...backup and disaster recovery services

June 19, 2013 – Oncore IT, a Cloud and IT managed services provider, today announced that it has renewed a three year contract with Jeroboams Group, a leading London-based wine and whisky merchant, to provide on-premise and Cloud-based backup services, along with disaster recovery (DR), and remote server monitoring.

With 18.9 million bottles sold last year, Jeroboams Group caters for retail, trade and private customers through three brands: Laytons (trade wine sales), Milroy’s of Soho (whisky) and Jeroboams (retail wine and private client sales).  Founded in 1934 and privately owned, the group employs 70 staff and has nine shops in the capital.

Julian Harper, Jeroboams Group’s IT manager, says, “Following the 7/7 London bombings, our chairman asked what would happen if we were caught up in an incident. At the time, other than using tape locally, we had no offsite disaster recovery provision or specialist managed service provider looking after our systems which is why Oncore IT was selected in 2005.  They ensure our data is fully protected given it’s what drives our business.”

Under the contract, Oncore IT is providing an Asigra-based Cloud data backup solution, local on premise disc backup for non-core IT systems, its PReSS remote infrastructure monitoring service as well as IT staff holiday cover.  An annual DR test is also included as part of the contract to ensure that everything functions as it should.

Jeroboams Group has adopted a centralised approach for core IT systems with its main database, email, web, and file and print servers located at its headquarters in Islington, north London.  The company uses a mix of physical machines for main systems and virtualised servers to run non-core services such as Microsoft SharePoint and a replication system for its EPOS system.  The various businesses and shops then all connect in using SSL VPN remote access technology.  Backup is therefore centralised for the group.

Harper says, “We’ve renewed our contract with Oncore IT as they do everything we need, we have a good account management relationship and their support desk is proactive in monitoring the status of our backup cycles.”

A specific secure Jeroboams Group ‘vault’ has been created on Oncore IT’s enterprise-class Hitachi Data Systems storage platform.  The vault contains the group’s critical data which is encrypted both ‘in flight’ and at rest.

Backups are scheduled nightly and are run by just one Asigra DS client which was installed in Jeroboam Group’s environment to collect data from its servers. This massively simplifies rollout and contrasts with other solutions which require monitoring agents on each and every system.  Data is held in Oncore IT’s London datacentre and replicated to its offshore facility in Amsterdam for resilience.

Harper explains, “Any small to medium sized business needs to back up core systems offsite so that in the event of a disaster, critical business information is protected.  It’s a simple insurance policy.  You hope you’ll never have to use it, but it doesn’t make commercial sense to skimp and not have it.”

In terms of infrastructure monitoring, Jeroboams is using Oncore IT’s PreSS service [Proactive Remote Engineering Support Services]. Comprising over 10 years worth of intellectual property investment, PreSS  allows systems engineers to monitor Jeroboam Group’s servers, networking equipment and their Internet infrastructure linking their shops to avoid system downtime, maximise system performance and enhance organisational productivity.

In the eight years the two companies have been working together, a disaster recovery event has not been evoked. Paul Cook, Oncore IT’s head of sales & marketing, concludes, “If it were, our response would be completely dependent on the event and our service level agreement is completely flexible to cater for this.  We could host servers for Jeroboams Group in our virtual environment, ship temporary devices to site while equipment is purchased or fixed - whatever they require to ensure uptime and business continuity.”

Leader in network management solutions to provide top-tier operator with Celcite‘s SON solution for autonomous network management

Herndon, VA, USA: June 19, 2013 – Celcite, the world’s most advanced and experienced provider of self optimizing network / self organizing network (SON) and automated network management solutions to mobile network operators, today announced that a top five global mobile operator will deploy Celcite’s SON in several key markets.

Celcite SON is a self-optimizing network / self-organizing network solution (SON) that will allow the network operator to trigger autonomous network configurations in near real-time. Some of the world's largest mobile network operators, biggest megacities and most widely watched sports and cultural events are all being optimized by Celcite SON today. Celcite SON has been built on proprietary algorithms developed by Celcite which incorporate in excess of 500,000 man hours of network management experience.

Facing an increased demand for data services and the complexity of managing multiple wireless access technologies, the operator chose Celcite SON to reduce both CAPEX and OPEX, and simplify network management.  The deployment provides the global network operator with a centralized SON solution which continuously configures, optimizes and self-heals its networks, ensuring that radio performance always remains at optimum levels and that the best possible end-user experience is achieved.

