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PHD Technologies Becomes PHD Virtual, Gives Away Virtualization Tools Free Of Charge

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PHD Virtual Technologies, provider of the esXpress high availability data protection solution for virtual IT, was unveiled today as the new corporate brand for PHD Technologies. Along with the new corporate identity, PHD Virtual is also introducing its new website, featuring free virtualization utility downloads (originally developed by xtravirt).

They include:

  • VMNetBac 1.2.0 – VMNetBac allows customers to backup and restore the network configuration of a virtual machine. VMNetBac is a quick recovery tool to minimize the risk of losing network configurations when intrusive or mass-upgrade type tasks are performed.
  • Virtual SAN 1.0.0 – This Virtual SAN appliance for VMware ESX 3 Server provides the benefits of shared VMFS storage without the cost of a SAN. It utilizes, otherwise unused, local storage in the ESX server to facilitate enterprise-level features such as vMotion, DRS and HA.
  • SnapHunter 0.5.3 – SnapHunter is an ESX 3 Service Console utility which reports back on the Snapshot status of virtual machines from multiple ESX Servers.
  • KS QuickConfig 1.3.0 – KS QuickConfig is a Windows GUI utility that reduces the time needed to deploy and configure VMware ESX 3 servers, and to eliminate inconsistencies that can arise with manual operations.

The new PHD Virtual site also provides a full-featured trial download of the company’s award winning, scalable esXpress data protection solution for virtual IT. esXpress enables companies to perform autonomous, fault-tolerant backup and restoration of an entire virtual environment in less time at lower cost with a virtual backup appliance (VBA). These small virtual machines can be deployed in minutes on an ESX server to autonomously conduct hot full or “virtual full” backups of virtual machines. esXpress can be deployed with minimal impact on virtual server, console or network performance and requires no additional hardware or software investment.

PHD Technologies / esXpress Doing Fine, Thank You For Asking

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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.

PHD Technologes “Acq-hires” Xtravirt Co-founder Alex Mittell

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PHD Technologies (previous coverage), provider of the esXPRESS data protection solution for virtualized infrastructures, today announced the acquisition of UK-based Xtravirt’s suite of virtualization products. As part of the transaction, Xtravirt co-founder, Alex Mittell, will join PHD Technologies as Director of Research & Development. Xtravirt will continue to partner with PHD Technologies as a distributor of esXPRESS to existing and new Xtravirt customers in the UK.

The virtualization tools acquired by PHD Technologies’ will benefit managers of virtualization infrastructures. These include VI3 SnapHunter, a virtual machine snapshot reporter; VI3 PatchDownloader, an automated downloader of VMware ESX patches; VISBU, an infrastructure backup utility and KS Quick Config, a tool to speed up the deployment and configuration of VMware ESX 3 servers.

Alex Mittell is widely known as a technical expert and thought leader in the virtualization community. Prior to co-founding Xtravirt, he worked at Oxford University in the UK as a virtual architect, setting up the university’s virtual infrastructure. Mittell will continue to be based in London.

PHD Technologies Hires Igor Saulsky To Sell More Of Its esXPRESS Solution

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PHD Technologies (previous coverage include their undisclosed funding round and the appointment of CEO Sridhar Murthy), provider of the esXPRESS data protection solution for virtualized infrastructures, today announced the addition of Igor Saulsky as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales.  Saulsky brings more than two and a half decades of software product and corporate sales experience to lead the company’s global sales efforts.

Saulsky spent nine years at Symantec/Veritas Software, during which time the company’s sales grew from $70 million to $2 billion.  Saulsky held a variety of instrumental sales roles, including managing the worldwide sales launch of Veritas’ Storage Virtualization and Computing Utility solutions, and leading the Symantec/Veritas sales integration in the New York region.

More recently, Saulsky led sales organizations at Ingres and Quest Software, where he was responsible for recruiting, training, and managing regional enterprise sales teams.  He joins PHD Technologies from Sunpower Corporation.

PHD Technologies Officially Announces Funding Round, Fails To Share Any Details

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Remember last week when we reported on PHD Technologies, provider of the esXPRESS backup and restoration solution for virtualized infrastructures, announcing the appointment of Sridhar Murthy as the company’s CEO?

The press release also mentioned a fresh funding round, but was scarce on details. Today, the company decided to let us in on the questions we all ask when a new investment in a virtualization company is made: who decided to invest, and how much?

Except you won’t find any answers in their newest official press release either, except for the fact that it concerns “an equity investment from a top tier venture capital firm”. The rest of the press release was the usual marketingese, but I really wondered why PHD Technologies decided it was worth sending a press release containing absolutely no new information whatsoever?

PHD Technologies Appoints Sridhar Murthy As CEO

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PHD Technologies, provider of the esXPRESS backup and restoration solution for virtualized infrastructures, today announced the appointment of Sridhar Murthy as the company’s chief executive officer.

For the past two years, Murthy served as chief operating officer and chief financial officer at TicketsNow.com. During his tenure, the company doubled its revenues. Prior to this, Murthy was chief financial officer and vice president of operations at Collabnet, a provider of hosted enterprise solutions for distributed and outsourced software development. Earlier in his career, Murthy held finance and operations leadership positions at Get2Chip, Ariba Inc. and Remedy Corporation.

PHD Technologies recently received a significant equity investment from a top tier venture firm to help fund new product development and geographic expansion. In Q1 2008, esXPRESS surpassed the 1000th customer milestone.