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...
Huawei shows enterprise solutions at MWC
At MWC 2019, to be held in Barcelona from 25 to 19 February, Huawei Enterprise Business Group will have an entire area dedicated to government and enterprise customers for the first time. It will also be introducing its latest AI applications in the fields of smart...
Tighter data security regulations drive intelligent storage strategies
Data protection is becoming a priority, as governments roll out new data security regulations with eye-watering penalties for non-compliance, some of them up to 4% of annual turnover. By Hayden Sadler, country manager at Infinidat, South Africa These regulations,...
Data availability in a digital world
With several multinational data centres set to arrive in South Africa over the coming 18 months, businesses and consumers alike are starting to view the cloud and the availability of data differently. By Kate Mollett, regional manager for Africa South at Veeam The...
Veritas NetBackup certified for protecting Docker containers
Veritas Technologies has announced that NetBackup 8.1.2 has received certification for protecting Docker container-based workloads. Veritas' customers will be able to protect their containerised data and other legacy or modern workloads like SAP Hana, Hadoop or...
In 2019, digital leaders will consolidate, automate backups
Ask clients a few years ago what concerned them most about data backups and it was universally about volumes. The amount of data they had to manage seemed insurmountable. I could see that for myself: in 1999 some of my enterprise customers were managing a terabyte of...