What's hot in backup and DR? We ask Data#3

What backup and disaster solutions do you deploy?

Our technology consumption model provides a unique method for creating choices for customers. By applying it across our solutions, customers can explore the offerings available to them. This allows customers to buy a product, expertise, solution or outcome delivered on or off-premise. 

When did your company first get involved in backup and disaster recovery?

Disaster recovery has been a fundamental component of the solutions we bring to market for more than 20 years. Today, we provide our customers with industry-leading disaster recovery solutions, rapid supply of replacement equipment, access to consulting services to develop disaster recovery strategies and business continuity testing.

What are your backup and DR credentials?

We hold a number of specialist certifications across our disaster recovery and backup portfolio. While certifications are an important component of our strategy, we are persistently focused on hiring the best people to ensure customer success.

Who are your main distributors for backup and DR?

Ingram Micro and Dicker Data are just two of our preferred distributors.

Have you heard about any cool backup and DR tech recently?

We are seeing significant advancements in cloud- and software-based disaster recovery that is driving innovation and cost saving for customers. Historically, solutions relied heavily on customers’ deep understanding of their applications and platforms. Today, this is being simplified into predefined hardware with software and cloud options providing automated protection based on SLAs.

Can you tell us about a recent backup and DR project?

Our team recently completed a large backup remediation and technology refresh project for a large government organisation. Our customised solution, built on a foundation of integrated backup appliances, removed complexity, simplified management and provided a scalable solution optimised for their highly distributed environment.

What is driving customers’ backup and DR projects?

There are two consistent drivers for disaster recovery: our customers’ desire to improve the availability and provision of the services they deliver; and to reduce their risk profiles. We are now seeing customers taking advantage of cloud services to reduce complexity and infrastructure and to implement disaster recovery. 

Backup is… ?

Backup is a fundamental component of acomprehensive data protection strategy, which must also include disaster recovery, e-discovery and archive.