November 24, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – French hosting and data center solutions provider Ikoula and R1Soft have partnered on providing “reliable, easily accessible” backups, it was announced recently. Ikoula has added R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection. (CDP) as an “upscale backup solution for self-managed dedicated servers and managed hosting”. For its enterprise customers, Ikoula will offer “the premium backup service bundled with secured storage”.
Ikoula selected R1Soft CDP over competing backup solutions for several significant features including the ability to delegate admin rights to customers, scalability, API and email reports. R1Soft CDP also allows for quick and easy implementation across Windows and Linux platforms, an essential capability that will enable them to centrally manage all of their backups from one centralized location in their heterogeneous data center.
“After searching for a backup solution for over a year, we finally found R1Soft CDP. While backups are not a daily top business priority for most, people truly value them on the day they need them and thanks to R1Soft we are able to provide our customers with available, working and easily accessible backups when it counts,” said Arnaud Tayac, Ikoula Marketing Director. “We are excited about offering this new technology as part of our services and feel that R1Soft will provide a better sense of security and help facilitate long, lasting relationships with our customers.”
Hosting over 4000 businesses, Ikoula plans to offer the agents at 20/month and the MySQL add-on for 15/month. Included is 10 GB on a secured storage platform which is scalable up to several TB. Through internal research and development, Ikoula has custom-designed and now manages its own highly-secure, climate controlled data center where it hosts over 3000 servers. The data center features many internally developed monitoring tools and services including its own platform “Ikexpress” - the architecture of its dedicated servers.
With 10 years of experience in the hosting environment, its own 2000 sq. meter data center and 3000 servers, Ikoula is a leading company in France. As a global hosting solutions provider, they are able to answer the various needs of customers and to accompany them in their growth. Ikoula’s success is the result of positioning close to their clients and listening to their needs. Offering services from shared and virtualized hosting to co-location racks and domain name registering, Ikoula’s range of solutions fits SOHO and SMB as well as mid-market and large companies.
