Quadric has a rich history of backing up XenServer – over 14 years!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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. \u201cCitrix\u2019s acquisition of XenSource was a game-changer\u201d, observes Phil. \u201cI knew I wanted to contribute to this new ecosystem to help it grow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since then, Quadric has provided industry-leading backup solutions for XenServer. Quadric\u2019s latest product, the A3, offers secure, high performance protection, with backup to the cloud, Instant VM recovery, and more. Because of Quadric\u2019s long standing partnership with Citrix and XenServer, Quadric\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cXenServer 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.<\/em><\/strong>” -Phil Baskette, CEO of Quadric<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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\u2019s goal is to match XenServer\u2019s simplicity and make their data protection solution intuitive to use and easy to get up and running with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs 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.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d -Phil Baskette, CEO of Quadric<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quadric\u2019s 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.\u00a0Alike\u2019s comprehensive suite of backup and replication tools provides ways to migrate workloads between nearly any environment\u2013quickly, efficiently, and safely.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI 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.\u00a0 This is possible thanks to Alike\u2019s flexibility, efficiency, and high performance CBT protection.<\/em><\/strong>”\u00a0-Phil Baskette, CEO of Quadric<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 \u201cnew net uptick\u201d in customers reaching out to Quadric considering a new hypervisor solution given the recent pricing changes from VMware \u2013 and asking about Quadric\u2019s backup solution and how Quadric can help with the migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phil mentioned some joint XenServer and Quadric customers he has worked with over the years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n