Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 30 | Page 69

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// t TECH cht TALK lk Driaan Odendaal, Lead: Arcserve Southern Africa, Technical • Encryption: IT teams can transfer data with AES-128, AES-256 or custom-level encryption between local and remote locations without the need for a VPN “Arcserve RHA was developed to provide organisations with true, continuous application and system availability,” said Oussama El-Hilali, CTO at Arcserve. system redundancy and availability needs in the best possible way.” System and application availability • Full System High Availability for Windows and Linux: Arcserve RHA allows IT teams to maintain up-to-date replicas of mission-critical systems; Windows systems to XenServer, VMware, Hyper-V, Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure; Linux systems to VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure www.intelligentcio.com • Application high availability: Users can also keep applications available and accessible through real-time replication on physical servers, VMware, Hyper-V, Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure • Application-aware replication: Teams can manage the replication of data for Exchange, SQL, IIS, SharePoint, Oracle, Hyper-V and custom applications in one program • Data rewind: Arcserve RHA also offers the ability to rollback applications to a point in time before a system crash, data corruption, or ransomware event “There are vendors in the business continuity space that claim to offer high availability, but the technology just isn’t there. What they’re doing is providing snapshot-based backups, or replication with short RPOs. And many only support virtual machines so you’re stuck if you have critical physical on-premises systems that need to remain operational. Arcserve RHA, on the other hand, delivers availability for on-premises, remote, and cloud systems and applications; which are the foundation of most IT infrastructures.” Driaan Odendaal, Lead: Arcserve Southern Africa, Technical, notes this is an important announcement for the SA market. “Local businesses face many challenges in terms of downtime so the announcement of this latest version of Arcserve RHA is good news for all organisations in our market with a vision to reduce both the risk and the inevitable negative impact of business continuity disruption,” he said. n INTELLIGENTCIO 69