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XOsoft, a leading provider of continuous application availability software solutions, announced a new partner program aimed at storage service providers. XOsoft also announced that Inflow, a leading provider of managed IT outsourcing services, has signed onto the program. As part of the program, Inflow will use XOsoft's WANSync solutions as an integral platform for its business continuity suite. "Storage Service Providers provide offsite storage and data backup services to customers that do not maintain in-house IT infrastructure and resources," says Tom O'Connell, XOsoft's Vice President of Sales & Alliances. "XOsoft is expanding its partnerships with a program designed specifically for these SSPs. This will enable us to work with SSPs and allow them to offer their customers a truly comprehensive business continuity solution based on XOsoft's technology. Partnering with XOsoft will allow Inflow to focus on its core service and infrastructure competencies without having to worry about the software required for data replication and synchronization. Inflow's vote of confidence and our growing list of SSP, including RFA, Xand, Compulinx, and more, prove that XOsoft's partner programs deliver value for our customers." "We were looking for a solution that would enable us to combine our world class service offering with a best-of-breed data protection platform," says Craig McLellan, General Manager of Business Continuity Services at Inflow. "We conducted an extensive evaluation of all major players in this space. During testing, we confirmed that XOsoft's solutions offered the ability to configure bandwidth, provided unique high-availability automatic failover capabilities, and delivered the reliability and stability we demanded. We were equally impressed with XOsoft's highly responsive support staff. We will now offer WANSync and WANSyncHA as an integral part of our outsourced IT services suite." Böwe Bell & Howell, a provider of document finishing and conversion solutions and an Inflow data center and IT outsourcing customer, is already benefiting from Inflow's business continuity services and ability to provide fast recovery from data corruptions. "We are very pleased with the reduction in productivity loss risks enabled by Inflow's enhanced services suite," says Patrick Ford, Exchange Administrator with Böwe Bell & Howell. "If a disaster strikes, our first priorities are ensuring minimal data loss, restoring data quickly and enabling employees to keep working through automatic fail-over to replicated servers. Inflow's IT outsourcing and business continuity services offering, using the XOsoft WANSync solution, provides us with all of these benefits." The WANSync solutions chosen by Inflow comprise the most advanced WAN-based application integrity and high availability platform. WANSync maintains fully functional backups of entire database and application servers. These synchronized servers may be local to the organization, but may also be situated remotely, with real-time replication carried out over WAN. Should a server fall prey to unexpected failure or be brought down for maintenance, the WANSync solution provides a synchronized replica, regardless of where it is located in the world, allowing the data to be brought online to maintain high availability and seamless service.