Online backup company Central Data Bank, (CDB), and Funambol, a provider of mobile cloud sync and push email, have agreed a partnership to bring Funambol's innovative sync and backup service to Ireland. As a result, CBD is now able to wirelessly sync PIM data, between billions of mobile phones, the Internet cloud, and desktop apps.

CBD offers its service exclusively through the reseller channel and specialist trade verticals and has been repeatedly asked by its customers for a solution for their mobile phone data. CDB researched all product offerings and eventually selected Funambol.

The partnership marks CDB as the first managed service provider for mobile phone data in Ireland. Its Managing Director Dermot Mooney, claims there is nothing comparable to the Funambol solution in Ireland at this time. He said, "This is truly a unique service. Mobile phone users, of all hues, can wirelessly sync their data, from SIM card and from the phone itself, onto an online service in mere seconds."  

Once users have registered with the CDB service, data is protected and secure, regardless of what happens to the user's phone or SIM card. If the handset is lost or damaged, the saved data can still be accessed using a newly purchased phone or they can log into the web portal and view and or modify their phone data online. 

Mooney continued, "No one keeps phone cables anymore and most people save their data on a mixture of SIM and phone. These are the first two operational problems associated with mobile data capture solved in one fell swoop without the need to go near a PC."

Other equally compelling reasons for reluctance to backup mobile data online have traditionally been cost, security and reliability and CDB now claim they are able to address these issues.

"We are offering a business-2-business service though our growing reseller network," explains Mooney. "This service is aimed at professionals and is offered with full Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and a properly developed infrastructure to provide online backup. It is a robust and cost effective solution to the perennial thorny issue of mobile phone data backup." 

Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City, California and has an R&D center in Italy. Its open source-based solution provides the industry's broadest mobile device compatibility, backed by the world's largest cross-platform mobile developer community numbering 50,000, who help test the software on thousands of different smart and feature phones. Funambol open source can be downloaded and freely used for internal projects, as well as rapidly translated into different languages and adapted for the latest mobile devices.

Christian Marsch, Funambol Vice President, also expressed his satisfaction with the new partnership. "For businesses, the security and reliability of mobile data is as important as the service itself. By partnering with CDB, we can offer this extra step, this extra layer of service which is vital for businesses, large and small. They cannot afford not to backup mobile data but they also cannot afford to have it compromised."

CDB expect to have more than 50,000 handsets backed up for business clients in Ireland by the end of 2009.

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