WD, a Western Digital company,
announced an expansion of its product portfolio addressing small- and
medium-sized businesses with the addition of network backup software and
appliances from Arkeia Software, Inc., a privately held data protection
company based in Carlsbad, Calif., recently acquired by WD. WD also announced
that the Arkeia Network Backup version 10.0 software, for which a release
candidate was delivered in Dec. 2012, becomes generally available (http://www.arkeia.com/new-in-v100)
today.
“Arkeia’s products expand
WD’s growing product portfolio of solutions for small- and medium-sized
businesses,” said Jim Welsh, executive vice president and general manager of
WD’s Branded and CE products. “SMB organizations are managing ever-growing
volumes of critical business data, which need to be stored, shared and secured.
Our easy-to-manage small storage server, WD Sentinel™ DX4000, provides backup
and storage centralization capabilities for small businesses and workgroups,
while Arkeia’s network backup software provides a more feature-rich
data-protection solution for larger SMB customers.”
The acquisition was completed
through a merger transaction, encompassing all of the employees, technology and
products of Arkeia. Arkeia will be integrated into WD’s Branded Products SMB
unit and the products initially will retain the Arkeia name. WD will support
all Arkeia customers on current maintenance and plans to retain both Arkeia’s
software and appliance product lines. Financial terms of the transaction were
not disclosed.
“Joining WD gives the Arkeia
team a great opportunity to accelerate adoption of Arkeia’s innovative
technologies and products,” said Bill Evans, senior director of worldwide
software marketing at WD and former CEO of Arkeia Software. “The Arkeia team is
delighted to be a part of WD. WD has chosen an ideal moment to invest in this
critical product category as backup-to-disk solutions accelerate their
displacement of backup-to-tape. WD’s financial strength, engineering excellence
and organizational discipline will take Arkeia’s products and customers to the
next level.”
Arkeia Network Backup v10.0
General Availability
Arkeia Network Backup v10.0
enables hybrid cloud backups by allowing administrators to combine physical
media and Internet transport to replicate backup sets to or from remote cloud
storage. Leveraging Arkeia’s advanced Progressive Deduplication technology;
Arkeia Network Backup v10.0 permits SMB organizations to protect large data
volumes in the cloud without incurring high monthly bandwidth charges. By
allowing large backup sets to be moved on physical media and small backup sets
to be sent over the wire, Arkeia makes it practical to replicate backup sets
from a LAN to remote cloud storage for an inexpensive, tape-free alternative to
off-site backup and recovery. More information can be found at: www.wd.com and www.arkeia.com.
