ByteAndSwitch.com
January 27, 2006
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- UltraBac Software (www.ultrabac.com) today released UBDR Gold
v3.0, bringing true dissimilar hardware restore to market. UBDR Gold end-users
will no longer need to buy and maintain identical hardware spares as part of
their disaster recovery readiness plan, which can help cut expenses. Other
significant enhancements to the company’s award-winning software include
expanded virtual machine restore support and Online Index based restore
capability. UBDR Gold now offers customers the ultimate in disaster recovery
flexibility with the addition of both dissimilar hardware and full support for
every type of virtual recovery. UBDR Gold v3.0 can restore the image of a failed
server or workstation to a wide variety of drives and controllers, including
SCSI, RAID, IDE, SATA, as well as PCI and EISA buses. UBDR Gold can easily
restore to a machine with a different Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and
processor. This is possible even when a failed server is a single processor and
the new machine is a multiprocessor. Dissimilar hardware restores are no longer
a disaster recovery obstacle. With UBDR Gold’s physical-to-physical (P2P)
disaster recovery capability, users can now replace a failed server with any
spare machine that is available.
In 2005, UltraBac Software broke new ground with UBDR Gold v2.0 by providing the
first Windows backup software to offer physical-to-virtual (P2V) based disaster
recoveries. Version 3.0 expands on P2V to also include virtual-to-virtual (V2V)
and virtual-to-physical (V2P) restores. With V2V and V2P, administrators
literally have every virtual disaster recovery option at their disposal.
Restoring and emulating a failed machine virtually can be executed in as little
as 15 minutes.
Further expanding on its virtual machine support, UBDR Gold v3.0 also integrates
seamlessly with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. Users of VMware and Microsoft
Virtual Server have a new and affordable option for disaster recovery protection
from either natural or man made disasters that can incapacitate or destroy a
computer facility. To restore a physical server virtually, an administrator need
only create a new target virtual environment on the host for the server to be
restored. Restores can be 100 percent scripted or an administrator can boot from
the universal UBDR Gold CD and run the recovery wizard. Quick and easy restores
can be performed from tape, disk, libraries, UNC path, SAN, NAS, USB/FireWire
devices, FTP, or TSM servers. No special setup or other considerations are
required when recovering to a virtual environment.
"Our latest version of UBDR Gold demonstrates our commitment to pushing the
envelope in backup and disaster recovery innovation," said Morgan Edwards, CEO
and founder of UltraBac Software. "With complete focus on backup and disaster
recovery, our mission is to provide customers the best data protection that
money can buy. Our commitment to this goal is evidenced by UBDR Gold v3.0’s full
array of virtual options and true dissimilar hardware restore capability, which
showcase our industry leading technology to users in the Windows environment."
ByteAndSwitch.com January 27, 2006
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