Immochan (the commercial real estate arm of the Auchan Group) deploys UltraBac as their Disaster Recovery solution for its windows servers and its virtual machines.

Since 1976, Immochan has been the real estate arm within the Auchan Group. It has operated as full service real estate company since 1997 and is one of the leading European development companies specialising in commercial urban planning.

SOME FIGURES : Immochan has: more than 250 shopping centres in 11 countries around the world 260 members of staff in France and abroad over 1 million square metres of rented space in malls 1,6 billion visitors per year to its shopping centres 8600 commercial partners around the world

Immochan success lies in its multi-disciplinary team of 260 associates covering the many skills that Immochan needs : surveyors, urban developers, architects, building technicians, attorneys, real estate and commercial managers and financiers.

To meet the challenges of Data protection and business system continuity, Immochan choose the UltraBac Backup and Disaster Recovery software tools.
The computerised information systems are at the core of Immochan's operations. Full access at all times to the information systems, data and business applications by employees and partners at Immochan's world wide offices is critical to ensuring the efficient operation of the company.

In this environment any hardware failure can stop operational activities and the related business processes. One of the major risks in such a scenario is the loss of information systems and the corruption of business data.

Reducing downtime to a minimum, securing and ensuring data integrity, were the major features that lead Immochan to select the UltraBac suite.

"We selected UltraBac Disaster Recovery after testing the many of the solutions available on the market. UltraBac impressed us not only for its technical capabilities and it efficient and multi faceted response capabilities to real life Disaster Recovery issues, but also for its dependable innovative and multiple features such as dissimilar hardware or virtual machines restore capabilities. Add to these features UltraBac's very affordable price for securing the whole spectrum of servers and you have winning products that gives our users and system engineers piece of mind."
Frrédéric Détez de la Drève, Project leader Immochan

Fabrice Capron, head of deployment in charge of systems availability and UltraBac deployment within Immochan : "Installation, configuration and the use are very easy; the user interface is intuitive and logical, which allows us to make more efficient use of the software. Ultrabac turned out to be the most dependable backup and Disaster Recovery Tool we tried. Its ability to restore a machine is a crucial point of our activity. UltraBac has always fulfilled its role when we had to use it in a critical situation. Ultrabac support is extremely responsive."

With over 200 active client agents the Ultrabac software suite is more efficient and economical than most software publishers in the European market.

Included among the better known users of UltraBac are: NASA, Cisco, American Express, Ernst & Young, Fortis Bank, Louis Vuitton, Malletier, Deutsche Telekom, Fenwick-Linde and now Carbone Lorraine.

BSEEN International distributes the UltraBac Software suite in Europe.

About UltraBac Software :
UltraBac Software is based in Bellevue, Washington and has been an innovator in designing high-performance and sophisticated utility software for over two decades. The privately held corporation has been specializing in storage management software since 1989, and released UltraBac Backup and Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Windows NT in 1995. As a technology leader, UltraBac Software has compiled a long list of firsts and has squarely positioned itself as a premier solution provider for users who demand the very best in protection for their mission-critical data. UltraBac is scalable from small to large users and caters to a wide array of diverse business computing environments. To learn more about UltraBac or to download a live trial of the software, visit www.ultrabac.com.



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