PHD Virtual Sold 500 Licenses of CloudHook

PHD Virtual Technologies, Inc. announced that its new
CloudHook backup feature is off to a great start with more than 500 licenses
sold in the first 90 days.

"We really like the new CloudHook
feature from PHD Virtual. It makes for such an easy off-site backup target, and
because I can still recover quickly, I can configure long-term retention in the
cloud and use less local storage for backups," said Steve Yuroff, network
and system administrator, The Hiebing Group Inc, an integrated marketing and branding
agency with a knack for target-market-led thinking.

With PHD Virtual 6.2 with CloudHook, customers can avoid buying and managing
costly cloud gateway appliances and cumbersome tape or other storage media for
offsite backups. The PHD Virtual Backup Appliance (VBA) now gives an option in the cloud that removes complexity.
The best part is that recovery is just as easy from the cloud as from local
backups. Getting set up is easy – one click in the PHD console
backs up data to the customer’s choice of popular third party cloud providers,
such as Amazon, Google, Rackspace or
another private/public cloud provider storage. All provide the flexibility to
scale as data storage needs increase.

"The product works like a charm,"
said Kris Krahn, IT manage, Kalkomey Enterprises, Inc., provider of
recreational safety education materials for all 50 states. "I use it with some of my critical VMs as
secondary backups, and it works great. 
As with all the PHD products, it set up quickly and I never need to
worry about it."

Later this year, PHD plans to enhance its cloud backup capabilities with a
brand new backup archiving capability. Instead of backing up directly to the
cloud, you can back up locally, and then copy the backup data to the cloud,
putting less stress on the virtual environment during the cloud backup process.

One of the benefits of the new archiving capability is that PHD
Virtual has made its global deduplicated backup store mobile and granular. The
PHD VBA is savvy enough to find the blocks needed just for those VMs, and redo
the deduplication across all the archived backups in the cloud for maximum
efficiency and granularity. Users will be able to set different retention
settings for the local backups and the cloud archives. PHD Backup Archiving
will also support network and SAN storage targets, as well as cloud storage.

"More than ever, it is important to
be easy, fast, efficient and priced affordably in our industry," said
Joe Noonan, senior product manager, PHD Virtual. "Proof that CloudHook meets those criteria is the fact that we are
bringing on five new customers per day and have sold 122 years of subscriptions
in this small amount of time. We are thrilled with the market acceptance and
looking forward to serving more customers with additional feature sets in the
near future."