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Cartika Adopts Ksplice Uptrack “Rebootless” Technology as Value Added Service for ALL Cartika Linux Hosting Customers

New capability gives customers unprecedented security and availability, with rebootless and automatic Linux kernel updates, at no extra charge.  How does your provider protect you from root level Operating System exploits? Cartika servers, powered by KSplice, are automatically patched and updated against all new exploits – all without a reboot.

Toronto, Canada and Dallas, Texas, MONTH 09, 2010 — Cartika Inc, a leading provider of Web hosting services, announced it has adopted Ksplice Uptrack’s “rebootless” and automated Linux update technology, bringing its customers a new class of best-of-breed dedicated and virtual server offerings.

Cartika Internal Servers Upgraded over the last 2 nights

So, in preparing for our next round of Linux updates for all of our customer facing servers – we needed a production guinea pig to test on. Sure, we have gone through all of our required testing in devel environments. Everyone assured me things were good to go. So, here comes the litmus test – ok team – lets schedule the updates with our clients, announce all of the new fancy toys we will be giving them, and lets get going. This is when, as a business owner, you learn the true nature of the team you have accumulated. After years and years of going through this process, you quickly learn to spot confidence, or lack there of – in an initiative you push out. After getting a very strong sense that the team was nervous with proceeding, I asked what was wrong? The answers I got back, made it quite clear that everyone was confident – the required testing was done, but, there was an underlying sense of concern.