Our Italian team will welcome you on the floor to talk about how using Bacula Enterprise can help your business keep the cost in control while embracing popular trends such as Cloud computing or Virtualization.

Siamo fieri di sponsorizzare il prossimo Red Hat Open Source Day che avrà luogo a Roma il 12 giugno 2012.
Il nostro team italiano sarà lieto di accogliervi per discutere con voi su come controllare i costi con Bacula Enterprise pur senza rinunciare ai vantaggi della Virtualizzazione e del Cloud computing.

Bacula Enterprise NDMP Server is a product specifically designed to address the data protection requirements of IT organizations in charge of NAS-based infrastructures that can not afford to purchase any additional expensive backup software on top of the budget needed for high-quality network attached storage devices.

The package NDMP Server is  exclusively available for Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) platforms on version 5 and 6. The plugin is compatible with Hitachi BlueArc, EMC Celera and NetApp 7.3.

Check out the product page for more details or contact us.

We, at Bacula Systems, are thrilled to make IBM’s list of business partners certified on IBM PureSystems. With this certification, we are excited to change the enterprise IT experience as we know it and welcome our clients to the next era of computing.

As a PureSystems certified business partner, we are not only able to offer an integrated, expert solution designed to simply address our client’s complex challenges, we will also give our clients the opportunity to increase ROI — by reducing development time and costs and growing business — and tap into the 70% of IT budgets currently devoted to upkeep of current systems for innovation.

After completing extensive training and testing, we’re proud to be certified Ready for PureSystems and confident that our solutions will provide our clients with the level of satisfaction they expect and the level of simplicity they desire.

You may find more detailed information about the solution on our website. And also in IBM Global Solutions Directory.

Bacula Enterprise Edition 6   High-End Features. Cost Effective.

Bacula Systems, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source backup and restore software, today announced the general availability of Bacula Enterprise Edition 6. Bacula Enterprise Edition 6 brings to enterprises, data centers and managed service providers rich new features and enhancements.

Designed to safeguard today’s rapidly evolving enterprise architectures, Bacula Enterprise Edition 6 delivers the high-end features IT departments need for physical, virtualized and cloud environments at a fraction of the cost of proprietary vendors.Thousands of organizations worldwide rely on Bacula today.

The Enterprise Edition 6 adds the following high-end features:

• Delta plugin: Using signature-based file difference, for backing up large binary files with unprecedented efficiency
• SAN Shared Storage plugin: Optimizes and increases tape library usage by providing shared access to tape drives
• Client-Free VMware plugin: Raw level backup via NBD or SAN, removes 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
• Microsoft Exchange VSS plugin: Performs incremental backup and allows restore at the mailbox level
• Microsoft SQL Server VSS plugin: Performs differential backup and allows restore at the database level
• NDMP plugin: Enhanced to use Filer-to-Server through the NDMP protocol and adds support for additional NAS vendors

The core features set of Bacula Enterprise Edition has also been extended and updated:

• Job Stop/Restart/Resume: increased flexibility when dealing with failed or large backup sets
• Job bandwidth limitation: dynamically set the maximum throughput of a running Job
• Support for Andrew FileSystem
• LZO compression
• Safer pruning algorithm – and more!

To know more about Bacula Enterprise Edition and its plugins, please visit our website or contact us

We, at Bacula Systems, are thrilled to release this new version and, as always, are dedicated to continue making sure your business data remains safe and uncompromised!

Best Regards,

Aristide Caraccio

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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, 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

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 Cartika Inc

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

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Don’t miss the opportunity to learn about the future of Open Source backup and recovery. Go meet their backup consultants at their booth located in Hall 2, Stand D48

dass IT is a systems integrator, offering support and consulting around Linux and Open Source. The company was founded in 2004 by former Senior Consultants of Suse Linux AG. More information is available on their website and at Cebit.

