Storage Value-Added Distributor Expands Arkeia's Business in France
Paris, France October 4, 2011 – Arkeia Software, a leading provider of fast, easy-to-use, and affordable network backup solutions, and Additional Design, a branch of the storage group Exer Datacom that specializes in integrating and selling storage solutions, announced a distribution agreement. The partnership allows Additional Design to market Arkeia’s full range of software and backup appliances to their network of over 300 partners. Additional Design’s expertise in the storage industry, as well as their broad support in the region will aid Arkeia in further penetrating the French market.
Arkeia will benefit from Additional Design’s technology resources including, additional sales and technical support to promote and deploy Arkeia Network Backup in France.
"We expect this partnership to be more frequently associated with projects that combine both the problems of storage and data protection," said Philippe Guyard, France sales manager of Arkeia Software. "The expertise of Additional Design in this area and the large number of resellers, storage specialists make it a key partner for the marketing of Arkeia solutions in France.
Arkeia has steadily grown over the past two years and added highly developed features to its flagship software including patented Progressive Deduplication ™, support for four leading virtual environment platforms, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Red Hat RHEV and top-of-the-line physical and virtual appliances. Arkeia’s solutions are easy to use and will be complementary to the existing catalog of Additional Design.
"This partnership with Arkeia allows us to complete our range of storage products offers our partners a complete backup solution for professionals," said Michel Grunspan, president of Additional Design Group Exer Datacom. "We were particularly excited by the extreme growth and development in this market." This agreement includes marketing resources, sales and technical support and marketing programs.
Arkeia provides eight models of all-in-one backup appliances, as well as virtual appliances and software backup servers for deployment on customer hardware. Hosting providers typically deploy Arkeia software, rather than appliances, in their network operations centers.
About Additional Design
ADDITIONAL DESIGN, a distributor, importer, and value-added reseller for 22 years, specializes in integrating and marketing storage solutions to secure RAID technology and associated backup solutions in heterogeneous environments (NT ®, MAC OS, Solaris ®, IRIX ®, AIX ®) and covers a comprehensive range of technologies built around the most advanced, best performing and most flexible solutions in the global computer market. In 2011, Additional Design was integrated into the structure of Exer Datacom, located in Lille, a specialist in security solutions, mobility and Green IT.
The group distributes Exer Datacom ranges Aruba Networks, Peer Software, Barracuda Networks, Fiberlink, F-Secure, LogLogic, Nasstor, Netasq, Overland, Arkeia, Ucopia, AVOB.
About Arkeia Network Backup
Arkeia Software delivers fast, easy-to-use, and affordable solutions for data backup and disaster recovery. The award-winning Arkeia Network Backup Suite is designed for mid-sized organizations and safeguards more than 100,000 networks for 7,000 customers in 70 countries. Arkeia’s integrated solution is ideal for the consolidation of disparate backup products. We protect all major virtual platforms including VMware, Hyper-V, and XenServer—and over 200 physical platforms including AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS, Netware, Solaris, and Windows. Arkeia delivers software and both virtual and hardware appliances, backing up data to disk, tape, and the cloud. We provide bare-metal disaster recovery, LAN/WAN replication of backup sets, and numerous hot backup agents. Arkeia’s unique source-side progressive deduplication technology reduces storage requirements and accelerates backups, especially of virtual environments. Arkeia shipped the industry’s first network backup solution for Linux in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Arkeia and Arkeia Network Backup are trademarks or registered trademarks of Arkeia Software, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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