ExaGrid and PHD Virtual Team Up

ExaGrid
Systems, Inc. and PHD Virtual Technologies, Inc., in
VM backup, recovery and virtualization monitoring solutions, announced a
technology alliance that will provide enhanced virtual data protection for
joint customers.

With data growing at 30% annually, IT
departments are faced with multiple backup and recovery challenges, including
shorter backup windows, more aggressive recovery time objectives, a need for
faster and more reliable DR, management of growing numbers of virtual servers
and the need to do more with tight IT budgets. The combination of ExaGrid and
PHD addresses these challenges by offering customers faster backups, recovery
capabilities, and more efficient DR via offsite disk-based replication for
virtual server environments.

Faster Backups, More Efficient Data
Storage,
and Better DR
PHD Virtual Backup offers fast
performance with scalability, built-in and instant flexible
recovery. The combination of ExaGrid’s and PHD Virtual Backup’s virtual server
data protection solutions allows customers to utilize PHD Virtual Backup in vSphere and XenServer virtual environments on ExaGrid’s
disk-based backup system.

• This combination provides fast backups and efficient data storage as
  well as replication to an offsite location for DR.
• The ExaGrid system leverages PHD Virtual Backup’s built-in backup to
  disk capabilities and ExaGrid’s zone-level data deduplication for additional
  data reduction and cost reduction over standard disk solutions. Customers can
  use PHD Virtual Backup’s TrueDedupe built-in source-side deduplication in
  conjunction with ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system with zone-level
  deduplication to further reduce the amount of backup data.
• Customers can also perform replication of backups to offsite storage
  for DR purposes, without sacrificing performance of critical backup and
  recovery functions.
• The technology alliance with ExaGrid will allow joint customers to
  leverage PHD’s recovery modes, such as Rollback Recovery and PHD Instant
  Recovery, with the ExaGrid disk backup with deduplication solution for reliable
  recovery and advanced functionality at the storage level.

PHD Virtual Backup Instant VM Recovery
from ExaGrid Backup Appliance:
ExaGrid and PHD Virtual Backup also offer the
ability to recover a VM by running it directly from the ExaGrid
appliance in the event of a primary storage outage or other issue that causes
the primary storage VM to become unavailable.

• ExaGrid’s landing zone makes this possible by retaining the
  most recent backup in complete form available for rapid recovery. This means
  ExaGrid can recover VMs in as fast as minutes. With other disk backup
  solutions that only store deduplicated data, the data must be
  ‘rehydrated’ before recovery, resulting in VM recoveries that can
  take hours.
• Using PHD Virtual Backup’s Instant VM Recovery, ExaGrid and PHD
  Virtual Backup customers can run the VM directly from the backup on the ExaGrid
  appliance. Once the primary storage environment has been brought back to a
  working state, the VM running on the ExaGrid appliance can then be moved to primary
  storage for continued operation with zero downtime.

PHD Virtual provides the best value in
virtual backup for VMware and Citrix and monitoring solutions for physical,
virtual and cloud environments. More than 5,000 customers worldwide rely on its
products. ExaGrid is suited for VM backups because the system deduplicates the data after it’s written to disk, which means
users gain the maximum backup and restore speeds available.

Joe Noonan, director of product management
for PHD Virtual: "We are very
excited to announce a technology alliance with ExaGrid. The synergies between
the two products in the areas of redundancy and backup and recovery flexibility
provide customers an excellent value and powerful solution for virtual data
protection."

Marc
Crespi, VP of product management for ExaGrid: "The amount of data in virtual infrastructures is continuing to grow,
putting pressure on IT departments to implement faster and more reliable
virtual data protection. Partnerships such as this one allow IT departments to
confidently expand their virtual environments, keep backup windows permanently
short, easily scale the system as data grows with no forklift upgrades, and
instant recover VMs when needed to avoid costly downtime."