Datacastle Partners With Misco

Datacastle Corporation and MISCO Germany Inc., an online provider of IT products and services and division of Systemax Inc., have partnered to offer commercial users, end users, resellers and system integrators a cloud-based backup and data protection solution.

In 2009 the German Government modified Germany’s Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatebschutzgesetz) BDSG to require companies to notify victims of data breaches. Germany is also a leader in the EU discussions to protect employee and customer information. "With the possibility of growing media coverage of data breaches and public awareness, German companies will continue to take data privacy very seriously," commented Stefan Schimansky, General Manager of MISCO Germany. "This partnership with Datacastle positions us to address the backup and data protection needs of organizations as well as to provide resellers and system integrators with a service they can offer their customers."

The partnership between Datacastle and MISCO Germany will enable organizations to protect sensitive information and backup critical data on laptops, desktops and tablets with a single agent that is centrally managed from a vault deployed on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. Datacastle Personal Edition from MISCO Germany will offer automatic online backup and recovery, while Datacastle Enterprise Edition will also include at rest encryption, port access control, remote data deletion and device trace.

MISCO Germany will also give resellers and system integrators an additional service to offer their current customers and open up new revenue streams. Because the Datacastle solution is a hosted service, resellers eliminate infrastructure costs, minimize the strain on IT resources, and can get up and running fast to offer a backup and data protection solution to their customers.

"MISCO Germany has the breadth of customer coverage and quality of service to meet commercial, end user and reseller needs while delivering a high quality service," said Ron Faith, president and CEO of Datacastle. "We are thrilled to be partnering with them to bring the Datacastle cloud-based backup and data protection solution to the German market."