BRUSSELS, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --     As is customary when launching its new restore tools, BlueBackUp, a
subsidiary of Oodrive Technologies, is enriching its focus on big company
needs by offering an outsourced backup solution for virtual VMware ESX
environments.

Virtualisation will still be a major IT trend in 2009. Indeed, no further
demonstration is needed of its advantages: savings in relation to machines,
storage areas, electricity consumption, air conditioning....

However, a virtualised environment, in a large majority of cases,
complicates the data backup processes. Indeed, although virtualisation makes
it simpler to restore a full server thanks to the snapshotting of each
virtual machine, it does not enable file by file recovery (in that case, the
entire machine containing the files has to be restored).

Thanks to its VMware ESX plug-in coupled with "Delta Block" technology,
BlueBackUp is today proposing a complete protection solution for VMware
environments. This offers hot backup possibilities in respect of critical
applications (databases, etc.) and restoring an entire machine as well as a
single file.

Main Features of the BlueBackUp Solution for Virtualised Environments

- Complete protection of the ESX environment: backup of the ESX server
    and all its virtual machines in their entirety - applications, set-ups, 
    and so on and so forth.

    - Hot backup of virtual machines: applications no longer have to be
    stopped in order to start the backup. So there's no activity slowdown.

    - Restore granularity: possibility of restoring a virtual machine in its
    entirety (OS, settings,...) or individual files (Exchange database, 
    SQL,...).

    - Delta Block technology: only the blocks within the files that have been
    altered since the last backup are sent in an encrypted and compressed 
    format, which seriously limits the bandwidth requirements.

    - Automatic delocalisation of the backups (and images) to BlueBackUp's
    external storage servers.



Advantages for Companies Working with VMware:

- Fewer risks of data loss, thanks to the automatic delocalisation of
    their virtual machines to top-security data centres.

    - Less down time following a data loss, thanks to the restore procedures'
    granularity.

    - Fewer resources used for backup tasks, thanks to the Delta Block
    technology, which prevents any deceleration of virtual environment
    performance.



With this protection solution for ESX virtual servers, combined with its
exclusive restore tools, BlueBackUp is reinforcing its determination to focus
on big company needs and is clearly positioned as the specialist in terms of
complex environmental backup.

http://www.bluebackup.com

About BlueBackUp

BlueBackUp is a subsidiary of Oodrive Technologies. Over time, it has
become the leading specialist in protecting critical data via the Internet in
Belgium. BlueBackUp offers its customers a comprehensive suite of online
backup and Disaster Recovery solutions that use Evault DeltaBlock technology
to meet the needs of businesses operating in complex IT environments.

For further technical information about the VMware ESX plug-in proposed
by BlueBackUp, please contact Eric Toussaint, marketing & communication
responsible of the company.

Phone : +32(0)2-306-86-96

E-mail : eto@bluebackup.be