Axcient Takes on Legacy Backup Providers by Giving Away Its Product for Free With No Strings Attached

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 9, 2014) - Axcient, the leader in cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS), today announced a free version of its Virtual Appliance product. This complimentary offering enables organizations to take advantage of the local replication and recovery elements of Axcient's enterprise-class, award-winning RaaS solution for an unlimited amount of time with no strings attached. Companies can now ditch legacy software and hardware backup products that are difficult to use and time consuming to maintain, and leverage Axcient Free to improve their ability to recover data locally, quickly and easily. With Axcient Free, companies get up to 20TB of free local protection for up to 3 critical servers.

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• Traditional backup software and hardware no longer solves the needs of today's business. Before Recovery-as-a-Service was available, sub-Enterprise sized organizations were unable to keep applications up and running and ensure information was always accessible and recoverable without building replicated datacenters that mirrored their primary infrastructure. Due to the extraordinary costs associated with doing this, most businesses had to settle for a simple backup solution, leaving organizations vulnerable to application and system downtime. Recovery-as-a-Service has changed the game by bringing the benefits of replicated datacenters to businesses of all sizes at a small fraction of the cost, without all of the complexity.
  
  
• Recovery-as-a-Service has forever changed the market, making backup a technology of the past. As a result, Axcient is giving away a better and easier version of traditional backup software for free as an alternative to expensive legacy software solutions like Symantec BackupExec.
  
  
• The Axcient Free solution can be downloaded as a complimentary virtual appliance, and protect up to three servers and 20 terabytes of data, giving companies access to the ease of use, local protection and restore capabilities of Axcient's leading RaaS cloud for rapid recovery of information, applications and IT infrastructures.
  
  
• This new offer is ideal for companies who want a taste of an enterprise-class solution and are looking to replace local backup providers and tape backup solutions, such as Symantec Backup Exec. Unlike Symantec and other online backup services, Axcient offers more than simple file backup. With Axcient, companies can eliminate data loss, keep critical applications up and running, have high-availability of their servers and ensure that employees are always productive.