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Arkeia Partners with Federal Edge to offer data
protection solutions for government agencies
CARLSBAD, Calif., April 4, 2005 Federal Edge, a premier government solutions
partner, and Arkeia Corporation, the leading provider of backup and recovery
solutions for Linux-based environments, today announced that Arkeia's data
protection solutions will now be available to federal, state and local government
agencies through Federal Edge's GSA Schedule (#GS-35F-0091M ).
Federal Edge, a Riverside, Calif.-based provider of technology solutions and
consulting services, has signed a value-added reseller (VAR) agreement with Arkeia.
The agreement calls for Federal Edge to sell Arkeia's network and server backup and
recovery software product lines. Federal Edge will now provide government agencies with an easy mechanism to purchase Arkeia's robust, scalable and reliable data protection solution for Linux and UNIX environments.
"Being able to provide our government and military customers with complete data
protection for their Linux and UNIX servers is an important differentiator for us," said Cindra Stolk, president of Federal Edge. "Through this partnership, we are able to offer a cost-effective way to ensure the highest levels of data backup and recovery for Linux servers in the industry."
"By partnering with Federal Edge, Arkeia will be able to capture greater market share and better address the needs of customers in the federal government sector," said Rick DiViesti, Arkeia's director of sales. "We can then build on this relationship to expand our government program and make our products available to more federal institutions."
Arkeia Network Backup features 64-bit Linux® support for Intel® Itanium® 2 and
support of Kernel 2.6 Linux distributions. Arkeia also offers a tightly integrated solution for open databases and applications such as MySQL®, Oracle®, DB2® and Microsoft® Exchange. Arkeia Server Backup features support for tape autoloaders, allowing fully automatic backup of high-volume servers. It is compatible with all major tape devices on the market as well as numerous tape media technologies. Other features include automatic multi-flow backup from disks, a choice of simple or detailed log reports and compatibility with new Arkeia hot backup plug-ins.
About Federal Edge
Federal Edge is a Small, Woman-Owned, HUBZoned business focused on providing
enterprise class solutions to both Federal and State and Local government agencies.
They are focused on providing personalized attention to their customer base, and
known for their excellent level of customer service and support. Federal Edge is an
Authorized Reseller for several of the I.T. industries "best of breed" products, and has
core competencies in the areas of high performance computing, storage and storage
management, as well as backup and disaster recovery. For more information on
products and services offered by Federal Edge, call 951-683-5024 or visit
http://www.federaledge.com.
About Arkeia Corporation
Arkeia Corporation is a leading provider of established backup and recovery solutions
for departments and mid-size businesses utilizing Linux. Arkeia offers data protection
software designed to ease the life of system administrators by providing efficient
technology at a competitive price.
Products include Arkeia Network Backup, Arkeia Server Backup, bare metal Disaster
Recovery modules, NDMP support for NAS backup and hot backup plug-ins for
Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Lotus, Open-Xchange (including SLOX), LDAP,
and MS Exchange and MS SQL Servers.
Protecting more than 100,000 networks worldwide, Arkeia solutions have been
adopted by 4,000 corporate-class customers in over 50 countries since 1999. Arkeia
is privately held, with investment funding support from two major banking concerns.
Offices are in Carlsbad, CA and Paris, France.
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