September 19, 2012 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Cloud innovators
BackupAgent and
Citrix have entered into a partnership to offer a joint solution which will deliver cloud backup to service providers.
As part of the agreement, BackupAgent has joined Citrix Ready Program and completed verification testing of its Cloud Backup Platform for Service Providers with Citrix to ensure compatibility and provide confidence to customers.
Roland Sars, CCO of BackupAgent, said: "We are excited about our partnership with Citrix. Citrix is growing very fast in the service provider area and BackupAgent can now contribute to and benefit from this growth."
"We already have deployed the first service providers that use CloudPortal Services Manager with BackupAgent and their enthusiasm shows us that our partnership with Citrix has a bright future."
Through BackupAgent's software, service providers can offer automated cloud backup with features, such as securing data from Microsoft Outlook, IE Favorites, and Windows System state.
It also comprises advanced backup of Microsoft Exchange Server, MS SQL Server, and MySQL databases.
Sridhar Mullapudi, Director of Product Management, Cloud App Delivery at Citrix, said: "We want to enrich the Citrix ecosystem with A-class vendors that offer significant value to our Citrix Service Providers and their customers."
"BackupAgent offers such value and we are confident that the partnership between Citrix and BackupAgent will lead to great business opportunities."
About BackupAgent
BackupAgent was founded in 2005 and is a privately held company with headquarters in Delft, The Netherlands. BackupAgent's cloud backup technology is used by over 400 service providers, hosting companies and telcos in over 50 countries worldwide. BackupAgent was ranked 8th on the Deloitte Fast 50 in 2010, the list of fastest growing technology companies.
About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) transforms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent of Internet users each day and it partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion.
