Dimension Data Rolls Out Cloud Backup to Asia, Europe, Middle East

Dimension Data plc announced the availability of cloud backup across its Managed Cloud Platform (MCP) locations.

Cloud backup is an optional backup and restore service available as an add-on to the company’s enterprise public and private Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS) offerings. With cloud backup, organisations are able to backup their files, applications and system state locally or to geographically separate MCP locations to ensure BC and protection for enterprise workloads.

The company offers three classes of cloud backup service that address the needs for simple file and folder backup as well as full application, system and file backup and restore:

• Cloud Backup Essentials – file and folder backup and restore

• Cloud Backup Advanced – file, folder, and system state backup and restore

• Cloud Backup Enterprise – file, folder, system state, and application backup and restore

With cloud backup, organisations can backup entire applications in a self-service environment. In a typical scenario, IT staff may spend time restoring individual files and folders or face a lengthy support ticket process to retrieve data. By offering cloud backup as self-service, enterprises gain more control over their own data and applications hosted in the cloud.

Gerard Florian, director of product management, Dimension Data’s cloud business unit said: “IT departments focus significant resources on managing the backup of critical data. Self-service, full application backup will assist our clients to automate and streamline backup and restore activities while reducing the burden on IT staff to manage the process.“

Clients can set up cloud backup services by using the self-service CloudControl web user interface or API. Backup options may be selected at any point before or after spinning up a cloud server and can be adjusted as needed. In addition to the US and Australia, where the service is already available, deployment of cloud backup in Asia, Europe and the Middle East and Africa has already begun and the service will be operationally ready in those countries in FYQ3 and FYQ4.

Pricing starts at $10 per cloud server plus $0.10/GB of storage per month.