Midrand: CSSI is the only data recovery entity in South Africa who has developed, in conjunction with hard drive manufacturers, its own data recovery systems and software. In so doing, CSSI has won numerous accolades, including the Minister's Award for scientific and technological breakthrough, and today it announces its DR services free.
According to CSSI, its data recovery services will be free of charge to all MyData customers who use or sign-up for CipherArchive, starting at R80 per month, and who are South African citizens or registered businesses.
The CipherArchive software is an online electronic backup software package that allows users and businesses to encrypt, compress and transmit their data securely to South Africa's only category-5 data centre, called CipherVault.
CipherArchive makes use of delta blocking, which means that even large files of gigabytes in size can be transferred rapidly as only changed blocks are transmitted. A standard user can complete a full backup in an average of about four to six minutes per day.
CSSI has made the software available for download with full functionality free for 14 days. CipherArchive is easy to use, friendly and extensively used in the market for over three years. It is a powerful backup agent that allows for bare metal restore and snapshotting functionality in its Pro version. The software is available in CipherArchive “Pro” for businesses and corporates and in CipherArchive “Lite” for private, desktop and mobile users.
CSSI has stated that should any South African company or South African citizen who is registered and is an active user of CipherArchive and should they experience a computer failure from any data loss event or hard drive crash, CSSI will undertake to recover the data at no charge even if the user has not recently backed up their data.
It is a known fact that data recovery costs can range from a couple of thousand rands and escalate into the tens of thousands, plus weeks of delay and loss of productivity. Utilising CipherArchive is a cheap, very powerful and effective tool to safeguard one's private and organisational data, and an innovative offering from one of South Africa's most entrepreneurial businesses.
In the light of the new regulations, consumer protection, Kings III and directorship responsibility in the legislature coming into law, this offering is the most innovative, secure and cost-effective method available to protect data, to backup and archive records. It complies with the latest regulations and requirements in South Africa and international protocol standards.
As a significant value-add to the South African consumer and business owner, CSSI will provide data recovery support and recovery engineers, its main core offering, at no charge should any scenario unfold that could result in data loss.
For further information or to sign up now, e-mail cipherarchive@cssi.co.za or call CSSI on 0861 (MY DATA) 69 3282.
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Computer Storage Services (CSSI) and subsidiary CipherWave is listed as SA's top performing companies that is a leading data storage specialist providing a host of quality products and data storage services from data storage supply, hard drives, backup systems, data migration to data recovery, forensics and data archival services. The head office is located in Midrand with office locations in Cape Town, Durban, and a Serbia location catering for European markets. CSSI has advanced data recovery labs and a research and development team focused on DR, software and storage development with technology research centres. CSSI is home to the Minister's Award for Technological Excellence and a host of accolades throughout its 11-year history from start-up. CSSI has a distribution division for disk-based storage arrays, data archival and storage components and accessories. CipherVault is the electronic and physical data centre facility housing the first category 5 rated biometric data vault in Africa with virtual hosting, server collocation and ISP hosting facilities.
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