Bacula Systems Announces Bacula Enterprise Edition 6: Enterprise-class Solution Sets New Standards for Open Source Backup and Restore

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Bacula Systems Announces Bacula Enterprise Edition 6: Enterprise-class Solution Sets New Standards for Open Source Backup and Restore

YVERDON-LES-BAINS, Switzerland, April 3, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

    Bacula Enterprise Edition 6 ships with a new set of high-end plugins such as Delta,
VMware, SAN Shared Storage and Microsoft Exchange / SQL Server; offers large data centers
high-value, commercial open source alternative

    Bacula Systems [http://www.baculasystems.com ], the world's leading provider of
commercial open source backup and restore software, today announced the general
availability of Bacula Enterprise Edition 6, the latest major release of the company's
enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery solution. Designed to safeguard today's
rapidly evolving enterprise architectures, Bacula Enterprise Edition 6 delivers the
high-end features customers need for physical, virtualized and cloud environments at a
fraction of the cost of proprietary vendors.

    Used by customers all over the world, Bacula Enterprise Edition has gained a
reputation for performance and reliability and presents an affordable alternative to
proprietary backup solutions. Enterprise Edition 6 delivers a dramatic increase in
performance, providing data centers the ability to backup, monitor, report, and restore
data from more sources, more easily, and more quickly than ever before. This new major
version brings to systems administrators, hosting and cloud professionals rich new
features and enhancements, as well as a new set of plugins designed to help IT departments
manage the challenges of data protection in rapidly changing environments. "In a world
where IT departments are operating on ever-tighter budgets, these new features enable
large data centers to make huge savings, together with the opportunity to modernize their
backup and disaster recovery solutions," said Aristide Caraccio, VP of Sales and Marketing
Worldwide, Bacula Systems.

    Bacula Enterprise Edition 6 addresses today's and tomorrow's enterprise requirements
with new plugins and features including:

   
    - Delta plugin: Using signature-based file difference, for backing up large
      binary files with unprecedented efficiency.
    - VMware plugin: Raw level backup via NBD or SAN, removes the necessity to
      install a File Daemon on each guest. Leveraging VMware's Changed Block Tracking, size
      of large backup sets are significantly reduced, easing load on drives and networks.
    - SAN Shared Storage plugin: Optimizes and increases tape library usage by
      providing shared access to tape drives.
    - Microsoft SQL Server VSS plugin: Performs differential backup and allows
      restore at the database level
    - Microsoft Exchange VSS plugin: Performs incremental backup and allows restore
      at the mailbox level

    With Bacula now approaching the two million download milestone, more large data
centers and service providers such as Cartika Inc. have chosen to adopt Bacula Systems
services and enterprise-class solution in order to modernize their IT environment and
drive costs down for its customers. "Data Backup and Recovery is a core component in every
offering and solution offered by Cartika Inc. Flexibility, scalability and reliability in
our backup and recovery platform may be the single most important element in our day to
day operations. We have been absolutely thrilled to find a platform like Bacula Enterprise
Edition to be responsible for our data backup and recovery requirements," said Andrew
Rouchotas, CEO, Cartika Inc. "Its ability to support practically every available operating
system and the flexibility and scalability to handle backups of 1000s of servers and
petabytes of data made this an easy decision for Cartika and our clients," added Mr.
Rouchotas.

    Visit http://www.baculasystems.com to learn more about the new release and the
full feature-set and download a free 30-day fully supported trial of Bacula Enterprise
Edition 6 [http://www.baculasystems.com/try ]

    About Bacula Systems

    Bacula Systems provides the highest quality support, training and professional
services for the Bacula open-source backup and recovery software platform. Bacula
Enterprise is the world leading enterprise backup solution that is 100% open-source, free
of license costs and adheres strictly to open standards. First released in 2002, Bacula
has eliminated the high cost and vendor lock-in of proprietary software for thousands of
enterprises, government agencies and educational institutions around the globe.
Headquartered in Switzerland, Bacula Systems was founded by the developers of Bacula in
response to growing demand for professional support and services to match the quality of
the open source Bacula software.

    For more information please visit http://www.baculasystems.com

    About CartikaInc

    Cartika IT Solution Providers Inc. was founded in Toronto, Canada in May of 2000.
Cartika Inc has established itself as a leader in Open Source Application Service
Providers. Specializing in advanced infrastructure solutions combined with clustering
technologies, Cartika Inc is able to provide clients with the complete range of web
hosting solutions from a shared web hosting environment all the way through to and
including dedicated, high availability clustered web hosting solutions.

    For more information please visit http://www.cartika.com

   
    Contact:
    Aristide Caraccio
    VP Worldwide Sales and Marketing
    aristide.caraccio@baculasystems.com
    Bacula Systems SA
    Switzerland
    +41-21-641-60-80

Source: Bacula Systems SA

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