Network backup solutions company Arkeia Software announced the availability
of Arkeia Network Backup Version 8 in the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
repository as a free small-network package aimed at Ubuntu users.
Fully licensed Arkeia Network Backup, Enterprise Edition for Ubuntu can be
downloaded from the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
repository by using the Synaptic Package Manager or with the "apt-get"
command.
Arkeia Network Backup, Enterprise Edition for Ubuntu is not time-limited,
and one free, perpetual license is granted per individual or company with only Web
registration required. The enterprise license includes one backup server
running on Ubuntu; up to 250GB of capacity for backup to disk; support of any
single drive, tape or disk; and two client agents to back up different types of
client machines, including Windows workstations and desktops, and a majority of
Linux machines, Mac OS X and BSD computers.
The package is available now for download from Ubuntu’s repository and can
be accessed via the Synaptic Package Manager or by typing the "apt-get
install arkeia" command. The solution features a user-friendly Web
interface, and the company said source-side data deduplication will be
available in early 2010. More than 150 applications and platforms are supported
with specific packages.
“Ubuntu has been adopted by millions of users because of its ease of use,
speed and affordability,” said Dave Elliott, vice president of marketing at
Arkeia. “As Canonical [a promoter of free software] and Ubuntu move into larger
environments, Arkeia is proud to provide Network Backup, which is similarly
fast, easy to use and affordable.”
Steve George, vice president of sales and product management of corporate
services at Canonical, said Arkeia’s Network Backup solution is a proven
network backup solution with broad platform support and a robust enterprise
feature set. “With the Arkeia Network Backup Enterprise Edition for Ubuntu,
Arkeia Software makes a significant commitment to the Ubuntu user community and
supports Ubuntu’s ongoing growth in the enterprise.”
Last week, Arkeia announced the acquisition of Kadena Systems, a provider of
next-generation data deduplication technologies. Arkeia will integrate Kadena’s
deduplication technology to deliver source-side data deduplication in Arkeia
Network Backup.
“Data deduplication at the source in backup processes is gaining adoption,
since it can enable greater end-to-end efficiency, such as faster backup. Network
bandwidth, the bottleneck in network backup, can be significantly reduced
because duplicate data does not traverse the network,” said Lauren Whitehouse,
a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “According to our research,
customers are more concerned with efficiency, citing cost, ease of integration,
ease of use and performance as top factors for selecting data deduplication.
The Arkeia-Kadena approach of offering deduplication as an integrated backup
solution promises to address all of these top issues.”
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