Pictime Datacenter Selects Arkeia Software for Hosted Backup Services

SAN DIEGO, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Arkeia Software, a leading provider of fast, easy-to-use, and affordable network backup solutions, today announced that Pictime Datacenter has become the latest hosting company to deliver backup services based on Arkeia Network Backup to their customers.  Using Arkeia Network Backup, Pictime Datacenter's backup business both increases customer loyalty and improves profitability.  After using Arkeia Network Backup successfully for internal backups at Pictime, the company decided to add backup services to expand its service offerings.  

Pictime Datacenter, the hosting provider division of Pictime, delivers solutions and services for the hosting and management of high-availability applications.  The company maintains three large datacenters, each containing hundreds of physical servers.  Pictime Datacenter has standardized on Arkeia Network Backup to provide highly reliable and fast backup and restores in heterogeneous environments.

"The installation of a backup agent takes only 15 minutes as you simply configure a given machine and point it at the shared backup server.  We could deploy the Arkeia solution twice as fast as any of the previously-used backup products, and backups and restores have proven to be much more reliable.  If needed, we can easily access technical support and enjoy a quick response," said Fabien Dachicourt, Technical Director at Pictime Datacenter.  "Arkeia listens to our development suggestions and works with us, making it simple for us to build a successful backup business using Arkeia Network Backup."  

Arkeia Network Backup builds customer loyalty and generates profits

"Pictime Datacenter offers highly reliable hosting infrastructure and has built a reputation for quality product and unparalleled service," said Frederic Renard, vice-president of marketing at Arkeia Software.  "Backup services for hosting companies generate high margin, incremental revenue and improve customer retention.  Arkeia Network Backup Version 8.1 was designed for hosting companies like Pictime with features such as extensible reporting and user-initiated restores."

Go to http://www.arkeia.com/hosting to learn more about Arkeia's solutions for hosting providers.

About Arkeia Software

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 both mid-sized organizations and multi-site enterprises, and safeguards more than 100,000 networks for 7,000 customers in 70 countries.  Arkeia's products protect data on over 150 platforms, including virtually all Linux and Windows platforms, as well as AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Macintosh, Netware, and Solaris.  Arkeia Backup Servers are deployed in three modes:  as software applications, appliances, or virtual appliances.  Complementary suite software includes file agents, application agents, database agents, virtual machine agents, disaster recovery agents, backup replication servers, and central management servers.  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.

SOURCE Arkeia Software