Compared to a distributed self optimizing network / self organizing network (D-SON) implementation, centralized SON (C-SON) from Celcite gives the broadest and most coordinated view of radio network performance, and has been proven to deliver more than 15% improvements in capacity utilization and over 20% improvement in dropped call rates across the network.

“While SON is currently attracting a lot of attention from mobile network operators, they cannot afford to take a risk on a partner that does not have deep, detailed, real-world experience of delivering SON in live networks,” said Ajay Khanna, CTO and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Celcite.  “Celcite is the most advanced and experienced vendor with live SON deployment experience, with several on-going SON rollouts and numerous SON trials underway worldwide.  Runaway SON systems can make networks worse, not better, but that risk can be eliminated by an experienced, advanced SON vendor.”

Singapore - June 19th, 2013. As ever more mission-critical applications spread across diverse industries, the performance and SLA requirements placed on connectivity services continue to evolve and get stricter. Customers who really need high quality are too often frustrated with their providers. One reason is that SLA demarcation devices and NIDs no longer meet the service delivery requirements – failing to impress with the networking capabilities required by demanding customers. To meet this demand, the new CreaNODE family empowers service providers to deliver high capacity services with virtually any topology including fiber rings, point-to-point, multi-homed and aggregated 10Gbps uplinks and both 10Gbps and 1Gbps subscriber interfaces. Advanced features such as Link Aggregation, Protection, wire-speed Quality of Service and industry leading SLA Enforcement ensures that the service is Critical Communications ready.
With the new CreaNODE 5000 and 2000 Series, service providers not only get the most flexible and powerful Service Delivery and Aggregation Switches designed for Critical Communications, but also seamless EchoVault integration providing unparalleled network visibility for a service, with SLA and customer perspective.
CreaNODE 5000 and 2000 Series highlights include:
- MEF Services: E-Access, E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree, EPL, EVPL
- High port density delivering up-to 128 Gbps throughput, Full wire speed, 10K jumbo frames
- Port/queue shaping, H-QoS with hardware queues, Q-in-Q, Dual VLAN push/pop
- Robust bandwidth control mechanism and Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring per flow
- Advanced high speed protection mechanisms for link, path, and ring service resiliency
- Complete Ethernet OAM toolbox based on ITU-T Y.1731, IEEE 802.1ag and RFC 2544
- Unique Micro-Burst Detection (MBD) for microsecond granular bandwidth monitoring
- Extensive Precision Timing, IEEE 1588-2008 and Sync-E
- Compact design with low power consumption
The CreaNODE 5000 and 2000 series allow providing advanced services but at the same time, through seamless Creanord EchoVault integration, translate complex technical data such as latency and packet loss into a language that the customer can understand – to answer the question “am I getting what I paid for”. This helps build customer trust and improves the communications service provider brand.
“Extra NIDs are now obsolete in Critical Communications” says Creanord CTO Antti Pappila. “No longer do public safety, defence, healthcare, financial and Ethernet wholesale organizations need to suffer from lack of SLA backed High-Capacity switching and protection mechanisms for link, path, and ring service resiliency. The most demanding services and SLAs can be delivered with the CreaNODE 5000 and 2000 series of Service Delivery and Aggregation switches. Think any topology. Think lowest latency and highest capacity with controlled quality”.
Please contact your local representative for more info.
About Creanord:
Creanord lets carriers Bridge the SLA Gap with a comprehensive solution for Critical Communications providers who need to deliver high quality without compromise.
Creanord solutions are used worldwide by communications service providers serving the most demanding customers, including public safety, finance and wholesale. With the CreaNODE family of networking equipment and multi-vendor EchoVault Assurance and SLA platform our customers win more business and control risks related to network services.
The company has an expanding partner network responding to customer needs in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and Australia.
Press Contact:
Kim Gunnelius
Director, Product Line Management
Tel. +358 40 725 2674
Email: kim.gunnelius[at]creanord[dot]com
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SAP, Cambridge Silicon Radio, Scania, and Nagravision Are Recognised for Their Advanced Use of Version Management

Wokingham, UK, June 19, 2013 – Perforce Software today announced additional European winners of its customer innovation awards. The Versionary Awards recognised pioneering use of version management to meet challenging collaboration and development requirements.

