PHD Technologies also announces it's VBA technology now supports AES 256-bit encryption

MORRIS PLAINS, N.J., Sept 10 /PRNewswire/ -- PHD Technologies, Inc. (PHD), the leading innovator in virtual infrastructure backup solutions, today announced the release of esXpress v3.1 Virtual Backup Appliance which now provides for simultaneous file and image level backup of Windows and Linux virtual machines.

Using our revolutionary, patent pending Fast FLB Technology, esXpress can run both image and file level backups of virtual machines simultaneously. For most companies this literally halves the backup window required, while also producing backup sets that are completely time consistent.

With traditional backup technologies the file system is ever changing while the backup is taking place. For example, a backup that starts at midnight and takes two hours to complete, represents an approximation of what the server looked like between 12am and 2am. With esXpress, while the backup may still take two hours to complete, the archive created is a complete point in time snapshot of the virtual machine at exactly 12am for a completely time consistent backup.

"This is a revolutionary advance in virtual machine backups", said Ron McKelvey, CTO at PHD Technologies. "And not just in speed and reliability. Administrators now have the ability to use one product to backup their virtual environment regardless of platform, whereas before they may have used as many as three separate products".

And with support for all major virtualization platforms, using esXpress across the entire virtual infrastructure not only allows companies to reduce their hard costs like licensing, but the hidden soft costs, including maintenance and training.

Also included in version 3.1 is the ability to create encrypted backups of the images as well as password protection of the file level archives. "A virtual machine not only contains your data, but the operating system and applications needed to access and make sense of that data", said McKelvey. "For this reason we have introduced the only encrypted backup option for any virtualization platform. This not only helps ensure regulatory compliance, but can also eliminates the need to make costly and embarrassing public disclosure if your archives are ever lost or misplaced".

Whether its government records, patient medical histories, or simply because you store your backups off-site, with government standard AES-256bit encryption, you know your data is safe.

About PHD Technologies, Inc.

With headquarters in Morris Plains, NJ, PHD Technologies is the leading provider of backup, restoration and replication software for all major virtualization platforms. PHD is the original innovator of Virtual Backup Appliance technologies.