Quadric Software

Alike v2.1 Boosts Backup Speeds 8X and Delivers Other Performance Improvements While Minimizing Storage and Bandwidth Costs

BURLINGTON VT — Sept. 07, 2011 — QuorumSoft, a world leading provider of deduplicating archival solutions for virtualized environments, today announced the general availability of Alike™ Version 2.1, a new generation solution for Citrix XenServer backup and disaster recovery. Alike v2.1 delivers significant enhancements, including dramatically faster backup performance, more flexible deployment options, and innovative new ways to minimize bandwidth and storage costs.

With Alike v2.1, multiple virtual machines (VMs) can be backed up concurrently, giving XenServer users the ability to scale the solution to meet their unique requirements. Alike v2.1 also includes the ability to backup and replicate a virtual machine in a single pass, choose push or pull replication flow, and other advanced capabilities. To provide companies with the flexibility to balance their resource utilization, QuorumSoft offers the choice of either source-side or target-side deduplication.

“We created Alike v2.1 in direct response to what Citrix XenServer users worldwide have said they wanted—a flexible way to reduce the time and expense of protecting critical business environments and avoiding disruptions to their operations,” said Phil Baskette, founder and CEO, Quorum Software, Inc. “Alike v2.1 is an important milestone in our long-term strategy to continually create new and innovative backup and disaster recovery solutions.”

Alike v2.1 also enables companies to:
•Easily and efficiently keep an up-to-date version of their backup history offsite
•Manage all backup and replication tasks without using cumbersome command line configuration
•Tailor any backup and replication schedule to their needs, using a flexible job scheduling engine
•Leverage any CIFS compliant storage system
•Schedule the export of XVA archives to disk
•Deploy Alike on physical or virtual machines.

About Alike

Flexible, affordable, and easy to use, Alike offers a competitive suite of powerful backup and recovery solutions for XenServer, Hyper-V, and Windows physical platforms. Our Alike DR disaster recovery features include enhanced replication and offsite vaulting to secure your assets and protect your business from disaster, while minimizing downtime and maximizing your system’s valuable resources. Put simply, we make software to make your life easier.

For more information or questions about pricing, contact us at any time to get a custom quote based on your needs, or put Alike DR to the test in your environment with our 30-day free trial.