DR Solutions by Syrex in South Africa

Syrex (Pty) Ltd announced the availability of a set of automated, monitored, outsourced and off-site DR solutions.

“Gone are the days of manual backup on tapes and external HDDs,” commented Ralph Berndt, Syrex. “We can now deliver highly effective virtual server infrastructure in our data centres, as well as co-location architecture with full virtual snapshotting, data duplication and backup within a fully fire-walled and highly available hardware environment.“

“The company is a partner of Vembu Technologies and utilise its StoreGrid technology, a network-based disk-to-disk software system for backing up desktops and servers, to control the client’s automatic backup and data management requirements outside or inside the data centre and provide an off-site data repository,” continued Berndt. “In addition, our solutions include revisioning, copying and archiving capabilities as well as virtual snapshotting of data images, thus providing a very cost-effective value-add to our connectivity and Internet solutions portfolio and of course, our co-location and virtual server hosting facilities also include these data recovery capabilities.“

“DR has now become essential facility in today’s online world,” concluded Berndt. “It is no longer an optional extra. Ignoring such an option or having only a partial capability in this regard now puts businesses at significant risk and is likely to have dire results.“

Vembu Technologies Pvt Ltd., based in Chennai, India, provides flexible, reliable and cost-effective backup solutions. Vembu StoreGrid is built to address the complex data protection and DR requirements of dedicated, shared, cloud and managed hosting providers. Worldwide, some 3 000 service providers utilise StoreGrid for the managed backup services they offer customers and thus can backup heterogeneous and virtualised environments at an affordable cost.