PHD Virtual Technologies Announces immediate availability of PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer

PHILADELPHIA, PA – August 25, 2010 – PHD Virtual Technologies, pioneer and innovator in backup and recovery for virtual machines, announces immediate availability of PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer®. The new backup and recovery solution is purpose-built for the growing number of virtualized XenServer environments and is verified to work with XenServer as part of the Citrix Ready® program.

PHD Virtual provides the ability to back up and restore business-critical information quickly and efficiently, directly within the XenCenter® management console, providing a single pane of glass to manage virtual machine backups. With support for XenServer, XenDesktop® and XenApp™ customers can leverage the same solution across their entire virtual environment.

"PHD Virtual is a value-added XenServer ecosystem partner," said Lou Shipley, Group Vice President and General Manager, XenServer Product Group, Citrix Systems. "The new PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer product provides our joint customers a robust, integrated and scalable backup and recovery solution as they accelerate the virtualization of mission critical applications."

"We are excited about the release of PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer," said Ryan Spaeth, Senior Engineer, Mason Valley Quicknet. "Our testing of the beta release has demonstrated that we can reduce our backup window and decrease the time it takes to restore virtual machines in our environment. The direct integration with XenCenter gives us a solution that is incredibly easy to use and provides a single location to configure and manage all of our virtual machine backups."

PHD Virtual Backup is recognized as the most scalable backup and recovery solution on the market with the highest performance for virtualized servers. Leveraging the unique VBA™ Architecture, PHD Virtual delivers a robust backup solution that integrates directly into the virtualization infrastructure leveraging virtual appliances for backup and recovery of virtual machines. This unique approach provides a solution that efficiently scales to meet growing demand without the need for dedicated proxy servers, additional hardware or software agents.

"We are seeing growing adoption of XenServer as our customers increasingly virtualize their critical workloads and are excited to extend our award winning backup and recovery technology to the XenServer platform," said Thomas Charlton, Chairman and CEO of PHD Virtual Technologies. "This new product complements our strategy of providing best in class backup and disaster recovery for virtual infrastructure and supports our customers desire to have flexible solutions for heterogeneous hypervisor environments. Feedback from our beta testers has confirmed that our solution is fast, efficient and easy to integrate into their XenServer environments."

Customers can dramatically accelerate reliable backup and recovery of XenServer virtual machines leveraging unique patent pending technologies included in PHD Virtual Backup:

• TrueDedupe™ Technology – patent pending source-side data deduplication and compression technology dramatically reduces the amount of data stored across multiple virtual machine backups reducing network bandwidth utilization and target storage requirements by up to 90% on average.
• TrueRestore™ Technology – Provides increased confidence in your ability to restore from backup by verifying data both during the backup and restore processes ensuring data integrity. Self-healing is provided by automatically detecting and repairing corrupt data blocks.

PHD Virtual’s solution for Citrix XenServer backup is now available. Download a free trial version of PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer today. Please register and attend for an upcoming webinar on PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer August 26 and Sept 1. Visit the PHD Virtual.com for our entire webinar calendar.

About the Citrix Ready Program

The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including Citrix® XenDesktop®, XenApp™, XenServer®, NetScaler® and GoToMeeting®. The Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third party products that have successfully met verification criteria set by Citrix, and gives customers an added confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering. The Citrix Ready program leverages industry-leading alliances across the Citrix partner eco-system to meet a wide variety customer needs, and currently incorporates over 2,800 partners who have demonstrated more than 18,000 product verifications. It also includes the Citrix Ready Community Verified program which allows customers to see thousands of products that have been verified by other customers to work in their production environments. The Citrix Ready program received the Alliance Excellence Award from the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) for creating a strong community through implementation of new, innovative best practices. More information about the Citrix Ready program can be found at www.citrix.com/citrixready. Reach Citrix Ready using social media via the Citrix Ready blog site and Twitter.

About PHD Virtual Technologies

Delivering the highest performance and most scalable cross platform backup solution on the market and pioneer of Virtual Backup Appliances (VBAs), PHD Virtual Technologies has been transforming data protection for virtual IT environments since 2006. Its award-winning data protection solution, PHD Virtual Backup for ESX, is used today by more than 2,500 enterprises worldwide to achieve unlimited scalability, high availability and cost effective backup and restore solutions for virtual machines. PHD Virtual also provides a suite of free virtualization utilities to assist with the administration and management of virtualized environments. For more information, please visit www.phdvirtual.com.

Citrix®, Citrix Ready(r), Citrix Synergy(tm), Citrix® XenDesktop, XenApp™, XenServer(r), NetScaler® and GoToMeeting® are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.

For further information, please contact:
Melissa Klein
PHD Virtual Technologies
267-298-5356
marketing@phdvirtual.com