Several local service providers are now offering Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition.
The new service providers - including CipherWave, Afrihost, Vox Telecom, Cybersmart, Triple 4 Consulting and Server Alliance - will provide off-site backups of virtualised IT environments.
"Veeam Backup & Replication is a great tool for creating safe, tested backups of a virtualised server environment," explains Ian Faller, operations manager at networking and hosted services provider CipherWave.
"But there is always a need to keep off-site backups, and our clients who host their own servers love the idea that they no longer have to store a local backup to tape, then pay someone to take it away and store it. It can all be done in the cloud."
After creating a 'seed load' full backup, CipherWave allows incremental backups on a schedule determined by the client. "Organisations that aren't changing huge amounts of data every day can happily use their quiet time overnight to update their offsite backups," says Faller. "More transaction-heavy environments like banks or retailers prefer to use a high-speed fibre link to create backups throughout the day."
Globally, Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition is available through Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Rackspace, and HP cloud. According to Jessica van Wyk, channel manager at Veeam SA, further deals with local providers are currently being finalised.
"The Cloud Edition of Veeam Backup & Replication has an open API and we are actively inviting local companies to plug in and become part of the ecosystem," she says.
Off-site backups are essential for everyone, for compliance reasons as well as data security, adds Faller.
"If a client's building burns down overnight, we can restore their backups into our hosted virtual environment and have them up and running from our business continuity centre in hours. And it's as easy as ticking a couple of boxes. This is fulfilling a real need."
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