PHD Virtual 6.5 Provides DR for Exchange and SharePoint

PHD
Virtual Technologies, Inc. announced the availability of products including its PHD
Virtual Backup 6.5, which provides methods for virtual and
cloud-based data protection and recovery for Exchange and SharePoint.

In adition, new ReliableDR 3.2 gives
companies integration of traditionally separate backup and DR
processes by automating failover and recovery verification with PHD
Virtual Backup. As part of
the company’s mission to give customers the freedom to leverage the
best virtual backup product with their hypervisor of choice, it
announced plans to support Hyper-V, making it the only agentless
virtual backup company to support Microsoft, Citrix and VMware.

Reliable
DR 3.2 – a DR assurance solution that automates recovery within
service level agreements.
features involve integration with PHD Virtual Backup.
CertifiedReplica automates failover and recovery verification for PHD
Virtual Backup.

Recovery
Management Suite – a unified solution that provides data
protection and guaranteed DR for virtual and cloud environments to
help eliminate risks of recovery failures.

"With these new
announcements PHD Virtual delivers the industry’s only integrated
virtual backup and DR assurance solution,"
said Joe Noonan, director product management, PHD Virtual.
"With the Recovery Management Suite, we have been able
to meet the recovery needs of any customer from granular files to
applications, business services and complete sites."

"PHD’s integration of the DR functionality they acquired
from VirtualSharp is a differentiator in the crowded field of VM data
protection," said
Dave Simpson, senior storage analyst, 451
Research LLC. "This
puts PHD in front of the trend toward fully integrated backup and DR,
providing a single solution for end users rather than forcing them to
buy separate products from different vendors.
Support for all three of the leading hypervisors is another
differentiator."

Features include:

• 
  Backup Archiving: Copy backup data offsite, to the cloud, or
  to removable disk devices and select specific VM backups to be copied
  or keep a copy of all backups in synch with another location.
  Customers can archive from multiple source locations to a
  single remote location, leverage different retention policies for
  archived backups and recover VMs and guest files from archived
  backups, even those in the cloud.

• Interval Backup and
  Replication Scheduling: Applications typically require aggressive
  RPOs. The software provides
  granular interval scheduling down to every 15 minutes, offering
  customers a storage agnostic solution that provides DR assurance when
  coupled with ReliableDR.

• 
  PHD Virtual Backup for Microsoft Hyper-V: The company
  announced its plans to support Hyper-V targeted for release in Q4
  2013. Focusing on virtualization technologies available with
  Windows Server 2012, and equipped with a web-based interface paving
  the road for the product’s architecture, it will deliver
  purpose-built VM data protection and recovery with global dedupe in
  its first Hyper-V release.

• 
  Microsoft Exchange / Microsoft SharePoint Recovery: Provides
  Exchange and SharePoint recovery.
  This functionality is powered by Ontrack
  PowerControls and is available in all VMware and Citrix
  enterprise editions of PHDVB.
  Exchange and SharePoint recovery allow users to search within backups
  for specific items of those applications and recover them to files or
  directly back to the production app.

"PHD has always been flexible with application recovery by
exposing backup data instantly for tools like Ontrack PowerControls
to search and recover almost anything a user needs,"
continued Noonan. "Now it is completely embedded into
our enterprise editions, and PHD will be one of the first to support
both of these applications within an agentless backup product."

This application will be powered by a partner of the company,
Kroll Ontrack, Inc.

"This
partnership with PHD Virtual enables their channel partners and
customers to offer a proven and powerful tool that addresses common,
but time-consuming problems such as granular search and restore for
Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint," said Dean
Hager, president and CEO, Kroll Ontrack. "Because
Ontrack PowerControls works directly with PHD Virtual backups to
extract and restore only needed items, IT administrators can cut
restoration time by 50 percent when compared to using traditional
methods."

"PHD really has something here for DR as a Service for VMware
environments," said Jason Casey, CEO, Priorpoint,
LLC. "They’re
doing things that are unheard of in the virtual world, and we need
high quality enabling technology like this to deliver high quality
services to our most demanding clients."

"We’ve used PHD for years and continue to get excited
about their technology with every release," said Erwin
Hollaar, system administrator, Verkerk
Groep. "The
additional offsite protection you get with v6.5
gives us even more options for BC, and the recovery
verification and failover options with ReliableDR 3.2
is cutting edge stuff."