Arkeia's exclusive multi-flow technology allows server-initiated parallel processing to manage up to 200 clients simultaneously. This delivers automatic load balancing between fast and slow machines and ensures sustained network throughput while providing stable high-speed back-ups. The software achieves backup speeds as fast as 70GB/h on Ethernet 100bT and more than 700GB/h on gigabit networks per backup server.

Multiplexing is performed on the backup server to preserve the CPU resources of client machines. Client CPU cycles are not wasted performing multiplexing or multi- flow protocols, which minimizes the impact of the backup process on client machines. The multi-flow technology increases backup speed and reduces the overall time required to backup a group of networked computers by interleaving the data from several clients and disks at the same time. This allows for optimum network and tape drive usage even when the client computers are on different network loops and have different disk drive speeds. Arkeia's transaction engine saves network bandwidth by using compression algorithms to optimize the size of the data transmitted from the client to the server. For tape libraries, the backup server addresses up to 48 simultaneous drives for a single backup job, each of them receiving multiplexed data onto tapes.