvy recovery methods by allowing administrators to power on the backup VMs and begin a restore process simultaneously. By doing so, it provides immediate access to servers and applications and also leverages concurrent data streams, allowing them to implement a technology called ‘mass restore,’ which creates and configures a single restore job that will process multiple VMs at the same time, again reducing complexity and reducing the company’s RTO. Granular restore is more common than a complete data center restore, so PHD has provided support within their products to restore a file, virtual disk within a VM, or single application object, such as an email, mailbox, datastore, database, table, etc. This feature provides the functionality to restore only what you need, when you need it, without setting up any virtual labs or sandboxes to speed up recovery time and prevent unnecessary data loss.
• Backing up a constantly evolving data center – Allows administrators to plug a backup appliance or VBA into virtually any environment, including the cloud or software defined data center (SDDC) or a remote or branch office, ensuring data is safe and recoverable.

"PHD Virtual does VMware backup better than anyone else, especially for enterprises like us," said Barry Quiel, SunGard Public Sector, California. "For our large environment, we needed someone that specialized in moving lots of virtual machine data, while storing as little as possible of it. We also need plenty of options to handle how we move data off-site and to tape. PHD Virtual gives us all of the options we needed to make sure our VMware environment meets our enterprise data protection requirements."