software founded 1996 headquarters carlsbad california usa key people bill evans ceo products arkeia network backup arkeia backup appliance revenue private number of employees 50 website http www.arkeia.com arkeia software is an american computer software company . it produces network backup software for 200 platforms including windows macintosh linux aix bsd and hp ux and also a backup appliance integrating its software with disk storage and network connectivity . in january 2013 western digital corporation announced it had acquired arkeia software . 1 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 backup software 2.2 appliances 3 references history edit originally named knox software the company was founded in 1996 by three french engineers michel colzi nordine kherif and arnaud spicht together with ceo phil roussel . 2 first incorporated in san jose california the company was reincorporated in france after a 4m series a investment in 2004 from spef ventures banque populaire and cr dit agricole private equity. ; 3 this was followed by a 3m series b investment by the same investors in 2007 . 4 products edit backup software edit the firm s backup software has been released in several successive products . its earlier product smart backup available 2005 2007 was reviewed in linux user and developer 5 its current backup product arkeia network backup software was reviewed in various releases in linux magazine 6 and linux format 7 in 2009 the company released the product as a system image for vmware virtual machines . 8 in 2009 the company acquired intellectual property and engineering resources from kadena systems in a deal that added source based data deduplication to the software . the technology uses a sliding window approach to identify duplicate data which checks the data stream one byte at a time until it finds blocks that match what the application has seen before . 9 the current version 9.0 automatically adjusts block sizes based on file type in order to maximize dedupe ratios . 10 licenses for the company s products have generally been for fee licenses but beginning in 1998 it has made available a limited capability free version . the first version arkeia light was available from 1998 to 2003 . 11 the current free version called arkeia network backup free use edition is available for download on the company s website . in addition a ubuntu 8.04 lts repository was released as a no cost small network package in 2009 . . 12 appliances edit the firm s backup appliance originally called edgefort and now arkeia backup appliance was released in 2007 and has also had several versions . it allows backup administrators to remotely manage backup operations at remote sites without sending data back to headquarters over the wan . 13 it was reviewed by storage magazine in 2008 . in its 2008 review of the edgefort 100 appliance concluded that 14 the edgefort delivers a smart d2d2t solution that is easy to deploy and offers an impressive selection of backup and restoration features . references edit mikael ricknas idg news service western digital acquires arkeia to boost smb storage offering pcworld january 22 2013 . jeremy geelan sys con radio interviews phil roussel arkeia sys con linuxworld conference & expo 2004 san francisco august 4 2004 . arkeia finds 4.0 m socaltech.com august 4 2004 . dan primack vc deals venture capital journal july 17 2007 . martin howse arkeia smart backup linux user and developer magazine january 4 2006 . smart backup consolidates a more confusing former product range with a basic product priced according to the amount of backed up data and relying on a plugin architecture for more complex integration scenarios . jason tower sun s bright spots and more linux magazine june 2005 . overall arkeia is a solid performer that treats linux like the champion it is rather than a second rate operating system supported only as an afterthought . arkeia network backup 6.0 linux format magazine january 1 2007 . most notably support for ... san backups has been added a major selling point given how inexpensive san devices have become . backup and disaster recovery for virtual environments with arkeia network backup 8 help net security january 27 2009 . beth pariseau arkeia takes aim at emc avamar with kadena systems data deduplication ip buy techtarget.com november 3 2009 . dave simpson what is progressive deduplication infostor october 19 2010 . arkeia light v5 now available as backup solution for open source environments linuxpr december 17 2002 . david hamilton arkeia releases free network backup software for ubuntu web host industry review november 12 2009 . arkeia gas edgefort computerweekly july 17 2007 . product review edgefort 100 storage magazine june 2008 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title arkeia software & oldid 677916708 categories software companies established in 1996networking software companiessoftware companies based in californiacompanies based in carlsbad californiahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 26 august 2015 at 09 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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