"Our user community are always amazing us with the ways in which they continue to break new ground in their businesses when using version management in innovative ways. The Versionary Awards were launched to recognise these pioneering customers and to demonstrate to our community what is possible when SCM is applied 'outside the box'.” said Mark Warren, EMEA Marketing Director.

The first winners were announced in April at MERGE 2013, the Perforce Conference, held in San Francisco. Additional European winners were announced during the MERGE World Tour, which has stops in London, Munich, Stockholm and Paris before moving on to China, Israel and India.

The winning companies, and the reasons the awards were presented, are as follows:

SAP: Europe's largest and most innovative Perforce installation
CSR: Version management continuity during business transformation
Scania: Versioning in unexpected places (trucks!)
Nagravision: Versioning for high-security applications

Perforce Enterprise Version Management products power the world’s most demanding development environments. Versioning and managing any variety of digital assets—from software and firmware to documents and artwork—Perforce fosters collaboration on a global scale and enables enterprises to enjoy the benefits of greater productivity, security and compliance. More than 400,000 users in over 5,500 organisations—including Fortune 500 companies, world-class innovators and emerging market leaders—use Perforce as their enterprise version management platform.

Free for up to 20 Users
Perforce products are available today from www.perforce.com. The full Perforce product family is provided free to unlimited users for 45-day team evaluations. All Perforce products, are also free to teams of up to 20 users—including access to Perforce technical support. Additionally, Perforce is provided at no cost for perpetual use and with unlimited seats when used for open source projects or by educational institutions.

New satellite technologies including S2 Extensions ensure a return on investment for operators within a matter of months

HONG KONG and SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 19 June 2013.  Satellite communications specialist Newtec and leading Asia-based satellite service provider SpeedCast, today announced the results of an intensive trial of Newtec’s latest S2 Extensions and Clean Channel Technology™.  In the trial results, SpeedCast reports the combination of the two technologies boosted performance and achieved substantial efficiency gains.

The technologies trialled are all incorporated in the Newtec MDM6000 Satellite Modem, which despite being able to handle up to 380 Mbps bi-directionally, can also operate at much lower rates as required for multicarrier applications.

Newtec’s long-term customer SpeedCast, is a leading global network and satellite communications service provider, offering high-quality managed networks services in over 50 countries throughout Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and Africa.

“We are always looking to add value for our customers – one way of achieving this is by adopting highly efficient technology to offer them the greatest value for money,” said Pierre-Jean Beylier, CEO, SpeedCast. “We are very pleased with the gains demonstrated by Newtec, especially while also transmitting at lower rates of a few megabits/sec. We look forward to expanding the use of S2 Extensions to offer significantly improved performance and efficiency for our customers.”

Newtec has taken the lead and teamed up with other DVB members to define and develop the updates to the DVB-S2 standard, currently named S2 Extensions. When comparing the current DVB-S2 standard against the full implementation of S2 Extensions, efficiency gains of up to 37% can be achieved.

Commenting on the trial, Newtec’s CEO Serge Van Herck said, “We are very pleased to have been given the opportunity to show SpeedCast how effective our new technologies are and not only for full transponder SCPC links. The S2 Extensions, which offer OPEX savings that can either boost profits or be passed on to the customer, also offer a very short ROI completion, and thus the new technology ensures excellent value."

S2 Extensions Calculator
Newtec recently launched an S2 Extensions calculator that enables any operator to see the specific gains possible on their own network, which can vary depending on the specific application and network setup. For more information see link: http://www.newtec.eu/services-training/dvb-s2-calculator.

S2 Extensions Info Session and Panel Discussion
To learn more about S2 Extensions and to get an insight into when and how the industry will migrate to the more efficient transmission standard, Newtec is hosting an S2 info session including a panel discussion, at CommunicAsia 2013. Pierre-Jean Beylier is among the confirmed panel speakers. For more information and registration visit http://pages.newtec.eu/sessioncommunicasia2013.html.

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Singapore - 19th June 2013 – On the verge of launching its next-generation satellite constellation, O3b Networks today announced a major long-term capacity deal, providing fiber equivalent capacity to Malaysian telecoms provider Maju Nusa.

The multi-million dollar, multi-year deal, awarded under the auspices of the Ministry of Communications, will allow Maju Nusa to deploy mobile data services significantly further into mobile operators’ networks, reaching rural communities in Malaysia where there is little or no access to broadband.