Including the Linux 3.0 kernel while maintaining application compatibility is vital in order to guarantee broad adoption of this new Linux release. Together  with SUSE, our R&D team worked out the technical details in a timely manner and we are excited to announce that SLES 11 SP2 will be included in the Supported Platform matrix of our next major release; Bacula Enterprise Edition v6.

You may find more information about the release at http://www.suse.com/blogs/sle-11-sp2-and-the-isv-partner-community/

Why migrating to Bacula Enterprise Edition?

• You need some Enterprise plugins such as Windows or Linux BMR, NDMP, Windows VSS, VMware and more!
• You need to professionalize your backup / restore infrastructure using a reliable software
• Your team needs help from professional and reactive support experts
• You want to get, instantly, regular fixes, patches, upgrades and updates
• You need consulting expertise to fine tune your installation
• You and your colleagues want to increase your expertise by attending our awarded training classes
• You want to have access the Enterprise documentation set
• You need road map visibility and, even better, influence future developments of Bacula Enterprise Edition
• Your IT environment relies on certified and tested software managed using strict releases cycles
• You want to leverage the Bacula administration tools capabilities (Using Bweb or Bacula Enterprise Management Center)

So, just for you, Bacula Systems adds another reason to migrate to Bacula Enterprise Edition with Bacula Enterprise Edition Selective Migration Plan

With the purchase of a yearly Bacula Systems Subscription this plan includes:

• Bacula Enterprise Edition (latest version available)
• 1 plugin of your choice (see list in the current price list)
• 1 day of remote consulting
• Migration to v6.0 white paper
• Seats in our training course (Admin I and/or II) at 50% discount. (To enjoy the discount, registration for the training has to be made with the order of the Plan)

Note: the community edition has to be used in production. Proof will be given using a BS report sent to the Support team.

Funds will finance the release of new backup and restore software and growth of the sales organization

Yverdon-Les-Bains, Switzerland – June 9th, 2011 — Bacula Systems®, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source backup and restore software, announced today that it has completed its CHF 4.5 million (over US$5 million) fund-raising.

The funding has been raised from a syndicate assembled by KM Capital Partners and from the Swiss Canton of Vaud, through its Economic Development arm, DEV.

The funds will accelerate the company’s software development program, and further grow its sales and channels services to provide more sophisticated support to its business partners.

“I am proud that the Bacula open source project has achieved over 1.5 million downloads since its conception in 2002”, said Bacula’s author, Bacula Systems’ Founder and CEO, Kern Sibbald, “Bacula Systems is poised to extend its lead in the commercial open source backup and restore space through a series of releases of new, value-add technologies and plugins that complement its highly scalable, network backup and restore solution”.

Emphasizing its commitment to the rapid growth of its sales team and increased sales support to its partner and reseller networks, Bacula Systems also announced today the appointment of Aristide Carracio as its new Director of Sales and Marketing, and Stéphane Schweizer, as its EMEA Sales and Marketing Manager.

By eliminating both vendor lock-in and license fees, Bacula Enterprise Edition reduces costs and offers a far lower total cost of ownership than proprietary vendors. Immediately upon the deployment of Bacula Enterprise Edition, Bacula Systems clients worldwide have found that modernizing their backup and restore technology produces measurable increases in network efficiency, data protection levels and, significantly, up to 70% reduction in costs. With recent deployments in large hosting providers, banks and telecommunications companies, and the high-end specification of its backup and restoration enterprise software, Bacula Systems’ commercial open source alternative is rapidly emerging as the solution of choice among large data centers that need to reduce spiraling IT costs.

Footnote: Actual amount raised is 4.5 million CHF (Swiss Francs).

About Bacula Systems:

Bacula Systems provides the highest quality support, training and professional services for the Bacula open-source backup and restoration software platform. Bacula is the 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 with offices in the US, the Netherlands, Germany and France, Bacula Systems was founded by the developers of Bacula in response to a growing demand for professional support and services to match the quality of the open source Bacula software. For more information, see http://www.BaculaSystems.com

About KM Capital Partners:

Based in Geneva, KM Capital Partners is a Swiss based financial advisory boutique that facilitates the funding of innovative, early stage companies which have the potential to become large global corporations.

