Quoting from press release:

PHD Technologies, Inc. (PHD), today officially announced the point release of esXpress, the Intelligent Backup Solution for VMware ESX Server®. With its newest features, replication and mass restorations, PHD proves yet again why esXpress is the leader in virtual enterprise backups.

"While there are a numerous products to backup virtual machines, no product has been able to simplify the restoration which can be a tedious and painstaking process," said Caleb Shay, Director of Research and Development at PHD Technologies. "The esXpress Mass/Auto Restore features allow you to recover from one to hundreds of virtual machines with very little user input. Our clients have reported their time to recovery has been cut to less than half using this feature."

Additionally there are many new and improved features in esXpress 2.3 including an improved real time status screen, new scheduling options and reports engine, and a backend database that be used to do trend analysis. The mass restore can be a scheduled process synchronized with esXpress to provide an easy and efficient mechanism to snapshot and replicate virtual machines with auto restore, push of a button.

"With over 750 new customers in the first 90 days of its release, esXpress 2.2 has fast become the de facto standard in the VMware backup market space," said Ken Harbin, President. "esXpress 2.3 continues to prove why PHD is the market leader. And with the forth coming esXpress 3.0 for VMware Infrastructure 3, our speed, reliability and scalability will remain unmatched by any competitor."