Maju Nusa is a premium Managed Solutions Provider based in Malaysia, providing a comprehensive range of broadband networking technologies, solutions and services to customers from various market verticals such as Consumers, SME’s, Businesses and Telcos. It aims to close the digital divide existing between rural and urban Malaysia and is involved in a number of government initiatives providing high speed broadband and 3G mobile voice and data coverage to rural Malaysia.

O3b is the first satellite operator to enable a significant 3G network deployment over satellite. Affordable satellite backhaul combined with Maju Nusa’s innovative RAN (Radio Access Network) sharing approach allows voice and data services to be profitable for mobile operators substantially further into the network, extending 3G reach beyond urban centres.

Shahruddin Salehuddin, Managing Director, Maju Nusa, said “We are looking forward to growing our business with the help of O3b. Maju Nusa will employ O3b’s capacity to extend our reach to remote areas by offering high bandwidth, superior quality of service and still be more cost effective when compared to traditional GEO satellites. This announcement is an important step forward as we look to play our part in the 1Malaysia initiative, closing the digital divide between rural and urban areas.”

“Utilising the O3b network, Maju Nusa will be able to deliver 3G service to customers over satellite from 2014. For many, this will mean that they will go from zero connectivity to 3G for cellular services practically overnight. Interactive services are not available today in these areas. Indeed, at present people commonly need to travel out of their village simply to make a phone call. As well as helping us improve our service, O3b helps to reduce Capex costs, aggregating our existing 111 sites over Peninsular Malaysia into only 20 customer terminal locations.”

Steve Collar, CEO, O3b Networks, said, “We are delighted to be announcing our first mobile backhaul deal ahead of our service launch. This will bring 3G services to hundreds of thousands of people who until now have been without broadband connectivity. O3b’s speed and affordability is a perfect complement to Maju Nusa’s innovative 3G network in delivering value to Malaysia’s mobile operators.”

Brussels – June 19, 2013 – India’s VoIP market will grow 27 percent annually over the next five years, some analysts estimate, as the government and service providers invest heavily in wired and wireless broadband expansion. To capitalize on that growing installed base, Knowlarity Communications will use Voxbone DID numbers to provide cloud-based VoIP services to small and medium businesses throughout India and the rest of the world.


Voxbone logo
Consistently ranked as one of Asia-Pacific’s fastest-growing companies, with funding from Sequoia Capital, Knowlarity cloud services enable businesses to reduce communications costs, improve customer service and enhance their competitive position. Knowlarity will use Voxbone international DID numbers to link incoming calls all over the world to its hosted PBX system “Super Receptionist.” The service replaces legacy branch exchanges for small and medium businesses and adds functionalities such as intelligent call routing and CRM integration.

Knowlarity is the latest Indian service provider to select Voxbone numbers. Other customers include Sify Technologies, which has used Voxbone since 2011 to provide worldwide geographical and toll-free telephone numbers.

“Our relationship with Knowlarity shows how Voxbone has quickly become the partner of choice for innovative VoIP and cloud providers across India,” said Itay Rosenfeld, Voxbone CEO. “As an early adopter of Voxbone services, Knowlarity now has a major competitive advantage in the domestic market and the ability to quickly expand internationally.”

“The combination of Knowlarity and Voxbone will give Indian businesses powerful new options for enhancing productivity, customer service, competitiveness and expansion options,” said Ambarish Gupta, Knowlarity CEO and founder. “By working with Voxbone, Knowlarity continues its commitment to changing the way small and medium enterprises do business locally and globally.”

Voxbone provides telephone numbers in more than 50 countries, giving service providers, contact center operators and enterprises access to local numbers that ring on VoIP-enabled systems, phones or applications anywhere in the world. Voxbone’s worldwide geographical, toll-free and geographically independent telephone numbers serve as a technological bridge between cloud-based networks and traditional PSTN and mobile networks.

London, UK, June 19, 2013 – Moorfields Eye Hospital is working with Workspace Virtualisation specialist RES Software to significantly improve IT service delivery across the hospital’s central London campus.

Moorfields has purchased the RES Workspace Virtualisation Suite, which will give 1,800 users instant access to their personal desktop, regardless of the device they are using and their location within the hospital. This will significantly improve access to the patient administration system, allowing clinical staff to more quickly view and immediately update records while on ward rounds.

