Progtech Chooses Asigra Cloud Backup for DACH region
Previously customer of Novastor Software
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on January 31, 2013 at 3:04 pm
Asigra
Inc. announced that PROGTECH GmbH
has selected Asigra Cloud Backup to deliver cloud backup services to
the DACH region.
PROGTECH customers include distributed
manufacturers and companies in the call center market with multiple
remote locations as well as agencies in the healthcare sector. The
service provider also delivers access to IT resellers and OEMs who
private label their services. In addition to cloud backup and
recovery, the company also specializes in internet security and
managed security solutions. The company has grown since its founding
in 1994 and now looks toward cloud-based data protection to grow
operations further.
"Backing up data to tape is a
process best left to the last century. Cloud backup is
state-of-the-art when it comes to securing your expanding volumes of
business data and sensitive company information in a professional,
safe and cost effective way," said Glauco Bischof, Head of
Sales for PROGTECH. "This is reaffirmed with Asigra’s
backup platform thanks to the exceptionally high standard of
security, agentless architecture for simple and easy management and
bulletproof reliability for recovery assurance."
PROGTECH was previously a customer of
Novastor Software AG, but now
has Asigra-based cloud backup services deployed across a number of
organizations who comment favorably on both the service and the
support.
According to Bischof, "Asigra
has been one of our most trusted vendors. We are treated as a real
partner by their management team and receive broad and timely support
when and how our customer require. Their workflow is professional and
our point of contact is always available for us with attentive care.
We look forward to growing our professional partnership."
Western Europe is forecast to account
for 17% of the absolute growth globally in the cloud services market
.This highlights the availability and adoption of cloud services in
this region. The company is one of the hundreds of cloud service
providers worldwide who are growing market share in the cloud backup
space with services based on Asigra software. In addition to
technology, Asigra supports its partner ecosystem with sales and
marketing solutions, e-learning systems, hands-on Level 1 and Level 2
training, national and international training centers and 24/7
engineering support.
"We’re happy to have PROGTECH
become a member of our partner ecosystem," said David Smith,
VP, partner sales, Asigra. "Customers who desire a single
solution to consolidate backup across their entire IT operation in a
highly secure and efficient manner can depend upon PROGTECH to
provide that capability. We look forward to having them as one of our
valued partners in the region."
The cloud backup is localized into
Germany specifically for the DACH region and the company provides
European time zone support hours for customers in that area. It
enables international partners with value beyond software to
implement practices in sales and marketing processes.