MOUNT ARLINGTON, New Jersey, July 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- esXpress Enhances Virtual Applicance for Backup/Restores Benefiting
VMware Users

PHD Virtual Technologies (http://www.phdvirtual.com/), provider of the
pioneering esXpress 
(http://www.phdvirtual.com/products/esxpress-virtual-backup) data protection 
and recovery solution for virtual machines, today announced that esXpress has 
been extended to support VMware vSphere 4. This new release of esXpress 
version 3.6 also includes significant enhancements for all versions of 
VMware's ESX platform version 3.0.2 and above. An optimized deduplication 
engine dramatically increases backup speeds and fuels performance for 
file-level restores, as well as VMDK restores and data archival via a Windows 
Share.

"PHD Virtual's esXpress was the first solution to truly take advantage of
virtualization by intelligently using the virtual machine to back itself up,"
said Dave Bartoletti, senior analyst and consultant, Taneja Group. "With new
support for vSphere, esXpress is a scalable, cost effective backup solution
which can protect virtual environments without additional hardware or
software investments."

esXpress, with new support for vSphere 4, performs backup and recovery
using the virtual environment itself. By creating virtual backup appliances
(VBAs) - small virtual machines - the solution can be deployed in minutes on
VMware servers, and provides the most scalable environment for backing up
virtual machines. New performance enhancements include:

-- Improved file level restore speeds are now up to four times faster
    -- Data Restoration and Archival via Windows' Shares are now up to four 
       times faster
    -- Improved PHDD deduplication image-level restore speeds up to twice as 
       fast
    -- Accelerated deduplication engine provides initial backups that are 
       seeded at double the previous rates

esXpress continues to support up to 16 concurrent backup/restore streams
per host and all backups can be self-restored without using esXpress or other
proprietary virtual machine infrastructure. esXpress' block level backups are
de-duplicated source side, ensuring data is compressed and deduped before it
every leaves the host. This ensures that network traffic is kept to a minimum
even while backing up over a WAN link.

"Along with now supporting VMware vSphere 4, we continue to enhance
esXpress' performance so that all customers can benefit from these
performance improvements in any VMware environment, 3.0.2 and above," said
Joe Julian, executive chairman, PHD Virtual. "esXpress continues to simplify
backup and recovery for virtual machines while lowering costs by reducing
hardware requirements. This helps organizations relying on their virtual
infrastructure to receive unprecedented economies of scale, simplicity and
management."

Pricing and Availability

esXpress 3.6 supporting VMware vSphere 4 is currently available in small
business and enterprise versions. Pricing starts at US$1,000 per host with
unlimited number of sockets. For more information or to download a trial
version, please visit
http://www.phdvirtual.com/products/esxpress-virtual-backup.

About PHD Virtual Technologies

The pioneer of Virtual Backup Appliances (VBAs), PHD Virtual Technologies
has been transforming data protection for VMware since 2006. Its
award-winning data protection solution, esXpress, is used today by more than
1,600 enterprises worldwide to achieve scalable, high availability and cost
effective backup and restore solutions for VMware. In 2008, esXpress was
named "Data Protection Product of the Year" by
SearchServerVirtualization.com. PHD Virtual also provides a suite of free,
virtualization utilities to assist with the administration and management of
virtualized environments. PHD Virtual supports global resellers through its
Channel Xpress partner program and is a proud VMware Technology Alliance
Partner. For more information, please visit www.phdvirtual.com.