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Internet Solutions adds DRAAS to its SkyLight platform

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 12 Apr 2018
Internet Solutions adds DRAAS service to the SkyLight platform.
Internet Solutions adds DRAAS service to the SkyLight platform.

South African telecoms service provider Internet Solutions has added disaster recovery as a service (DRAAS) to its SkyLight platform.

DRAAS was initially brought into the market via ContinuitySA - an Internet Solutions' subsidiary and well-known provider of business continuity and business resilience solutions.

According to Graeme O'Driscoll, executive head of software engineering at Internet Solutions, the service will offer better recovery time objectives as well as faster recovery point objectives.

Recovery time objectives (RTO) are measured by the time it takes to restore systems while recovery point objectives (RPO) is the age of files that must be recovered from backup storage for normal operations to resume.

"As cloud-hosted business systems are increasingly the norm, the difference between minutes and days in the event of catastrophic system failure is the difference between a company surviving a disaster, or not.

"This is substantially less than industry-standard RTO and RPO of days and hours. For an online-only retailer, the longer their Web sites are down, the more revenue they lose. While some businesses can survive losing a day or two's worth of data, online retailers and financial institutions for example, cannot," he explains.

"We're justifiably proud of the standards that we can now offer to clients as part of a flexible cloud solution that puts DRAAS in reach of smaller companies that are as vulnerable to disasters as any large enterprise."

SkyLight is a cloud management platform that provides on-demand access to different local and global cloud service platforms from Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Internet Solutions Cloud and Dimension Data Cloud. It also gives companies options for building a virtual environment that meets and responds to their business demands.

"With DRAAS added to the platform, companies with on-demand access to public or private cloud services from the SkyLight mega-cloud has the means to securely restore their data in just minutes," adds O'Driscoll.

He explains that the new offering is can be offered as a completely self-managed service via the platform, or clients can opt to retain Internet Solutions to manage the service on their behalf.

"Clients may elect to manage some aspects of disaster recovery internally, while Internet Solutions' DRAAS experts administer the rest. The offering includes an advisory service to help companies evaluate their data requirements and dependencies, map a disaster recovery strategy, and then implement and test the resulting DRAAS plan. We have both silver and gold service package plans."

According to Gartner research, the DRAAS market is estimated to triple to a revenue point of $3.4 billion by 2019.

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