RES Software’s workspace virtualisation technology will automatically determine what IT services users can access, according to their context (user ID, location and the device being used). This will deliver a consistent end-user desktop experience, significantly reducing log-in times, improving application delivery time and automating access to the nearest printer when users are away from their desk.

The new RES Software solution will also automate many IT services to minimise the time required to support day-to-day IT tasks. This will reduce end-user helpdesk requests and allow the IT team to dedicate more time to strategic IT projects that improve hospital management and clinical services.

Owen Brady, IT Director for Moorfields Eye Hospital, said: “Moorfields is an ophthalmic centre of excellence worldwide, and it is therefore vital that our IT services enable staff to continually improve patient services. We chose RES Software as we wanted to reduce the burden on the IT department of day-to-day system management. RES Software offers a single tool to simplify the delivery of server and application management, which means that we won’t have to deploy multiple tools to achieve our goal of delivering reliable and cost effective IT management.”

About RES Software
RES Software manages and secures the key elements of a user’s computing experience, independent of work styles and devices. By automating how IT services are delivered to virtual workspaces and providing a user-friendly “IT store,” RES Software helps IT professionals master the impacts of IT consumerisation, increasingly sophisticated corporate users, bring-your-own-device initiatives and cloud technologies. RES Software patented technologies are used by a global customer base, and include superior customer support. For more information, follow updates on Twitter @ressoftware and visit www.ressoftware.com.

About Moorfields Eye Hospital

Moorfields is one of the world’s leading eye hospitals, providing expertise in clinical care, research and education. We have provided excellence in eye care for more than 200 years and we continue to be at the forefront of new breakthroughs and developments. We are an integral part of one of the UK’s first academic health science centres, UCL Partners, and were one of the first NHS organisations to achieve foundation trust status in 2004.

We treat the entire range of eye diseases, from common complaints to rare conditions which require treatments not available anywhere else in the UK. We dealt with more than 475,000 patient visits in 2011/12 at our main hospital base in London’s City Road and at 19 other sites in and around the capital, enabling us to provide expert care closer to patients’ homes.

With our research partners at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, we run one of the largest ophthalmic research programmes in the world and have the highest measure of scientific productivity and impact in the world for our research activity.

Industry’s Only Unified Data Transmission Platform Equips Banks with Built-in Workflow & Other Features to Support Compliance Efforts, Providing Added ROI for IT Modernisation

NEW YORK, NY (June 18, 2013) – Global business integration software provider SEEBURGER today announced that its FSI Integration Suite offers advanced features to facilitate bank compliance with U.S. and European regulatory mandates. These features – ranging from built-in workflow to comprehensive audit trails and beyond – come standard with SEEBURGER’s data transmission solution suite for the financial service industry (FSI)  and are directly related to a 100% SEEBURGER-engineered architecture that eliminates the visibility, policy enforcement and interoperability limitations of fragmented legacy systems assembled from multiple third-party products.

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In the case of Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations, for example, the SEEBURGER platform not only automates onboarding, authentication and entitlement procedures needed to meet enhanced due diligence requirements but also applies business rules to the data that traverses the platform to ensure that data meeting pre-defined criteria is routed to the KYC compliance engine or a designated individual. The FSI Integration Suite also keeps an archive of the entire transaction lifecycle, enabling easy auditing and reporting.  The same process can be applied to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations and other mandates such as Dodd Frank and the U.S. Patriot Act.

Similarly, in the case of regulatory reform on derivatives, the SEEBURGER platform provides critical audit trail capabilities that were missing from over-the-counter (OTC) swaps before the financial crisis of 2007. It also provides the sophisticated and highly scalable infrastructure required to handle high-volume, complex data exchange with a near-zero error rate, addressing the 400% increase in OTC derivative data rates that is expected in the first few years of enforcement of the new derivatives regulations.

SEEBURGER features supporting the banking industry’s compliance requirements include:

A built-in BPEL engine that enables complex workflow and process orchestration, enabling banks to quickly add or change rules to address new financial regulations while also eliminating the complications of using a third-party business process management solution.
Centralised data visibility without the information silos created by disparate systems or platforms assembled from multiple third-party components. This includes near-real-time visibility into the status of all data transmissions and business processes, along with automated monitoring to ensure secure, efficient, error-free and uncompromised transmissions.
Integrated governance with policy engine compliance alerts and exception management, including the ability to automatically alert compliance departments to transactions that violate pre-defined rules.
A comprehensive audit trail of all data transfers that simplifies root cause analysis, facilitates production of audit reports, and helps demonstrate compliance effort to both internal and external auditors.
“Regulatory changes will continue to make increasing demands on financial services institutions that cannot be met by legacy technology infrastructure with its fragmented components, limited functionality, and need to manually compile audit trails from the multiplicity of products in use,” said Derek Schwartz, SEEBURGER Senior VP Financial Services. “Implementing a modern, unified infrastructure provides the ability to respond to evolving compliance requirements while also increasing security, reducing the total cost of ownership, and ensuring fast and reliable SLA-compliant operations ranging from payment processing to trade execution.”

