ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY
Arcserve and Sophos
alliance offers South African
businesses comprehensive
data security
From left: Michael van Lier (District Manager:
Southern Africa at HP), Elmari Keyser (End User
Computing Product Manager at Datacentrix), Zama
Mthetwa (Business Partner Manager at HP), James
Scott (General Manager End User Computing at
Datacentrix) and Elisabeth Moreno (Vice President
and Managing Director at HP)
providing business solutions to its clients.
Datacentrix places great emphasis on the
MPS offering, in particular seeing excellent
traction within the Western Cape.”
Jamie Scott, General Manager: End User
Computing at Datacentrix, also received the
distinction of ‘Executive of the Year 2019’.
According to van Lier, Scott was voted to
win by the local HP channel and enterprise
teams. “The consensus was that Jamie
embodied commitment to execution, which
emanates from the executive level down
within the company.”
Keyser maintains that the four awards
received by Datacentrix highlight its
underlying commitment to HP as a brand.
“The two companies work very closely, as an
extension of one another, and this type of
recognition is testament to the fact that we
have maintained HP’s stringent standards,
and delivered a best-in-class service,” she said.
Van Lier added that Datacentrix and HP
have a level of partnership not often found.
“We essentially have an integrated
approach and address market challenges
jointly,” he explained. “The 2019 awards
received by Datacentrix reinforce this
concept, as a true partnership enables
businesses to work together to develop
results, through both good and bad times.
Our partnership has proven that we are still
able to grow together, even under today’s
more difficult economic circumstances.”
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rcserve Southern Africa has
revealed that the global alliance
between Arcserve, LLC, an
experienced data protection provider, and
Sophos, a leader in network and endpoint
security, holds great significance for the
South African market.
“Through this collaboration,
organisations can now employ the only
market solution that integrates anti-
ransomware and other threat prevention
technologies, such as Deep Learning AI
for both known and unknown malware,
and award-winning Disaster Recovery and
high availability capabilities for prevention
against data loss,” said Byron Horn-Botha,
Lead: Arcserve Southern Africa Channel
and Partnerships. “Together, the new
solution delivers a multi-layered approach
to prevent, protect and immunise backup
data from cyberattacks.”
A report issued by Cybersecurity
Ventures predicts the global cost of
ransomware will reach US$6 trillion by
2021, with an attack on businesses every
14 seconds by the end of this year.
“With cybercriminals continuously
taking advantage of enterprises to turn
profits, this alliance will provide businesses
with a two-pronged approach to cyber-
readiness and IT resilience,” added Horn-
Botha. “By combining both cybersecurity
and data protection capabilities into a
single offering, companies will have a
comprehensive solution that fully covers all
their infrastructure needs.”
The joint solution will be delivered
via Arcserve’s award-winning Appliance
Series, the only turnkey self-contained
appliances for Disaster Recovery and
application availability. Powered by
Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP),
the Arcserve Appliance Series combines
flash-accelerated deduplicated storage,
robust server processing and high-
speed networking with highly redundant
hardware and cloud services.
“Increasingly, cybercriminals are
targeting backup systems as a way to
increase the odds that compromised
businesses will make a ransom payment,”
said Francois Depayras, Sophos’ Vice
President of OEM Sales and Alliances.
“Having dedicated protection from both
malware and the latest exploits ensures
the backup data will stand strong against
the most advanced threats. Sophos
Intercept X for Server provides anti-
ransomware, anti-exploit and Deep
Learning technology to provide the highest
level of protection. This makes the Arcserve
Appliance the most secure solution
available in the market.”
Oussama El-Hilali, CTO for Arcserve
says that too many organisations are
being forced to have the ‘how do we pay
ransom’ conversation. “We saw a market
gap that needed to be filled, and Sophos
was the natural fit,” he said. “We know data
protection and they know cybersecurity.
As threats become more difficult to
combat, this alliance is transformative in
the industry, taking our cyber protection to
the next level and providing partners with
the opportunity to educate customers on
the unique benefits of an integrated, two-
pronged defence against cybercrime.”
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