FarStone Expands European Market Presence with New Republishing Agreements.New and Renewed Relationships with Editions Profil and Mediaphor Deliver French and German Versions of FarStone's Data Recovery Software and CD/DVD Emulators to Europe IRVINE, Calif. -- FarStone Technology, Inc., developer of PC system recovery software and CD/DVD content replication solutions, today announced delivery of RestoreIT([R]), data backup and recovery software, DriveClone[TM], drive cloning cloning: see clone. To make a product that functions like another. See clone. See also cloning software. and data transfer utility software and VirtualDrive([R]), CD/DVD emulator utility software, to the Western European marketplace through agreements with software publishers in France and Germany. Based out of Montrouge, France, Editions Profil localizes and distributes RestoreIT, DriveClone and VirtualDrive products to the consumer and academic markets. Editions Profil currently places FarStone software in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland in over 20 purchasing outlets, including major retail stores such as FNAC FNAC Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology FNAC Fédération Nationale des Agents Commerciaux (France: National Federation of Commercial Agents) FNAC Fédération Nationale d'Achat des Cadres (1954; French) and Internet channels The Internet Channel is a version of the Opera 9 web browser for use on the Wii by Opera Software and Nintendo.[1] On December 22, 2006, a free beta version (promoted as a "trial version") of the browser was released. such as Amazon.fr. In recent product reviews seen in Windows News (www.futurenet.fr), RestoreIT received the "Editor's Choice." More information on this award can be found at www.farstone.eu and on Editions Profil's web site at http://www.editions-profil.eu. "We are extremely pleased that FarStone is providing easy to use software products for our local markets. We see increasing demand for data recovery for both consumer and business users and FarStone solutions work very well with our market needs," says Franck Chartier, Marketing Manager at Editions Profil. Based out of Paderborn, Germany, Mediaphor will localize lo·cal·ize v. lo·cal·ized, lo·cal·iz·ing, lo·cal·iz·es v.tr. 1. To make local: decentralize and localize political authority. 2. and market RestoreIT and VirtualDrive products to the German consumer market. Mediaphor currently offers the software to more than 300,000 subscribed customers at their online shop available at www.nobox.de. "FarStone's RestoreIT and VirtualDrive software are two important solutions to both protecting and managing system and personal data," said Gunter Wielage, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Mediaphor. "We are happy to be working with FarStone to deliver these solutions to German-speaking customers." "I am pleased that Editions Profil and Mediaphor are localizing FarStone's software," said Herbert Perer, FarStone's Director of International Sales. "This shows a strong commitment to meet the requirements of their customer base and will lead to a wider acceptance of our software in Europe." About FarStone Software Titles FarStone's RestoreIT Personal Disaster Recovery[TM] software is the best insurance policy against data loss and PC problems. RestoreIT's patented technology creates ongoing, complete and multiple incremental backup See backup types. (operating system) incremental backup - A kind of backup that copies all files which have changed since the date of the previous backup. The first backup of a file system should include all files - a "full backup". Call this level 0. images of a user's entire PC. After a virus/pop-up/spyware attack, accidental file deletion/overwrite or complete system OS failure, users can simply click RestoreIT to instantly roll their system back to a point when everything was working properly. FarStone's DriveClone software is cloning software Software that copies the full image of a hard disk to another machine via direct cable or the network. Cloning saves time setting up new machines by eliminating the installation of the operating system and each individual application. See image file, reimaging, ghosting server and clone. that copies an exact image of a computer's hard drive or hard drive partitions and stores the image as a compressed archive of all files, all partition A reserved part of disk or memory that is set aside for some purpose. On a PC, new hard disks must be partitioned before they can be formatted for the operating system, and the Fdisk utility is used for this task. information and all security information. DriveClone allows users to back up and recover data, clone clone, group of organisms, all of which are descended from a single individual through asexual reproduction, as in a pure cell culture of bacteria. Except for changes in the hereditary material that come about by mutation, all members of a clone are genetically a single hard drive onto another drive, or copy a hard drive across multiple computer systems. FarStone's VirtualDrive provides users with an easier way to access and manage their collection of CDs and DVDs. With the easy-to-use interface, users can simply create "virtual" images of their CDs and DVDs and store them all on their hard drive, then just click to load and play them on any one of up to 23 "virtual" CD/DVD drives that VirtualDrive can create on the hard drive. Users no longer have to find or carry and load their CD and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. discs to play them, which saves their disc collection from handling damage. FarStone's patented RapidCache[TM] technology improves PC performance by reducing CD/DVD access times by up to 75 percent with zero disc spin up time. The Virtual Hard Drive feature emulates a hard disk drive in RAM, so users can store files and run programs at high speeds in non-swappable physical memory. About Editions Profil Established in 1989, Editions Profil is a French software publisher who develops, publishes and distributes software in various branches of the professional industry, and to the general public. Specializing in office automation and productivity, Editions Profil particularly specializes in the distribution of tools for computer security and data protection. Editions Profil publishes the solutions of safety with BitDefender antivirus Refers to detecting and blocking computer viruses. See antivirus program, behavior blocking, virus and virus hoaxes. , ZeroSpyware, Parental Filter and FarStone's RestoreIT, and distributes the Kroll-Ontrack solutions of recovery of data and management solutions. More information can be seen at http://www.editions-profil.eu About Mediaphor Mediaphor Software Entertainment AG (a private, incorporated company), which initially concentrated its activities on the computer book sector in the German-speaking world, was founded in 1999 by the present-day CEO Gunter Wielage. These already existing business relations to the publishing companies led to the gradual development of the software license trade, which is meanwhile the company's sole business division on a Europe-wide level. In fulfillment of this business objective, Mediaphor focuses primarily in the areas of localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. , project development, marketing and sales. More information can be seen at http://www.mediaphor.de/. About FarStone Founded in 1993, FarStone Technology is a leading developer of PC and network-based system recovery solutions and a provider of digital content security, replication and management utilities. FarStone is an ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certified See certification. software publisher holding multiple technology patents. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., the company licenses its software to corporations, small businesses, educational institutions and consumers worldwide. FarStone's global technology partners include Intel, Phoenix Technologies, Trend Micro, Intervideo, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Authentium, Fujitsu, and HiNet, Taiwan. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.farstone.com. |
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