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Aftek enters into a strategic tie-up with BDT AG

Aftek Ltd. has entered into a strategic tie up with BDT AG, of Germany. Under the terms of the tie up, Aftek’s 100 percent German subsidiary Arexera, will license its state-of-the-art search technology for BDT’s new data storage device the Gingcom Appliance.

Gingcom is an IT solution, which enables organisations to find, restore and use every document created or received through e-mail, even after years. It archives information on PCs, notebooks, servers including user data and profiles.

The Gingcom appliance has been developed for an organisation having 50 to 500 workers. It was conceived in three years by a 47 member developer team.

For each appliance sold by BDT, Aftek will be entitled for a royalty payment of about 250 Euros. BDT has targeted sales of between 50,000 to 70,000 Gingcom appliances through its own network as well as its OEM partners, during a full year of operation. The Gingcom Appliance was launched the CeBIT 2007 held recently in Hanover.

“Aftek is one of the few IT companies in India to aggressively pursue IP not just rely upon the traditional IT services model. This deal, which was won against intense competition from major suppliers, has only underscored to the soundness of this strategy,” said Ranjit Dhuru, Chairman and Managing Director of Aftek Ltd.

The German manufacturer has developed a method of single instancing with full text-indexing. In the entire Gingcom network, during storage, a key is provided to every file. If an identical file is found, then from the new dataset Gingcom stores only the meta-data, acting as a reference to the storage location and the user. This method creates space for as much as five times the data and reduces the data load on the network.