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.