Bacula Systems Extends Open Source Backup and Restore Leadership With Bacula Enterprise...

Bacula Systems Extends Open Source Backup and Restore Leadership With Bacula
Enterprise Edition
Enterprise-class, Open Source Network Backup and Restore Solution Brings
High-Value, Low-Cost Opportunity to IT Departments.

YVERDON-LES-BAINS, Switzerland, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Bacula Systems SA,
the world's leading provider of Open Source network backup and restore
solutions, today announced the worldwide availability of Bacula Enterprise
Edition 2.6. Large IT departments now have an Open Source, enterprise-class
scalable network backup solution as a realistic alternative to proprietary
applications.
The Enterprise Edition combines the leading Open Source backup and
restore platform, Bacula, with administration and management tools into a
single integrated, tested, and certified platform. Customers can now benefit
from enhanced production support subscriptions that include everything needed
to deploy and host Bacula Systems backup and restore technologies. Bacula's
Open Source backup solution and subscription puts customers back in control
of their mission-critical IT infrastructure, enabling them to drive down
costs and avoid vendor lock-in. The primary features of the new Bacula
Enterprise Edition include:
* Increased scalability up to thousands of servers and clients.
* High speed: backup to LT03 tape drives at 150 MB / sec.
* Modern, modular and multi-threaded design.
* Exceptionally stable network backup and data verification in large IT
environments.
* Advanced levels of security built in every layer.
* Backup to disk, tape, and robotic media libraries.
* High availability in a clustered environment.
Enterprise Edition's features, provided to customers through a
subscription model, deliver enhanced scalability and reliability to enable
customers to run the most demanding workloads on a more affordable platform.
"With Enterprise Edition, Bacula Systems has delivered a rich set of
features, developed through rapid innovation with the Open Source community,
that can increase the capability and significantly drive down the cost of
customers' IT," said Dr. Kern Sibbald, CTO and Chairman of Bacula Systems.
"With the challenge to reduce costs and IT budgets, the flexibility,
reliability and simplicity of a Bacula Systems Subscription has more value to
customers than ever", added Sibbald.
SdV Plurimedia, a large Networked IT and Internet service provider to
large television, newspaper and media companies, increasingly found the
licensing terms of its proprietary backup software inflexible, inhibiting its
ability to scale to meet market demands. "Bacula Systems Professional
Services has allowed us to make the transition from proprietary backup
software, and escape vendor lock-in. Its backup solution is safe, dependable,
and delivers high performance. Bacula Systems support services are very high
quality", said Salim Gasmi, CTO of SdV Plurimedia.
"The fact is that most enterprises are paying far more than they need to
for their backup and restore applications", said Jack Griffin, CEO of Bacula
Systems. "Bacula Enterprise Edition presents a more modern architecture at
much lower cost. No enterprise should feel forced to continue using a
proprietary backup solution, and I expect that many IT departments will now
want to review their choice of backup technology", added Griffin.
Bacula Systems is also rapidly expanding its partner network, which
includes Red Hat, Mandriva in France, dass IT in Germany, and announced today
a new distributorship with SPI, in Italy. Bacula Systems Enterprise Edition
offers support for the following platforms: Unix, Solaris, AIX, Windows, Red
Hat, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Ubuntu, and can be built from
source on all Linux distributions as well as most Unix distributions. Bacula
System is compatible with databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server,
MySQL, Postgres SQL and Ingres.
Bacula Enterprise Edition is issued under the GPL Open source license.
Subscription support for Bacula Enterprise Edition is immediately available
today directly from Bacula Systems, or from Bacula Systems resellers. For
more information, visit http://www.baculasystems.com
About Bacula Systems SA
Bacula Systems is headquartered in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, and
offers enterprise-level support for Bacula Open Source networked backup
software, through its subscription, training and other support services.
Bacula increases reliability and can cut IT backup costs significantly. The
Bacula Enterprise Edition Backup and Recovery Platform is the only fully Open
Source solution for networked backup, data recovery and verification of
computer data, offering a ten times lower cost structure vs. proprietary
systems, higher reliability and proven performance in mission-critical
enterprise environments. More information at http://www.baculasystems.com
About SdV
Serving leading television, newspaper and media companies, SdV Plurimedia
is a complete IT architect and integrator of networked IT and internet
servers. With more than 1000 servers deployed, SdV Plurimedia provides
expertise, hosting and other services for the design, creation and operation
of Networked IT and Internet servers. SdV Plurimedia is based in Strasbourg,
France. For more information, contact http://www.sdv.net/
Press Contact:

Rob Morrison
Marketing Director, Bacula Systems S.A.
Tel: +41-79-541-3309
rob.morrison@baculasystems.com

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Press Contact: Rob Morrison, Marketing Director, Bacula Systems S.A., Tel:
+41-79-541-3309, rob.morrison@baculasystems.com