Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. – November 16, 2010 – FastNeuron Inc., a provider of virtual server backup solutions, announced today its partnership with Oter Informatica S.L., a virtualization consulting and hosting service company in Barcelona, Spain. The collaboration between the two virtualization companies is to extend the reach and support of BackupChain Backup Software (BackupChain.com) users in the Spanish market with local representation.
Oter Informatica, S.L. (www.oterinformatica.com) headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, is a virtual infrastructure provider, offering Hyper-V server cluster hosting and consulting services to hundreds of Spanish businesses. Oter Informatica’s offering includes a variety of virtualization-related services, as well as IT-related retail and online backup services.
The Eurozone compared with the US market is currently witnessing a boom in both customer purchases of foreign products and government spending. The euro in comparison with the US dollar is now relatively stable at purchasing 1.40 US dollars for every Euro. This stability and strength of the Euro has further encouraged Europeans to seek out US products at a currency discount. The currency situation is hence also lucrative for U.S. businesses that expand abroad as their products are priced well below European alternatives.
FastNeuron Inc. and Oter Informatica cooperate to meet the data replication needs of SMBs who increasingly invest in virtualization platforms. In particular, Microsoft Hyper-V Server has been gaining in popularity in Spain and the resulting upsurge in server migrations to virtual environments dramatically increased the data backup costs for hosting companies. The alliance of FastNeuron and Oter Informatica aims to reduce these costs by deploying BackupChain Backup Software in Spanish hosting centers.
In addition to Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and VMware, BackupChain Backup Software targets Microsoft’s free virtualization platform Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, which has sparked a worldwide adoption of virtual machines at low cost. Since virtualization relies on hosting several servers virtually at the same time, the risk of data loss has effectively multiplied. One solution to counteract the risk of data loss is to invest in server clusters. To many SMBs, however, the costs of high-availability clusters remain prohibitive and may even neutralize the economic gain that results from virtualization in some settings. The solution to the problem is usually to invest in a more efficient backup system.
According to FastNeuron’s CTO Savas Papadopoulos, SMBs demand organization-wide licensing and live virtual machine backup. BackupChain Backup Software reduces the costs of SMBs by offering package deals and delta compression technology, which dramatically reduces backup storage costs. The company’s CTO emphasized that using delta compression organizations are able to reduce backup storage costs by at least 30%. Moreover, this new technology enables SMBs to back up their virtual machines remotely, even via standard FTP. This compatibility to existing infrastructure, and the ability to create live virtual machine backups while the servers are in operation makes BackupChain the product of choice for data centers, which usually rely on standard open-source technologies to reduce their hosting costs.
Having access to a local and Spanish-speaking support base is a great advantage to BackupChain users who live in Spain. Furthermore, the strategic partnership combines the backup software offering with the numerous local services provided by the Spanish partner, which include consulting and hosting support.
About FastNeuron Inc. FastNeuron markets VMware and innovative backup software worldwide under the brand BackupChain. FastNeuron’s mission is to provide its customers with quality products and services at reasonable prices. Please visit BackupChain.com for more information.
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