EDITOR’S QUESTION
regulatory boxes in terms of data storage
and business continuity services.
Some of the cost factors that need to be
considered when it comes to a multi-
cloud strategy are the monthly costs of
connectivity and bandwidth, compute,
storage, shared services, compliance tests
and very important, ingress and egress
costs (the cost of getting data into the
cloud provider or getting that data out).
Some cloud providers have partnered with
telcos to reduce or eliminate ingress and
egress costs which is a major draw card,
thus making it much easier to get into
or out of cloud-based services. This also
reduces vendor lock-in.
TRENT ODGERS, CLOUD AND
HOSTING MANAGER FOR
SOUTHERN AFRICA AT VEEAM
Veeam enables cloud service providers
to deliver Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS)
and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service
(DRaaS) with lower operational
overheads and improved SLAs. Most
businesses start with BaaS as it has the
least impact on the ecosystem and can
provide fantastic benefits.
The operational overhead and cost of
tape, along with the slow RTOs have made
it easier to justify BaaS. This along with
seeding fast tracks the onboarding process
even further.
Companies should put in place an action
plan to ensure they are ready for this new
cloud dynamic. ◊
he ways businesses
leverage cloud to
manage and maximise
the value of their data
continue to evolve.
Following the launch
of Microsoft Azure and Huawei Cloud in
South Africa recently and with Amazon
Web Services (AWS) set to open new data
centres in the first half of 2020, the years
when adopting cloud-based solutions felt
like the first step into some brave new
world are well and truly behind us. data from its fastest growing business unit
in Google Cloud for scalability at relatively
low expense but use AWS for its R&D
databases to enjoy the benefits of AI and
voice-assisted search.
However, this is ushering in a new era
of multi-cloud deployment, which is a
nod towards the fact that businesses are
increasingly using different clouds for
different purposes at different times. For
example, a business may wish to store In South Africa, many companies are
looking at either reducing or eliminating
tape backups from their environment.
This migration will not only improve the
customer experience, thanks to the better
availability of data, but also ticks the
T
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Yet, multi-cloud is not a silver bullet
that can fix all availability challenges.
Things like data storage, control, backup,
continuity, costs and complexity of
implementation need to be considered,
especially given how the service offerings
from cloud providers differ.
IN SOUTH
AFRICA, MANY
COMPANIES
ARE LOOKING
AT EITHER
REDUCING OR
ELIMINATING
TAPE BACKUPS
FROM THEIR
ENVIRONMENT.
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