November 26, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Host-based continuity services provider Geminare Incorporated (www.geminare.com) and German managed service provider Bechtle (www.bechtle.com) have announced a strategic reseller partnership that brings a SaaS-based business continuous availability platform to the European market for the first time.
According to Geminare's Tuesday announcement, its Continuous Availability solution is being resold through IT giant Bechtle, based in Neckarsulm, Germany, a respected and well known system house in the EU. Geminare offers Bechtle customers a host-based system that ensures its critical technology infrastructure operates uninterrupted, including all Windows based file and application servers, with continuous access to both data and applications, even in the case of a critical system failure.
Germinare's high-availability solution, the company said, surpasses the simple online backup services currently on the market, offering a highly advanced and effective hosted solution to the small and medium-sized business market, previously only available to enterprises on custom-built, dedicated hardware and software systems. It is set-up within 24 hours and easily deployed, with upfront fees.
"With the introduction of our Continuous Availability solution to the EU SMB market through strategic partnerships with companies like Bechtle, our European customers can now compete in the technology marketplace previously reserved for the elite Fortune 500 organizations," Geminare Worldwide chief executive officer Joshua Geist said in a statement. "Application and data availability is an essential service customers assume has been taken care of. With Geminare, continuous data availability has finally become a reality with our rapidly deployed, enterprise-class solution."
Providing real-time WAN replication of Windows file servers, database and applications servers for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, IIS, Oracle and Blackberry, Germainare's SaaS-based continuous data protection enables instant data recovery in the event of isolated data corruption episodes from a top tier data centre in Cologne.
Earlier this week, French hosting and data center solutions provider Ikoula (www.ikoula.com) added R1Soft's (www.r1soft.com) Continuous Data Protection solution to its service offerings to provide an upscale backup solution for its self-managed dedicated servers and managed hosting to the European market. R1Soft's CDP enables disk-based data protection and disaster recovery for Linux servers and Windows and Linux-based workstations.
Recent activity suggests Europe may become, if it is not already,�a key target market for data protection solutions providers, with R1Soft, Germinare, and a handful of other providers being among the first to make crucial, local partnerships.
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