ersion 8 capabilities and features are identical across the three deployment alternatives:

• the same Backup Agents are used across all three, giving administrators the flexibility to evolve their servers without modifying their agent machines
• complementary products like Arkeia’s Backup Replication and Arkeia’s Central Management Server work seamlessly across all three backup server deployments, making these advanced capabilities easy to deploy and use
• a consistent and enhanced user interface across deployments means no new learning curve when deployment modes change 

Compared to Arkeia Network Backup v7 and earlier versions, version 8 comes with the following enhancements:

• Virtualized Environment Support
• Introduction of a virtual appliance for ESX and ESXi
• Introduction of a VMware ESX Server agent
• Enhanced Graphical User Interfaceo    Backup Schedule Calendar introduction
• Reorganization of the Menu for a better ergonomy
• Client-server communication simplification with stronger security
• Remove the dependency of name resolution (FQDN)
• Allows the client to connect to the backup server via IP
• Allows the backup server to connect to the client via IP
• Allows Arkeia to bind to a specific IP
• Enhanced handling of client hostname change
• Enhanced software installation options (DNS or IP)
• Lack of client licenses no longer stops the entire backup job if a new client is added
• Enhanced reporting
• Enhanced Alerts logging to the end user
• Enhanced backup error reporting to the end user
• Wiki-based technical documentation
• New platforms supported including SLES 11 and Mandriva 2009 Spring