ICOS is a value-added distributor that offers channel partners IT solutions and services designed to successfully address the most complex business challenges. The company provides a full range of solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, IT infrastructure and cloud.
The agreement that ICOS has just signed with is therefore expected to be of great scope and extensive practical value Cubbitan all-Europen company that makes a geo-distributed, secure, innovative, versatile, resilient and compliant cloud storage service available to a vast audience of users (from private individuals to enterprises).
Unlike the services of cloud storage traditional, in fact, Cubbit does not store user data in a few centralized data centers. Instead, it offers customers the ability to rely ongeo-distributed architecturewhere data is automatically encrypted, fragmented and replicated across multiple nodes within the borders of a single country.
What is the importance of the agreement between ICOS and Cubbit
L’distribution agreement between the deep tech startup and the distributor specializing in storage and cybersecurity offers resellers and MSPs (Managed Service Provider), in the territories of Europe, Greece, Cyprus and Malta, a cloud object storage with maximum security, fully compliant GDPR e ISO 27001.
Instead of relying on provider cloud who are based outside the borders of the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA), Cubbit allows you to manage professional and business data while always keeping them in Europe. In this way it is possible to look at digital sovereignty, a concept increasingly dear to the European legislator, while being certain of maintaining full control over your data and customer information.
The agreement between ICOS and Cubbit means that the distributor’s partners are able to propose and provide companies with a cloud object storage hyper-resilient, sovereign and 100% S3-compatible, without the additional costs traditionally required for geographical data redundancy. For example, anyone who uses it storage S3 of Amazon AWS, does not have to make costly changes and intervene on the functioning of the applications and services used in the company: just introduce the connection data communicated by Cubbit and that’s it. Indeed, the transition to Cubbit allows you to save 80% of costs on AWS.
The certainty of being able to respond to any IT incidents, including ransomware, thanks to the immutability of the data
The approach chosen by Cubbit puts companies and professionals in a position to respond adequately to any cyber incidentswith the ability to do business-as-usual even in the event of local disasters, human errors and ransomware attacks.
In terms of ransomware preventionCubbit allows you to create immutable backups: in this way it is possible to satisfy all compliance requirements, certain that nothing and no one can modify or delete the data stored on the cloud storage platform.
The durability of the data certified at 99.999999999% (eleven digits 9) it reflects the robustness and reliability of the geo-distributed cloud storage system. Even when one or more nodes of the system have problems, user data always remains intact and available. And this is precisely thanks to replies automatically managed by the Cubbit platform.
ICOS-Cubbit: an agreement resulting from the mission and characteristics of the two companies
Federico MariniManaging Director of ICOS, commented on the start of the partnership with Cubbit, underlining how the technological proposal of geo-distributed cloud storage represents the perfect synthesis of the two souls of ICOS: the historical one, which sees the company as a leader in storage solutions, and the most recent one, which looks at a decisive commitment in the cybersecurity.
On the other hand, Alessandro Cillarioco-CEO and co-founder of Cubbit, highlights the role of ICOS – a key company in distribution of storage solutions and cybersecurity -. The agreement represents a further step forward to accelerate the adoption of Cubbit technology in Europe and Europe.
“Companies are increasingly concerned about hacker threats and unexpected events that can put their data at risk. At the same time, data sovereignty is now at the center of everyone’s attention, also given the increasingly stringent ISO and GDPR regulations. Together with ICOS we give Europen retailers and MSPs the opportunity to increase their margins by offering a one-of-a-kind service“, commented Cillario.