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which means it can integrate with numerous
storage technologies, allowing greater
flexibility and choice for customers. This
ensures that integration into the IT systems
and business operations of ContinuitySA
customers happen as smoothly as possible.
“Our clients have been very satisfied with
Veeam’s hyper-availability offering; it
has proven to be consistently effective in
scheduled tests and real-world recoveries,”
said van Rensburg.
“From data corruptions, system failures,
accidental deletions and malicious
ransomware attacks – we have been
consistently successful in recovering our
clients when they have experienced outages.”
According to van Rensburg, Veeam provides
visibility of operations, quicker recovery
times, multiple recovery points and better
flexibility of protected solutions irrespective
of the customer industry or company size.
Without these elements, several of its
customers would have had to close
operations as they would have been unable
to recover from the data loss experienced.
“The positive impact extends to time-savings
as well,” he said.
“We have had a client migrate from a backup
configuration that took longer than 12 hours
to perform daily backups and 72 hours for
weekly ones to a Veeam environment that
reduced the time to less than 75 minutes
and 10 hours respectively.”
From a business perspective, ContinuitySA
customers can deliver on their strategic
mandates while Veeam manages their
replication and data availability needs.
Veeam is an enabler for effective business
growth by allowing the internal resources of
companies to be repurposed for innovative
product development and services delivery.
Veeam has also assisted ContinuitySA
to reallocate customer resources using a
dedicated team of professionals that provide
deep and specialised recovery expertise to
its clients. This has enabled ContinuitySA to
expand on its value proposition and establish
new lines of service. Ultimately, this is
focused on delivering even more measurable
business benefits to its customers that
positively impact operations.
“Furthermore, Veeam provides good value on
its licensing price point that sees us making
it available to our clients at market-related
rates. However, the most important part of
the technology has been its applicability and
success to so many different environments
across industry sectors,” said van Rensburg.
This is especially important given how data
compliance is evolving. The likes of the
Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)
in South Africa and General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union
mean companies must be able to ensure that
the safety of data takes strategic priority.
“It is very difficult for one technology to
cover everything from a data compliance
perspective,” said van Rensburg. Veeam is
enabling us to further assist our clients to
become compliant and use the necessary
features and audit processes to
enable alignment to the regulatory
[data] framework.”
Additionally, ContinuitySA has recently
started using Veeam Agents and its
number of clients and protected servers are
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US MAKING IT AVAILABLE TO OUR
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increasing continuously. “Modern business
requires a new level of data uptime, which
we refer to as ‘hyper-availability’,” said Kate
Mollett, Regional Manager for Africa South
at Veeam.
“As data continues to sprawl and new
compliance requirements add complexity,
downtime and unplanned outages become
even greater an issue for IT teams to
manage. By giving an onsite IT team peace
of mind around data protection and data
management with the strength of our
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