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Innovative solution provides real-time backup, offsite replication and
instant virtualisation technology delivered as a managed service suited to
small and medium businesses. SNS Europe talked to Matthias Buckinx,
Founder of Mylo Inc.
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A-Server, a supplier of cloud customer, who gets fewer sector, and many more. All
computing (DAAS.com), data options and rarely what he these customers share the fact
UCKINX
backup and recovery solutions really needs. that their data is extremely
recently announced details of sensitive and of very high
the work of its growing Knowing that BMW had value to them. Our objective is
channel, which now includes decided to get rid of its own IT to supply our customers with a
over 100 partners across the department, of which Buckinx round the clock means of
Europe. Mylo Inc, an A-Server was a part, he took the premium support.”
partner based in Belgium, now initiative to start Mylo Inc. in
has over 47 servers under the December and started Mylo Inc originally created its
management, primarily within contacting the independent own custom backup and
BMW dealerships across the BMW Dealerships in January recovery solution but switched
country. 2008. Starting off with about to A-Server during 2008 to
one quarter of the Belgian scale and improve its service
Mylo Inc. is a very young BMW dealers as a customer, and add additional features
company. It was founded in today, just a little over a year such as Instant Virtualisation.
December 2007. The founder, later, Mylo Inc. is a service Buckinx tells the story: “Our
Mathias Buckinx, worked for provider for more than half of first MiRA servers were very
BMW Belgium as an IT the BMW dealerships in good machines. They did their
engineer and consultant for Belgium. According to Buckinx: backups on a daily basis, were
eight years and was mainly “Our policy of giving the able to make hardware
working on the Dealer IT. customer what they want, and independent restores and
Mathias Buckinx had a lot of giving them the possibility to could virtualize just about any
field experience and was run their businesses their way type of server that was
confronted with networks of is a completely new approach supported by VMWare. It was,
just a few computers and a to them.” however, not a complete
server, and also with networks alternative to tape backup or
of many more workstations Mylo Inc does have other any other type of backup
and servers, distributed over customers outside the system that allows you to go
several branch offices. Buckinx automotive market. Buckinx back in time to recover a single
knew that the needs of a small explains: “We are also the IT file or folder. So, even though
dealership are nowhere the partner for Inditex Belgium and people had their MiRA server
same as those of the bigger Holland, providing every Zara, running inside their networks,
ones. BMW was more in favour Bershka, Pull & Bear and Zara they still needed to perform
of standardising the Home shop with equipment other types of daily backups
infrastructures, which, of such as PDAs, barcode and/or have some kind of
course, has its advantages for scanners, mobile printers. And offsite storage solution. “Our
the service provider, but can we have some customers in first MiRA servers were only
be quite limiting to the the energy sector, the financial able to allow people to
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