Microlite BackupEDGE™

August 1, 2011 – Microlite Corporation makes cloud storage more affordable for everyone using its award winning BackupEDGE™ backup and bare metal disaster recovery software.
Microlite Corporation has announced major changes in pricing and storage capacity when protecting Linux systems with BackupEDGE and the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

Base monthly pricing is now only $25 and includes:
• 60GB of online storage
• 60GB of downloads
• Unlimited free uploads

A free BackupEDGE Support and Maintenance Subscription.*

Additional monthly online storage and download pricing has been reduced to only 18 cents per GB (slightly higher in Asia/Pacific region).

About BackupEDGE

Microlite BackupEDGE provides backup and bare metal disaster recovery capabilities across a wide variety of Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, and more.

It supports the industry’s widest variety of storage devices, including tape drives; Blu-ray, DVD, and CD writers; Iomega REV drives; tape and REV changers; libraries and autoloaders; and USB and SATA disk drives, cartridges, and flash drives. BackupEDGE also fully supports backups to network-attached storage (NAS) devices, servers, and appliances over the local network or Internet, as well as Internet backups to the Amazon S3 web storage cloud.

BackupEDGE has a standards-based archive format with state-of-the-art extensions, including …

• Virtually unlimited pathnames (5,000 characters).
• Full file integrity check sum. 
• Access Control List (ACL) support. 
• File-level data compression with 9 selectable levels. 
• Optional file-level encryption employing a combination of 256-bit and 2048-bit keys and an enterprise-class key management system for maximum data protection. 

BackupEDGE Availability 

BackupEDGE is available worldwide from resellers and value-added distributors. North American distributors include DTR Business Systems, Seneca Data Inc., PDK Associates LLC, and The Kingsway Group. Prices start at $400.00 for non-profit and $500.00 for commercial licenses, with competitive upgrades available. Encryption is an optional available supplement license. Fully functional evaluation copies may be downloaded from the Microlite Corporation web site at www.microlite.com.

About Microlite Corporation

Microlite Corporation has been serving the UNIX/Linux business community since 1983 and has been producing high-quality backup and bare metal disaster recovery software since 1987. For more information, visit www.microlite.com or contact Microlite Sales at 724-375-6711 or 888-257-3343, or by emailing to sales@microlite.com.

BackupEDGE, RecoverEDGE, and Transparent Media are trademarks of Microlite Corporation. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, and copyrights are those of their respective owners.

* Free Support and Maintenance Subscription is activated for BackupEDGE clients using Amazon S3 service for 6 months or longer.

All prices are in US dollars.