Microlite announced a new version of BackupEDGE.  Version 02.03.01, Build 4 is a free upgrade for current BackupEDGE 2.0 users and adds support for the following Operating Systems:

• RedHat Enterprise 5.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.8
• Debian 5.0.3 Lenny

To verify your version of Linux has been certified, you can view the Microlite Linux Support Tables.

Additionally, Centos 5.4 has recently been released and is undergoing Microlite’s certification test.  This version should be certified and supported soon.

The Next Generation

Microlite reports, “Our engineering team is hard at work on a next-generation BackupEDGE product.”  Some great new features will be released in this upcoming version, so stay tuned for more information from Microlite.  They also mention in their newsletter that customers under a 2.x maintenance agreement will receive a significant discount on the upgrade, so be sure to keep your maintenance agreement valid.

This is the first paid upgrade to BackupEDGE in over 6 years(!) so be expecting some exciting new features.