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DRAAS gains momentum in SA

Kgaogelo Letsebe
By Kgaogelo Letsebe, Portals journalist
Johannesburg, 26 Jul 2017
Iniel Dreyer, Gabsten Technology MD.
Iniel Dreyer, Gabsten Technology MD.

Gabsten Technologies, the local data management consulting company, has introduced a backup and disaster recovery managed service particularly aimed at the SME market.

Iniel Dreyer, the company's MD, says the country's current economic climate means that companies, particularly SMEs, are unable to make any significant long-term investments which are required for the roll out of new disaster recovery technology. "This managed service offers clients, usually small-to-medium enterprises, the opportunity to make use of a hosted software model with internationally-recognised software. It is a fully managed service to look after all the data that the client wants to protect."

According to the company, the managed solution has two service formats for businesses to choose from, "The first, lower-cost option envisages office hours' support from Monday to Friday, 8am-5pm, with backups that run in the evening. The second is a 24/7 model which means that if disaster strikes at whatever time, it will be covered and we'll be there to offer support, on behalf of the reseller," explained Dreyer.

This is not the first of its kind in the industry where disaster recovery as a service (DRAAS) is gaining momentum.

Disaster recovery as a service is defined as the replication and hosting of physical or virtual servers by a third party to provide failover in the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe.

Gartner estimates the DRAAS market will nearly triple to a revenue point of $3.4 billion by 2019.

ContinuitySA recently enhanced its DRAAS offering by including tailored packages for IBM pSeries and iSeries.

ContinuitySA Head of Availability Services Sasha Malic explains: "Disaster recovery as a service is increasingly popular because it allows companies to access genuine disaster recovery capabilities that actually work without the trouble and expense of setting up and managing their own disaster recovery site. What are doing now is making this capability available specifically for a particular technology type widely used - and relied on - in the enterprise computing world."

Similarly, neutral cloud provider, Routed, last month partnered with Veeam Software to offer local clients cloud services that support their backup and recovery environments.

Speaking at the time of the release, Andrew Cruise, MD of Routed, said the company will focus on Veaam's Cloud Connect solution, a fully-integrated way to get data off site. "We will be offering Cloud Connect Backup, an offsite copy of local backups and Cloud Connect Replication, a disaster recovery solution."

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