Bought by Seagate at the beginning of the year, EVault began offering online backup services in 1997. The company also OEMs its service and its software to other service providers, and claims that its InfoStage software is used to backup data at over 20,000 organizations.
Since EVault began business its software has featured block-level de-duplication delivering what it says is a data reduction ratio that is typically around 50 to 1. Exactly as for other online backup platforms from rivals such as Asigra, de-dupe at the source allows online backups to be completed using much thinner and cheaper network pipes.
Version 6 of InfoStage shipping this week adds a deeper degree of post-processing, out of band de-duplication to further reduce data volumes and disk usage.
EVault has also been able to backup data from VMware servers previously, but is now fully integrated and much simpler to use, automating hot backups and giving faster restores of virtual machines, operating systems, applications and files, the company claimed.
