Quadric has a rich history of backing up XenServer – over 14 years!
In 2009, as a Xen enthusiast and Citrix certified expert, Founder and CEO Phil Baskette recognized the need for a bespoke data protection solution dedicated to the XenServer community. “Citrix’s acquisition of XenSource was a game-changer”, observes Phil. “I knew I wanted to contribute to this new ecosystem to help it grow.”
Since then, Quadric has provided industry-leading backup solutions for XenServer. Quadric’s latest product, the A3, offers secure, high performance protection, with backup to the cloud, Instant VM recovery, and more. Because of Quadric’s long standing partnership with Citrix and XenServer, Quadric’s Alike BDR solution evolves proactively to take advantage of all the new features of the platform and innovate with true CBT backup and replication, XenServer tag-based management and more.
To this day, Phil and his team work with many customers actively transitioning to XenServer, most of whom are surprised as to how easy it is to get up and running.
“XenServer is a very simple hypervisor to wrap your head around. It simplifies things in a way that just makes it really easy to understand and manage. Once you get it up and running, it is rock solid. It just works.” -Phil Baskette, CEO of Quadric
As Quadric works with customers transitioning from VMware to XenServer, one of the most important considerations for customers when making the hypervisor transition is data protection. Quadric’s goal is to match XenServer’s simplicity and make their data protection solution intuitive to use and easy to get up and running with.
“As customers are transitioning from VMware to XenServer and Quadric, it is critical that they know how to use our product efficiently to ensure safeguarding of their data. Quadric has taken simplicity to heart because XenServer is simple, and we want to be in step with XenServer. Our goal was to deliver a data protection solution as intuitive as XenServer for admins picking it up for the first time.” -Phil Baskette, CEO of Quadric
Quadric’s Alike solution can also be used as a migration tool for customers moving their virtual machines from other platforms such as VMware or Hyper-V to XenServer. Alike’s comprehensive suite of backup and replication tools provides ways to migrate workloads between nearly any environment–quickly, efficiently, and safely.
“I am currently working with a customer migration project involving over 800 virtual machines and more than 200TB, and they are using our technology suite to enable their migration plan from VMware to XenServer. This is possible thanks to Alike’s flexibility, efficiency, and high performance CBT protection.” -Phil Baskette, CEO of Quadric
This is just one of the many customers Quadric is working with to help migrate to XenServer. Phil also noted that he is seeing a “new net uptick” in customers reaching out to Quadric considering a new hypervisor solution given the recent pricing changes from VMware – and asking about Quadric’s backup solution and how Quadric can help with the migration.
Phil mentioned some joint XenServer and Quadric customers he has worked with over the years:
- A Fortune 100 Automotive Firm in East Asia protecting hundreds Citrix virtual desktops and server workloads
- A Health system in the Southeastern US composed of multiple hospitals protecting their most critical server infrastructure, allowing for reciprocal site recovery and full BDR protection.
- A Big Five tech company protecting their private Xen cloud with Alike for their R&D, consumer automation, and robotics divisions.
- A financial institution with $3.7b in investment assets relies on Alike to secure and protect their critical infrastructure.
Check out Quadric’s website to learn more about their data protection solution for XenServer and how they can help with your migration away from VMware: https://www.quadricsoftware.com/platforms/xenserver/