First Recovery and Compaq have formed a strategic partnership and business alliance to provide disaster recovery and business continuity solutions to Compaq`s enterprise customers in sub-Saharan Africa.
"The alliance brings together South Africa`s leading business recovery specialists and a powerful IT company into a single-point source of business recovery expertise," says Francois Muscat, CEO of First Recovery.
Under the partnership, Compaq will add business recovery to its service offerings. These solutions will cover Compaq Intel and Alpha servers as well as the full range of medium to midrange products supported by Compaq.
"Increasingly our enterprise customers are approaching us to provide recovery services," says Compaq business development manager, Brian Henry. "This is because the critical components of the modern 7 x 24 business have become the networks and the servers rather than the mainframe of old."
"With the First Recovery alliance we have married ourselves with a disaster recovery service provider with a proven track record, leading edge technology and multi-vendor capabilities. In addition, First Recovery is well able to keep up with customer capacity requirements."
First Recovery was established in 1991 to provide disaster recovery and business continuity services to FNB and major corporate clients. Focusing initially on the mainframe market, it subsequently expanded into the AS/400 market and now into a multi-vendor environment, including Compaq, IBM, HP and Sun.
The partnership is one of a number of alliances that First Recovery is aggressively forging as it expands its business continuity services to encompass the complete enterprise.
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