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Lochristi,Belgium - July 24th, 2009 - [PR2WEB] A-Server, a specialist in Cloud Computing, has announced SymetriQ as the first European service provider customer for its Cloud Computing platform DAAS.com (Datacenter-as-a-Service). SymetriQ will launch its Enterprise Public Cloud in August from a Data Centre near London offering a fully scalable Cloud Computing platform aimed at enterprise customers who require higher level service agreements and greater flexibility than currently offered by "consumer" clouds such as Amazon, GoGrid and FlexiScale.

The SymetriQ Public Enterprise Cloud is built on A-Server technology giving end users complete control over processing power and provisioning of storage capacity, allowing them to create and implement virtual firewalls, encryption devices, manage internal and external IP addresses and all of this through a dynamic Flash interface.

"A-Server provides us with a solid framework to allow us to deliver a Cloud Computing infrastructure suitable for enterprise customers who demand reliability, performance and the ability to quickly scale," comments Phillip Huber, MD and Co-Founder of SymetriQ. "We talked to potential customers and many liked the idea of Cloud Computing but were dismayed by the current lack of worthwhile Service Level Agreements. Also there are still fears over the security of the data centre where potentially critical applications and sensitive data would be housed."

In response to these concerns, the SymetriQ Enterprise Cloud is housed in an ISO27001 and ISO 9001 certified data centre. In addition, the service provides automatic data backups that are fully end-user manageable. Although a public service, clients will be seeing levels of services and underlying technology that they would expect from an Enterprise partner. The entire service is backed up by an enterprise class SLA, which covers availability.

Huber, formerly part of the management team at FlexiScale, believes that another key differentiator is true flexibility. "We use a drag and drop provisioning system and custom written billing engine that allows clients to deploy a private data centre quickly and then charge them by the hour," he explains. "There are no long term contracts, you can use our cloud in one hour increments while long term data storage charges are only a few pence per gigabyte per month - we only charge clients when they use the resources like a true utility."

A-Server provided and installed pre-certified SUN based hardware and its Q-layer based Cloud computing technology for SymetriQ in early July. The platform is currently going through a final stress test ahead of a Beta launch scheduled for early August. At launch, the service will offer around 20 pre-configured application and operating system images within the drag and drop configuration system with an expanded range to follow quickly, mostly driven by SymetriQ's partners.
"Our partnership with SymetriQ has allowed them to go from proof of concept to fu

lly operational Cloud platform in just under eight weeks," comments Arvid Fossen, Director of Product Management and Marketing for A-Server. "The A-server technology platform is helping service providers enter the Cloud Computing market with a credible and certified offering based on industry standard SUN hardware backed by our technical expertise which has been developing this technology for the last three years."

A-Server, which offers its Cloud computing platform under the Datacenter As A Service (DAAS.com) brand, will be announcing a number of additional European service providers who have adopted its cloud-computing platform over the next few months.

About SymetriQ
SymetriQ is a provider of Cloud Computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), privately funded and financially solid. It was founded in the UKin January 2009 by a team with an unusual mix of IT, corporate and cloud experience from the early days of that technology and is backed by a team of world class strategic partners. The company offers a fully automated, enterprise level Cloud platform in the UK that delivers the scalable, cost-effective, on-demand power of Cloud Computing with complete user control, total billing transparency and the comfort of data security. SymetriQ is based in Scotland's beautiful and stimulating Festival City,Edinburgh. Visit www.symetriq.com

About A-Server NV
A-Server specializes in ready to go Cloud Computing products. Today's datacenter vendors deliver hardware or software per piece where services to obtain a higher service model are often missing. Building a cloud solution therefore requires a long and complex integration path. More than any other company, A-Server focuses with DAAS.com on providing turnkey solutions, including hardware, cloud computing software and monitoring services, delivered in their customers datacenters worldwide. The DAAS.com product line helps customers that are looking to launch a cloud computing offering to speed up their go to market and provide them a very complete set of cloud features from day one. For more information, visit www.daas.com

Alongside its innovations within cloud computing, A-Server is also active in providing Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliances for channel partners across Europe. The A-Server Backup Appliance is installed at an end user site by the channel partner and includes virtualization to bring live backup servers instantly. The Backup & Disaster Recovery Appliance uses a monthly cost model for channel partners, including 24/7 support, monitoring and NOC.

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