The FSI Integration Suite offers a single, unified business integration platform that overcomes the complex mosaic of electronic delivery channels, file formats and data transfer technologies that financial institutions have acquired over the years to accommodate developments ranging from evolving protocols to mergers and acquisitions. This patchwork of systems has resulted in costly tool duplication, expensive custom script maintenance, distributed and fragmented legacy infrastructures that do not interoperate, and difficulty in meeting service level agreements (SLAs). It also limits visibility and traceability that are essential to effective data governance and smooth compliance audits.

With 100% in-house development of all components to avoid interoperability problems caused by acquisition of third-party solutions, the SEEBURGER platform makes it possible to deploy a secure, consolidated communications gateway that can accommodate any format, standard, gateway, protocol and business partner as well as accelerate the pace of data exchange to meet SLAs.

SEEBURGER migration tools and strategies - developed over 27 years of B2B integration experience – reduce migration time and expense, mitigate risk, and assist banks in replacing unwieldy legacy data transmission infrastructures to achieve the benefits of IT modernisation and consolidation.

SEEBURGER is exhibiting at Booth 1841 at the SIFMA Tech conference that opens today in New York.

Creates ‘Single Pane of Glass’ to Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud, VPS Hosting, Backup, CDN, DNS and Other Services Across U.S. and Canada

HostingCon, Austin, TX – June 18, 2013 – Leading cloud and managed services provider, Cartika, has built and launched a new range of enterprise cloud hosting services in just three weeks using the OnApp Cloud platform. Cartika, whose clients include GM, Monster.com, Geek Squad and Sprint as well as many smaller businesses, chose OnApp for its cloud orchestration features, very rapid time-to-deployment, stable API and the ease of integration with its existing infrastructure and systems.

With OnApp, Cartika has built a completely automated cloud platform hosted at SAS 70 (type II) datacenters in Toronto and Dallas. The new Cartika cloud gives customers a single interface to public, private or hybrid cloud services with fully managed or self-service options, and hourly billing. It takes full advantage of the advanced cloud orchestration capabilities of OnApp Cloud v3, including autoscaling and load balancing, with OnApp CDN and DNS and other capabilities to follow.

“We've spent a long time searching for the right cloud platform for the next generation of Cartika cloud services,” said Andrew Rouchotas, Cartika CEO. “It has been a long and frustrating process, and other suppliers have simply failed to deliver what they promised. With OnApp, we have finally found the cloud partner we’ve been looking for. OnApp understands service providers. They understand our business, our environment, and the OnApp team knows instinctively what we need to serve our customers.”

The new Cartika cloud replaces an in-house developed cloud platform based on XenServer.  It joins the company’s VPS service, which launched in April and is also built on OnApp. Cartika customers now have a single place to purchase and configure a wide range of IaaS cloud and VPS services, with CDN, DNS, backup and other add-ons following in the very near future.

“Now our customers get one place to purchase and manage their core cloud services, deployed as they like across our facilities,” Andrew Rouchotas continued. “They can add associated services like load balancing, advanced networking and Bacula4Hosts from the same interface, and pull in other value-added features as we develop them. We’re giving them that ‘single pane of glass’ to the hosting capabilities they need to run their businesses, and what makes it possible is the feature set, networking flexibility and service provider heritage of the OnApp Cloud platform.”

Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of OnApp, said: "We’re proud to be working with the Cartika team. It’s very cool indeed to be working with such a respected and successful service provider, and everyone at OnApp is looking forward to helping Cartika grow its cloud business over the coming years.”

Cartika’s new cloud services are available now at http://cartika.com/cloud-servers. In a separate announcement today, Cartika and OnApp announced their intention to develop native integration between OnApp Cloud and Bacula4Hosts, a unique backup and recovery platform for service providers.