PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PHD Virtual, a pioneer in virtual backup, infrastructure monitoring and innovator of disaster recovery assurance solutions, announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named PHD Virtual Backup 6.2 with CloudHook™ a finalist for the 8th Annual 2013 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards in the Storage category. These industry and peer awards from Network Products Guide are the world's premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Winners will be honored in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, during the 8th annual dinner and presentations.
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PHD Virtual Backup 6.2 with new CloudHook™ technology is the first and only solution on the market to offer powerful local VM backup capabilities and provide a link to public or private cloud storage for offsite backups, delivering the most powerful, feature-filled, easy to use backup solution for virtual servers at a fraction of the cost of competitive alternatives.
With PHD CloudHook, customers can avoid buying and managing costly cloud gateway appliances and cumbersome tape or other storage media for offsite backups. The PHD Virtual Backup Appliance (VBA) provides an easy-to-configure option in the cloud that removes all of that complexity. Getting set up is quick and easy -- one click in the PHD console backs up data to the customer’s choice of popular third party cloud providers, such as Amazon, Google, Rackspace or another private/public cloud provider storage. All provide the flexibility to scale as data storage needs increase.
An annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the coveted annual Hot Companies and Best Products recognition program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, support and customer satisfaction, and public relations in every area of information technology.
“It’s an honor to be named a finalist by Network Products Guide for this esteemed industry and peer award,” said Steve Kahan, CMO, PHD Virtual. “This further validates our position as a company poised to successfully help customers overcome their data protection, and disaster recovery testing issues they face today.”
About Network Products Guide Awards
As industry’s leading technology research and advisory publication, Network Products Guide plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make in all areas of information technology. You will discover a wealth of information and tools in this guide including the best products and services, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com.
About PHD Virtual Technologies
PHD Virtual provides the absolute best value in virtual backup, disaster recovery assurance and monitoring for VMware, Citrix and cloud environments. More than 5,000 customers worldwide rely on our products because they are effective, easier to use and far more affordable than competitive alternatives. Delivering the highest performance and most scalable cross platform backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring solutions on the market and pioneer of Virtual Backup Appliances (VBAs), PHD Virtual Technologies has been transforming data protection for virtual IT environments since 2006. For more information, please visit: http://www.phdvirtual.com/.
