Achieve Greater Backup and Restore speeds with PHD VBA™ Architecture.

Philadelphia, PA, August 26, 2010 – PHD Virtual Technologies, pioneer and innovator of the "virtual backup appliance" (VBA), using virtual machines to backup virtual machines, extends its support to VMware vSphere 4.1 (ESX and ESXi). As an award-winning solution, this next generation of the VBA™ Architecture further enhances their current solution and commitment to helping customers achieve reliable data protection and availability via sophisticated products that simplify difficult problems.

"We are excited to extend our award winning backup and recovery technology to support vSphere 4.1 (ESX and ESXi)," said Jim Schrand, Director of Product Management. "This next generation platform is an evolution of our robust VBA architecture and data protection technologies designed specifically to integrate with the latest vSphere solutions. This new release will provide the same fast, efficient and reliable data protection that our current customers utilizing the VMware ESX platform enjoy today."

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

• TrueDedupe™ Technology – Reduces storage requirements and network traffic by leveraging patent pending source-side data deduplication and compression.
• TrueRestore™ Technology – Provides increased confidence in the ability to restore from backup by verifying and ensuring backup data integrity.
• vSphere Client Plugin – Provides single pane of glass management for backup and restore directly from vSphere Client.

At the VMworld show next week, PHD Virtual (Booth #115) will be demonstrating the upcoming release of PHD Virtual Backup solution for vSphere 4.1, providing attendees a sneak peek at the next generation of VBA architecture. Those who stop by the PHD Virtual booth #115 to see a demo on PHD's unique VBA architecture will be entered to win an Apple iPad or latest iPhone 4.

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.

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