esXpress v3 with VBA technology ushers in new era in VMware Enterprise Backups

    MORRIS PLAINS, N.J., Sept 27 /PRNewswire/ -- PHD Technologies, Inc. (PHD), today announced
the release of esXpress v3 for VMware VI3. With the creation of its patented VBAs, or Virtual
Backup Appliances, PHD has solidified its position as the market leader.

“VBAs allow for a speed, reliability and flexibility never before seen in VMware backups”, 
said Ken Harbin, president of PHD. “By moving process into a virtual machine our backups have
zero impact on the service console. Using virtual machines to backup virtual machines is the 
natural evolution in VMware backups.”

esXpress v3 the only scalable and completely fault tolerant backup solution for Virtual
Infrastructure 3 and ESX 2.x. And with its new backup target failover combined with DRS means
no single point of failure.

And it’s the only VMware backup solution that does not require you to sacrifice security. Since
esXpress v3 does not use the service console network it needs no holes opened in the firewall
and no relaxing of security.

While esXpress 2.3 horizontal scalability was impressive, the ability of esXpress v3 to scale
vertically allows for up to a 900% speed increase on 8-way servers. And because VBAs are kept
isolated in their own resource group, they can never affect overall system performance and cause
you to not make SLA.

And our integration with VirtualCenter means that all backup operations can be performed and
monitored right from within VirtualCenter itself.”

“VMware has asked that third party developers move their products out of the service console
and into the virtual space.”, said Harbin. “VBAs are just the beginning. PHD has some really
amazing technologies planned for the coming year, including file level backup and restore within
the virtual machines. At PHD we use VMware to make VMware better.”