France Telecom Orange Selects SugarSync
To provide personal cloud service to business customers
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on November 3, 2011 at 2:39 pm
SugarSync
Inc. announced it has been selected by France Telecom-Orange, a telecommunications operator, to provide Personal Cloud services to Orange’s 2.7 million business customers in France.
SugarSync’s Personal Cloud service will be included in Orange’s Le cloud pro, a new bundle of online applications – including communications,
business management, collaboration, e-marketing and other applications – which Orange announced.
"Here at SugarSync, we
strive to provide the most complete Personal Cloud solutions to both consumers
and small businesses. We have been offering our SugarSync for Business service
for over a year now, and to be selected by Orange to deliver the Personal Cloud to their
business customers is great validation of our approach," said Laura Yecies,
CEO of SugarSync. "SugarSync is excited
to bring the power of the Personal Cloud to Orange’s
2.7 million business customers, and to help Orange reach new customers looking for
innovative Cloud services."
As part of the new Le cloud pro bundle, SugarSync will be
offered directly to Orange’s business customers who are looking for a cloud
solution to backup, sync, access and share all of their files and data on any
device. SugarSync supports both Mac and PC platforms as well as 95 percent of
all mobile devices worldwide, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows
Mobile and Symbian. So regardless of the computer or mobile platforms they use,
Orange customers will be able to take advantage
of SugarSync’s Cloud to stay productive from anywhere, on any device.
"SugarSync has a
proven track record of delivering the most comprehensive Personal Cloud
solution for storing, syncing and sharing files and data for both consumers and
small businesses, so when it came time to select a Cloud partner, they were a
natural choice," said Emmanuel Blain, Product Manager, Orange Business
Applications. "And SugarSync’s superior
mobile device support is critical, as it enables us to reach even more business
customers, regardless of the mobile devices they use."