R1Soft and cPanel Partner for CDP
[Hosting Headlines] - Control panel maker cPanel and continuous data protection company R1Soft announced on today that they had formed an agreement to integrate their products.
Through the agreement, cPanel license holders, which are generally web hosting providers with large numbers of clients using the control panel, will receive volume discounts on R1Soft’s software, which provides near-continuous disk based backup.
CPanel customers will also receive marketing materials from R1Soft that are intended to help them sell the CDP service to their own customers.
R1Soft says its software now integrates with all the major hosting control panels, including cPanel.
“Providing easy and useful backups is a requirement to stay competitive in the hosting industry. R1Soft takes backups to the next level and we want to make sure that our customers have easy access to that technology,” said Dave Koston, vice president of operations at cPanel, in the press release. “With the ability for users to have access to their high-availability backups right from cPanel, along with the performance and ease of use of R1Soft’s products, it’s a no brainer for our companies to forge this partnership.”
The companies are offering a discount on R1Soft’s software to cPanel users until the end of the month, providing “an introductory collection of continuous data protection software” for $998. The “cPack” includes five copies of each of CDP Agents, CDP for MYSQL and CDP Servers, along with the service provider API for provisioning and one year of technical support and maintenance.
CPanel says the cPack is a savings of more than $2,700. More information about the bundle is available at a landing page on the R1Soft website.
CPanel is currently planning its 2008 partner conference, which takes place June 11 to 13 in Houston, Texas.
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