Veritas NetBackup available in IBM Marketplace
Veritas Technologies has announced that its flagship product, Veritas NetBackup, is now available in the IBM Marketplace, providing access to data backup and protection for IBM Cloud and Veritas customers. Veritas' industry-leading backup and recovery solutions help...
AI drives paradigm shift in the storage environment
Tapes, removable disks, hard disks and Solid State Drives (SSDs), also known as flash storage -there have been many technological advancements and this is continuing to evolve. Eran Brown, chief technology officer for Infinidat, EMEA As artificial intelligence (AI)...
The importance of data backup
Data may have become the new oil, but many consistently fail to protect such a valuable resource, writes David McMurdo, regional director: South Africa at Veritas Technologies. Over a thousand mobile phones, laptops and hard drives are lost or stolen each day. Stored...
World Backup Day – a reminder to liberate your backup
World Backup Day on Sunday 31 March brought into sharp focus the importance of regularly backing up data - but there is more to this aspect of data management that businesses can ill-afford to neglect. This is according to global data management SaaS specialist...
Backing up the always-on enterprise
The concept of backups is debatable for businesses with a clear vision and strategy. Some executives will tell you that having a plan B means that plan A will never work. Kate Mollett, regional manager for Africa at Veeam There is one type of backup option which is...
Archiving in an age of rampant cyber threats
As the world celebrates World Backup Day on 31 March, it's worth taking stock of archiving and its growing importance in an age of exponential data and rising threats from cybercriminals. By Brian Pinnock, cybersecurity expert at Mimecast The World Economic Forum...
Demand zero downtime from your data storage provider
Today, downtime means lost productivity, lost income and potentially lost customers. By Hayden Sadler, country manager for South Africa at Infinidat According to an Information Technology Intelligence Corp. (ITIC) survey, 98% of respondents say that a single hour of...
Security company increases uptime with Stormagic SvSAN
Bloemsec, a security services provider based in Bloemfontein, Free State, recently partnered with Drive Control Corporation (DCC) and First Technology Central for the deployment of StorMagic's hyperconverged virtual SAN solution, SvSAN, to eliminate single points of...
Business benefits of consolidating backup and recovery
Many organisations today have a number of individual tools from different vendors to backup, recover and archive their data, writes Mike Rees, territory account manager for South Africa at Commvault. This is challenging in a world where data is increasing...
Fujitsu introduces flexible licensing for Eternus CS200c
Fujitsu introduces new software licensing options for its all-in-one backup solution Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS CS200c powered by Commvault. The new options are designed to make it easier for customers to benefit from an integrated backup appliance and ensure maximum...
Veeam gets backup certification for SAP HANA
Veeam Software has announced Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA, a SAP Certified Integration for SAP HANA, as a part of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4. W. ith this latest release, Veeam provides an SAP-certified backup and recovery solution, allowing enterprise...
Customers kudos for Infinidat disk arrays
Infinidat has been recognised as a February 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for General-Purpose Disk Arrays, based on reviews and ratings from end-users. In addition to being named a Customers' Choice by customers, INFINIDAT was also recently named by...