PHD Technologies, provider of the esXpress VBA data protection solution for virtualized infrastructures, today reported stellar results for 2008 .
In 2008 PHD achieved 200% revenue growth, strong profitability, and was recognized with SearchServerVirtualization.com’s 2008 Products of the Year Gold Award in Data Protection and Best of VMWorld Gold Award in Data Protection. Currently more than 1,400 customers use esXpress. Customer growth has been accelerated by PHD’s expansion of its network of worldwide distribution partners, including the recent global reseller additions in Asia-Pacific, Datastor and ECS Technologies.
esXpress is a horizontally scalable solution with customers that span multiple verticals and company sizes. The award-winning product is used by Fortune 500 companies such as ADP, Dell, Hess, IBM, Intel and Lockheed Martin; Mid-size companies such as Budd Van Lines and Panera Bread; Higher education institutions such as Indiana University, Oxford University and Yale University, as well as Service companies such as Ernst Young and Hewitt Associates.
esXpress’ growth demonstrates the success of the product’s differentiated VBA technology and flexible per host pricing model. This pricing model provides a significant cost advantage to customers because it requires no additional hardware or software.