Free Virtual Backup for Hyper-V by PHD Virtual/Unitrends for Limited Time

PHD Virtual Technologies Inc. (a Unitrends company) announced a limited time offer of free virtual backup for Hyper-V.

PHD Virtual Backup 7 for Hyper-V provides data protection for Hyper-V environments free of charge. Powered by the Virtual Backup 7 architecture, this solution ensures access to data with minimal impact on production applications. 

Benefits include:

• Performance

• Scalability and simplified management           

• Multiple recovery methods

• Environment-wide reporting and interactive dashboards

• Elimination of extra hardware, software and training

• Free local backup for Hyper-V

“Being a healthcare system, we are subject to HIPAA regulations requiring quick recovery of data from disks, and PHD Virtual’s backup solution for Hyper-V gives us an ideal way to meet these requirements,” said Aaron Koch, manager of information systems, Northwest Health Systems “Other solutions we looked at were too complicated, unreliable and not designed to meet the specific needs of a virtual environment. PHD’s innovative approach of using a virtual backup appliance to backup VMs is easy to use, highly reliable and has far less impact on the production environment. On top of that, it’s being offered for free.“

Offering data protection that leverages the image-based backup technology, it :

• Supports all three major hypervisors – PHD Virtual is the only vendor supporting Microsoft, VMware and Citrix without requiring agents in the guest VM.

• Provides reporting – A web-based interface features a dashboard with reporting for a customer’s entire backup environment.

• Delivers global dedupe – It uses built-in, multi-stage dedupe technology that averages a dedupe ratio of up to 25:1 to reduce storage requirements by more than 90%.

• Assures block level verification – The solution uses data transfer to detect corrupted data during backup and corrects it.

• Leverages v7 architecture – The v7 architecture provides scalability and data management capabilities. 

“With this release, PHD Virtual becomes the only agentless virtual backup company to support Microsoft, VMware and Citrix,” said Joe Noonan, senior product manager, PHD Virtual. “This enables our customers to leverage the best virtual backup product with their hypervisor of choice – at no cost.“