It`s every South African CEO`s worst nightmare: an armed gang breaks into your premises, holds up the security staff and makes off with tens of thousands of rand worth of high-tech equipment - including your backup tapes. Unfortunately this scenario is not fictitious: it is exactly what happened to a JSE-listed group earlier this year. Although not guarding against armed robbery, offsite, online backup solutions are being seen as an essential part of every company`s disaster recovery plans. And South Africa integrators are taking note and adding Attix5`s online backup solutions to their services at a rapid rate.
Through the company`s partner programme, technology resellers, service providers and integrators can offer online backup as part of their overall service to customers. Russell Roy, director at Johannesburg-based Internet specialist Technology Concepts says the Attix5 Backup Professional solution has been a very successful offering to his clients.
"Our corporate customers are obviously extremely concerned about data loss," he says. "Most have backup tapes, but the systems are rarely automated and often the tapes don`t work. In some cases, we`ve seen so-called automated systems where someone has to physically change the media for it to work. And if your tapes are lost, stolen or destroyed, your backup system is rendered useless. Attix5`s solution gives us a means of automating customers` backup procedures entirely, as well as providing a recovery speed not available from a tape infrastructure, freeing them from worry and giving them an insurance policy for their data."
Technology Concepts started off providing companies leased line Internet connectivity but with the difference of taking on the responsibility of providing a complete end-to-end working solution rather than just a connection. The corporate culture within the company stems from this philosophy of ensuring that technology was adding real value to the customer. It has recently completed an entire backup implementation of a large JSE-listed group. Roy says Technology Concepts will also be targeting the small-to-medium sized corporate as well.
"A company with 20 or more seats in its IT infrastructure can easily afford the Attix5 solution for a small monthly fee, especially when you consider the alternative - data recovery - which can start at over three thousand rand per drive."
Attix5 Backup Professional is a secure, automated offsite backup system for data stored on company servers. It relieves overburdened or non-existent IT staff from the chore of tape backup and manual offsite storage and replaces this with a secure, reliable, offsite solution that protects data. The entire Attix5 product suite is designed to minimize the impact on your Internet link , which it does by only transferring data which has changed since the previous backup.
As well as being a connectivity, consulting and Web development company, Technology Concepts has also developed a bandwidth Management device to prioritise important traffic. The company prides itself in understanding a customers business requirements and being able to offer cost effective technology solutions. "We want to be your IT department," says Roy. "And Attix5 Backup Professional is an excellent means of automating the essential process of backing up."
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