INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Datacentrix unveils Backup-
as-a-Service offering
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IT PROVIDES LOCAL
COMPANIES OF
ALL SIZES WITH
THE LATEST IN
DATA BACKUP
AND PROTECTION
TECHNOLOGY.
D
atacentrix, a provider of high
performing and secure ICT solutions,
has launched a new Backup and
Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS)
offering, providing affordable off-site cloud
backups with the highest level of data
protection and redundancy.
This innovative offering is aimed at assisting
local organisations with the management
of unprecedented volumes of data, while
safeguarding it from malicious attacks.
The new solution operates on the 3–2–1–0
premise: three copies of data stored in two
different media repositories, with one off-
site backup copy and zero waiting time to
restart operations.
“What is key here is that businesses could
potentially have six copies of their data;
they are able to backup locally onsite while
Datacentrix replicates the data to its cloud
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Marius Redelinghuys,
Solution Architect at
Datacentrix
systems, with the option of additional
replication to a ‘deep storage’ vault at
Datacentrix (capable of five, seven and 10
year retrieval), as well as to traditional tape,”
said Marius Redelinghuys, Solution Architect
at Datacentrix. “The system is equally divided between
them, delivering backup, recovery and
replication availability for all workloads, as
well as physical and cloud-based resources.
This allows customers to eliminate legacy
backup solutions forever.
With the ability to start backing up offsite
in less than two minutes, both the cloud
BaaS and hosted BaaS options are highly
available, flexible, allow for end-to-end data
encryption and disaster recovery and provide
secure offsite backups. “More importantly, it provides local
companies of all sizes with the latest in data
backup and protection technology, without
taking away the control of their most
important asset, their data.”
“The new offering utilises the company’s
Midrand and Samrand data centres,
featuring redundant data links between the
two facilities with sub millisecond latencies,”
added Redelinghuys.
“Datacentrix’s network is connected using
dual path fibre cables with wireless failover
as backup, between our two data centres.
Dedicated front-end firewalls allow
customers to connect securely and directly
to the data centres via their own line or the
Internet using a protected login. Data is
fully encrypted at each stage in the process,
from the processing point at the customer
to the backend, including tape. “All customer
data remains within South Africa’s borders,
and offers flexible, usage-based payment
options,” said Redelinghuys. n
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