Incriptus finds first US customer

Stephen Withers
Monday, 05 December 2011 11:08

IT Industry - Deals

The Adelaide-based developer of a distributed backup service has its first US customer: shipping company Craters & Freighters.

At the end of last month, Adelaide-based Incriptus announced it was preparing to take its distributed backup service to an international market. The company has now announced its first US-based customer, Craters & Freighters.

Craters & Freighters specialises in shipping goods that are fragile or difficult to transport, and the shipping of servers between data centres is a growing part of its business.

"We quickly discovered that in many cases some of the servers we were moving had sensitive data that was encrypted," said Diane Gibson, CEO of Craters & Freighters. "Surprisingly none of this data was backed up anywhere. Obviously that makes our job of safely and securely moving the servers absolutely critical.The Incriptus solution is perfectly suited to secure the data on those servers."

Incriptus' approach to backup involves distributing fragments of the files across multiple computers, taking advantage of otherwise unused space. The system ensures redundancy is maintained to ensure availability.

'The application Craters & Freighters see for our technology is spot on and is a great example of the wide variety of industries and customers our distributed security solution serves," said Incriptus founder and CEO Trevor Glen.