For more information, contact:

Konstantin Muravyev

KM Capital Partners SA

+41794075642

KM@KMCapitalPartners.com

About DEV:

The role of the Development Economic – State of Vaud (“DEV”) is to promote the economy, facilitate the establishment of new companies and to create jobs in the region. DEV is an association formed and financed by the Canton of Vaud and its members. It has been organized specifically to welcome and assist foreign companies in setting-up their activities in the region.

Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland – Sept. 14, 2010 – Bacula Systems^®, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source backup and restore software, announced today the availability of Bacula Enterprise Edition 4.0^TM, delivering advanced backup features from open source software for the first time.

The announcement continues Bacula System’s commitment to offering a highly scalable, modern, open source backup and restore solution to the enterprise, through accelerated development of the Bacula project, and by delivering highest quality professional support to the IT industry.

The primary features of the Bacula Enterprise Edition 4.0 include:

• BWeb Enterprise Management Center to manage multiple data centers.
• Scalability up to thousands of servers and clients.
• Modern, modular and multi-threaded design.
• Exceptionally stable network backup and data verification in large IT environments.
• Advanced levels of security built in every layer.
• Backup to disk, tape, and robotic media libraries.
• High availability in a clustered environment
• File level deduplication.

• MySQL and Postgres database compatibility.
• Improved Microsoft VSS functionality.
• New Windows plug-ins such as registry, systemstate, Active Directory, Exchange and SharePoint.
• Windows bare metal recovery.
• Bacula Systems Support Services.
• Long term support for Enterprise Edition 4.0 – minimum of 4 years.

Since Bacula Systems announced earlier this year that Bacula had passed the one million download milestone (now 1.33 million), more large enterprises, such as Netlog, have chosen to adopt Bacula Systems’ Subscription services and enterprise-class solution in order to modernize their IT environment and drive costs down. Netlog, an online social portal available in 37 languages with more than 63 million members throughout Europe, found the licensing terms of its proprietary backup software inflexible, inhibiting its ability to scale to meet market demands. “We needed to find a highly scalable product with modern architecture, that reduced costs and was flexible enough to support all our systems, so Bacula was the best backup product we could use” said Nicolas Van Eenaeme, Director of ITS, Netlog.

Bacula Systems earlier this year launched its Accelerated Development Initiative, which is focused on developing enterprise-class features and modules for the Bacula project to further bring open source backup and restore to large enterprises. As part of this initiative, Bacula Systems is today announcing the BWeb Enterprise Edition, a multipurpose web-based graphical user interface management and monitoring tool for Bacula Enterprise Edition. “The Bacula Systems Accelerated Development Initiative has resulted in many new technical features, including the ‘BWeb Enterprise Management Center’ which can manage multiple Bacula installations for very large enterprises” said Dr. Kern Sibbald, CTO and Chairman of Bacula Systems, and founder of the Bacula project. “Modules for added Oracle backup capabilities are also near completion, and will further add to the value of the Bacula Systems Subscription”, added Sibbald.

Bacula Systems also today announced the availability of its new service to small and medium businesses: a special ‘Lite’ subscription for small deployments that gives access to leading Bacula engineers and support team, and access to Bacula patches – all available through its web portal. “Bacula Systems offers the most popular open source backup product in the market today, and frees the enterprise from vendor lock-in.” said Jack Griffin CEO, Bacula Systems. “No company should feel forced to pay the outrageous licensing fees typical of today’s proprietary backup vendors. Our customers only pay for real, direct value; not licensing”, added Griffin.

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 is the 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 with offices in the US, the Netherlands, Germany and France, 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. More information at http://www.baculasystems.com

About Netlog

Netlog is the Leading Online Youth Community in Europe & Middle East, where young people make friends by building a digital identity, sharing experiences and playing games. The community counts over 56 million members and is growing by half a million new members every week.

www.netlog.com

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