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

September 16, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

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.

Filed Under: Acquisitions, People Tagged With: acq-hire, Alex Mittell, backup, esXPRESS, PHD Technologies, PHD Technologies esXPRESS, R&D, restore, Sridhar Murthy, virtualisation, virtualization, Xtravirt

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

August 25, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

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?

Filed Under: Funding Tagged With: backup, esXPRESS, Funding, investment, PHD Technologies, PHD Technologies esXPRESS, restoration, restore, Sridhar Murthy, venture capital, virtualisation, virtualization

PHD Technologies Appoints Sridhar Murthy As CEO

August 21, 2008 by Robin Wauters 2 Comments

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.

Filed Under: People Tagged With: backup, esXPRESS, PHD Technologies, PHD Technologies esXPRESS, restoration, restore, Sridhar Murthy, virtualisation, virtualization

Veeam Releases Backup 2.0 for VMware Infrastructure

July 30, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

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Veeam Software today announced general availability of Veeam Backup 2.0, a product offering both backup and replication for virtual environments. Version 2.0 includes added functionality, as well as a new optimized backup engine that allows for up to five times faster backup and replication performance than the 1.0 version.

Major new features in Veeam Backup 2.0 include:

  • Five times faster — Veeam Backup 2.0 has a new optimized backup
    engine, which allows for up to five times faster backup and replication
    performance than the previous version.
  • Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support — Veeam Backup 2.0
    leverages VSS to ensure consistent backup and recovery of VSS-aware
    applications, including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft
    SQL Server.
  • ESXi support — Now customers can back up ESXi servers using VMware
    Consolidated Backup (VCB). File-level recovery is fully supported for
    guests running on ESXi, and full image restore is supported to ESX 3.x
    servers. These images can then be VMotioned to ESXi as needed.
  • Enhanced reporting and notification — Comprehensive real-time job
    statistics are available, including automated e-mail notification of backup
    job status, activity and performance details.
  • Backup portability — Veeam Backup users can now easily import backups
    made using previous versions of the software, or backups that have been
    archived to tape.
  • Support for third-party tape backup systems — Now users can specify a
    script to automatically run when the VMware backup is finished, initiating
    tape backups to begin.

Veeam Backup 2.0 is available immediately, and pricing still begins at $499 USD per socket.

Veeam

[Source: MarketWire]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: backup, Backup 2.0, replication, restore, Veeam, Veeam Backup 2.0, Veeam Backup Version 2.0, Veeam Software, virtualisation, virtualization, vmware, VMware Infrastructure

Vizioncore Updates vRanger and vCharter Pro

July 17, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Vizioncore has released an upgrade to its backup and restore solution for virtualization environments, vRanger Pro 3.2.4. With vRanger Pro, administrators can schedule regular image-level backups of virtual or physical machines – while the machine is still running.  Images can be stored either locally in the SAN or sent as compressed files over a WAN to remote locations to support disaster recovery strategies. vRanger Pro also enables restore of individual files efficiently with an explorer tree through which users can easily identify and “grab” needed files.

vRanger Pro 3.2.4 is a minor update to the core 3.2 functionality.  There are two key components of this release: VCB Differential Backups and Support for FIPS encryption. Also included in this release are several bug fixes.

In addition, Vizioncore has released a minor dot release to its enterprise-level virtualization monitoring solution, vCharter Pro 3.0.1.  Key improvements include support for external Oracle databases (versions 9i or 10g) and a significant number of bug fixes. The 3.0.1 version of vCharter Pro now also supports installation on the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: backup, release, restore, update, upgrade, vCharter, vCharter Pro, vCharter Pro 3.0.1, virtualisation, virtualization, virtualization monitoring, Vizioncore, Vizioncore vCharter, Vizioncore vCharter Pro, Vizioncore vCharter Pro 3.0.1, Vizioncore vRanger, Vizioncore vRanger Pro, Vizioncore vRanger Pro 3.2.4, vRanger, vRanger Pro, vRanger Pro 3.2.4

Video: Card Trick & Demo from Maxim Ivanov, Marketing Manager with Veeam Software (VMworld Europe 2008)

February 27, 2008 by Robin Wauters 2 Comments

The interview below is part of our Virtualization Video Series, a recurring theme we want to implement on Virtualization.com featuring interviews with key players from the industry, event reports, etc.

This interview was recorded at VMWorld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France, and features Maxim Ivanov, Marketing Manager with Veeam Software.

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Video blogger: Charbax

Filed Under: Interviews, People, Videos Tagged With: back, card trick, DEMO, disaster recovery, interview, Maxim Ivanov, replication, restore, Veeam, Veeam Software, virtual machine backup, virtualisation, virtualization, virtualization backup

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