Quadric Backs Up Physical and Virtual with New Tool

The world of storage and backup is moving faster than a Dale Earnhardt Chevy. Two factors are driving all this progress – virtualization and the cloud. And often the two are entirely intertwined.

Quadric is the latest vendor to make some moves, releasing a product aimed at seamlessly backing up a mix of virtual and physical machines to support disaster recovery. In fact, many if not most enterprises today have this precise blend.

The upcoming version of Alike backup software, now in beta, already supported Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. Now it can do the same backup for your physical servers.

MSPs are right in this product’s crosshairs. In fact, Quadric has a program just for these partners in the form of the Quadric Software MSP Advantage program. This offers pay-as-you-go for disaster recovery, replication and of course backup.

“By expanding support to physical systems, the Alike BDR solution will vastly simplify the management of complex IT infrastructures,” said Phil Baskette, co-founder and CEO of Quadric Software, Inc. “With this new offering, we’re streamlining what is quite frankly a cumbersome process.”

One MSP tool is a self-service portal where partners can set up new customers, and see how they are using storage as well as gather performance stats.

New Name for New Game

Quadric this past May changed its name from Quorum Software, and I’m still puzzled as to exactly why. The company said the name reflected the company’s embrace of virtual technologies. Quadric, err, Quorum, said it wanted a stronger name.

But I’m not sure how Quadric, a math term, ties into virtualization, and how it is stronger than what the company had already established five year ago when it started.

What is also puzzling is why the company’s push into virtualization focuses on XenServer and Hyper-V, rather than VMware. Sure there are lots of VMware storage companies such as Veeam, but VMware is still by far the market leader.

The truth of the matter is many shops have a mix of virtual technologies. Xen is often there to virtualize Linux, VMware for Windows’ workloads, and Hyper-V has been sneaking in the door since it is bundled with the latest version of Windows Server.