May 3, 2008 -- The feature packed backup solution is ideal for businesses of any size with data storage needs or disaster recovery planning. Complete administrative functionality with Cartika's Dedicated Backup Servers, allow companies of all sizes to instantly deploy and manage their disaster recovery solution. ISP's and Hosting Providers can leverage this technology to provide reliable, efficient and easy to use, offsite backup/recovery solutions for their clients.

"Our Continuous Data Protection solutions allow companies to securely and affordably protect important data against loss and unintended modification. As regulatory requirements for data handling continue to increase, and businesses depend more than ever on servers to store their mission-critical data, the demand for this data protection technology will continue to grow," said David Wartell, CEO of R1Soft. "We are excited to provide this technology to Cartika Hosting and its clients."

Cartika's Dedicated Backup Server delivers bare-metal recovery that allows customers to recover servers to their original known state. CDP provides a near-continuous snapshot of customer data, with the ability to rollback to the last data snapshot to minimize loss.

"At R1Soft, we designed our backup so that it minimizes bandwidth and CPU cycles to save overhead and disk space on busy servers, Customers can schedule backup several times an hour even on busy servers, with near-continuous online backups, compression and end-to-end strong encryption. These affordable prices offer every reason that now's the right time to select a new backup solution," said R1Soft Founder and CEO David Wartell.

To learn more about Cartika Hosting, please visit http://www.cartikahosting.com.

About Cartika Hosting
Cartika IT Solution Providers Inc. was established and founded in May of 2000. Internationally recognized as leaders in clustered Web hosting solutions, Cartika caters to businesses of all sizes providing shared, reseller and dedicated hosting solutions on Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD operating systems supporting a multitude of solutions, languages and development platforms, including ColdFusion, SharePoint, MS Exchange, CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Market differentiators include automated, multi-platform, managed clustered solutions allowing companies to scale across platforms, services and across a potentially infinite number of nodes from central control interfaces. Cartika is based in Toronto, Canada, with offices in both Toronto and Dallas, Texas.