KDS chooses Redbus to guarantee the availability of its information system
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Paris, January 10, 2006 – Redbus, (listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol RBI), the #1 neutral datacenter in Europe following its merger with TeleCity, announced the conclusion of an agreement with KDS, the leading European provider of online business travel management solutions.
For over 10 years, KDS has enabled companies to optimize the management of their business travel reducing their travel costs and providing better service to travelers.
KDS solutions are provided as ASP service. The KDS Corporate solution enables major corporations to control their travel spend, while KDS Portal is a solution dedicated to travel management companies.
As a middleman between suppliers, distributors, and buyers, the KDS ASP servers are strategically important. They manage large volumes of information from multiple sources (GDSs, airlines, railways, hotels, car rental companies). KDS also stores its customers' personal data.
In this context, KDS needed a partner able to guarantee high availability of its technical infrastructure while providing a combination of first-class services. Moreover, with customers working in such strategic industries as aerospace, defense, and energy, KDS had very strict requirements concerning SECURITY, STABILITY and RELIABILITY when choosing its service provider.
Following a call for tenders sent to four suppliers with similar technological performance, Redbus successfully stood out from its competitors thanks to its high levels of security, confidentiality, and availability. The Redbus datacenter will provide its InterSuite offer: a dedicated computer room with a backup energy supply, redundant air conditioning, and access control in order to provide a totally secure environment to host the KDS IS infrastructure and dedicated servers.
Finally, KDS will benefit from extensive flexibility and scalability in its space requirements in order to keep up with its fast growth. KDS will have a dedicated team of technicians available on site 24x7x365, and will be free to choose its own telecom operator.
About Redbus
Redbus Interhouse is Europe's most advanced independent colocation company. For business-critical online, data or telecom applications, Redbus Interhouse offers versatile, cost-effective and secure housing facilities backed-up by state-of-the-art infrastructure and 24/7 engineering and facilities support. Redbus Interhouse offers business resilience services within its own independent colocation facilities in Europe's key business centres allowing its customers to rapidly access markets across Europe without losing focus on their core businesses. The enterprise has data centres in London, Paris, Milan, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Its independence gives customers freedom of choice from a wide range of telecommunication providers, Internet Service Providers and Content Providers. Its continued sales success combined with a strong balance sheet, means that Redbus Interhouse enjoys a leading position in this marketplace. In June 04, Redbus Interhouse plc demonstrated its high level of competence in information security management by having the first colocation independent data centre in Europe to be awarded with the BS7799 accreditation, the ultimate benchmark for information security.
KDS solutions are provided as ASP service. The KDS Corporate solution enables major corporations to control their travel spend, while KDS Portal is a solution dedicated to travel management companies.
As a middleman between suppliers, distributors, and buyers, the KDS ASP servers are strategically important. They manage large volumes of information from multiple sources (GDSs, airlines, railways, hotels, car rental companies). KDS also stores its customers' personal data.
In this context, KDS needed a partner able to guarantee high availability of its technical infrastructure while providing a combination of first-class services. Moreover, with customers working in such strategic industries as aerospace, defense, and energy, KDS had very strict requirements concerning SECURITY, STABILITY and RELIABILITY when choosing its service provider.
Following a call for tenders sent to four suppliers with similar technological performance, Redbus successfully stood out from its competitors thanks to its high levels of security, confidentiality, and availability. The Redbus datacenter will provide its InterSuite offer: a dedicated computer room with a backup energy supply, redundant air conditioning, and access control in order to provide a totally secure environment to host the KDS IS infrastructure and dedicated servers.
Finally, KDS will benefit from extensive flexibility and scalability in its space requirements in order to keep up with its fast growth. KDS will have a dedicated team of technicians available on site 24x7x365, and will be free to choose its own telecom operator.
About Redbus
Redbus Interhouse is Europe's most advanced independent colocation company. For business-critical online, data or telecom applications, Redbus Interhouse offers versatile, cost-effective and secure housing facilities backed-up by state-of-the-art infrastructure and 24/7 engineering and facilities support. Redbus Interhouse offers business resilience services within its own independent colocation facilities in Europe's key business centres allowing its customers to rapidly access markets across Europe without losing focus on their core businesses. The enterprise has data centres in London, Paris, Milan, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Its independence gives customers freedom of choice from a wide range of telecommunication providers, Internet Service Providers and Content Providers. Its continued sales success combined with a strong balance sheet, means that Redbus Interhouse enjoys a leading position in this marketplace. In June 04, Redbus Interhouse plc demonstrated its high level of competence in information security management by having the first colocation independent data centre in Europe to be awarded with the BS7799 accreditation, the ultimate benchmark for information security.