Wick Hill Ships Barracuda Backup 5.2

Wick
Hill Ltd. announced the availability of Barracuda
5.2 with Cloud LiveBoot.

This version extends Barracuda Backup
LiveBoot recovery technology to the cloud, enabling customers to boot
VMware images they have replicated to the cloud by pulling data from
deduplicated storage, as it is needed. This functionality is included
at no additional charge to customers with Energize updates and
Instant replacement subscriptions.

It offers a business backup
solution for mixed physical and virtual server environments. LiveBoot
for VMware enables a VM to be booted directly off the server’s
deduplicated backup storage live, getting businesses up and running
again.

With version 5.2, customers can extend
Barracuda LiveBoot for VMware to the cloud using the company’s
virtualisation infrastructure. In addition to recovery and reducing
downtime, it provides customers a platform for testing the validity
of their backups, granular restores, and testing applications outside
of their production environments.

Ian Kilpatrick, chairman, Wick Hill
Group, commented: "This is a major feature for new and
existing Barracuda backup customers, who are using VMware. It
provides organisations with security, continuity and a testing
environment."

Customers will benefit
from
the same capabilities as before:

• Restore and Availability
  Options – It features a restore browser where administrators
  can recover a whole server (physical or virtual), can restore folders
  and individual files from a single pass backup, or can restore to the
  copy cloud and share data with other copy users.

• Elastic Recovery Resources –
  Integration with the customer’s VMware environment provides
  flexibility on the compute resources applied to recovered servers. It
  sets a standard for assured storage and retrieval while
  minimising storage costs and administration effort.