The experience, professionalism and processing capacity of two of the country`s major disaster recovery and business continuity planning organisations have been brought together in terms of a powerful new marketing alliance.
Announcing the signing this week of a joint marketing agreement between First Recovery and Siltek subsidiary Shadow Solutions, First Recovery CEO Francois Muscat says the alliance provides one of the most comprehensive turnkey disaster recovery and business continuity solutions in the market.
"The agreement combines the specialist product support and processing capacity of First Recovery with the professional consultancy services of Shadow. While both companies will continue to operate independently, the agreement enables us to offer unrivalled turnkey solutions to a greatly expanded market and all customers," he says.
"With a market share in the DR and BCP consultancy and professional services field that is widely estimated by independent industry analysts at more than 70 percent, Shadow Solutions is an ideal partner," he says.
Alan Heath, a director of Shadow Solutions, says the new marketing alliance provides the Siltek software and services division with an infrastructure, including processing power, skills and resources, that are almost unsurpassed in the southern hemisphere.
"First Recovery has a track record and a pedigree in DR that meets world standards. As enterprises increasingly move towards outsourcing their business recovery needs, the alliance offers a single-source, cost-effective solution," says Heath.
First Recovery, a subsidiary of FNB which was formed almost 10 years ago to address the corporate mainframe environment, has recently been repositioned to focus on offering a broader range of platforms, products and services in the DR and BCP arenas.
Offering more than 800 MIPS of CMOS-based open systems processing power in the mainframe environment, First Recovery also boasts high-end processing power and capacity on HP 9000, Sun Ultra 3000, IBM AS/400 and RS/6000, DEC Alpha and Compaq and IBM Netfinity Intel-based servers. These platforms are supported by more than 2 terrabytes of DASD storage as well as operating systems that include mainframe, UNIX and Windows NT.
Muscat and Heath both confirm that the alliance will enable the rapid development and deployment of comprehensive solutions for customers across all industry sectors.
"While disaster recovery remains a highly specialised discipline historically associated with centralised mainframes, explosive growth in network computing means that enterprises are faced with complex challenges that can only be addressed through specialised business continuity planning," says Heath.
The companies will cooperate on offering comprehensive consultancy and turnkey management of services that extend to office recovery, call centre recovery, dealer room recovery and mobile solutions.
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