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Arcserve unveils Business
Continuity Cloud solution
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rcserve Southern Africa has
announced the unveiling of Arcserve
Business Continuity Cloud, the
first fully-integrated cloud-born solution
to prevent the impact of unplanned
downtime. It immediately restores access
to critical data, systems and applications
across complex, multi-generational IT
infrastructures ranging from non-x86 and
x86, to software as a service (SaaS) and
infrastructure as a service (IaaS). With this
solution, Arcserve solves the challenges of
protecting modern IT caused by the time,
skill, expense and multiple tools needed to
protect new workloads.
According to new data being released by
Arcserve, 64% of global IT decision-makers
agree that protecting business-critical data
has not become easier over the past five
years, despite efforts to adopt solutions to
simplify and reduce costs. Further, as backup
infrastructures are increasingly becoming
costlier and more complex, the tolerance for
data loss is diminishing. A total of 93% of IT
decision-makers revealed their organisations
could tolerate ‘minimal’ if any, data loss from
critical business applications, yet just 26% feel
extremely confident in their ability to recover
quickly enough to avoid business disruption.
“Based on our observations and
underscored by this research, it’s evident
that organisations cannot effectively
protect modern IT infrastructures with
today’s incomplete tools that create more
complexity, drive up the total cost of
ownership, and ultimately increase the risk
of data loss and downtime through gaps
in protection,” said Byron Horn-Botha,
Arcserve Southern Africa, Lead: Channel and
Partnerships. “Arcserve Business Continuity
Cloud is the only solution capable of
addressing these challenges by bringing all
data protection processes together in one
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place. Whether migrating workloads to the
cloud, needing advanced VM protection or
requiring support for sub-minute RTOs and
RPOs – it’s all under one bonnet.”
Edwin Yuen, Senior Analyst at Enterprise
Strategy Group, added: “Arcserve has
accomplished something unique in this
market by closing a substantial gap
for businesses requiring more robust
data protection capabilities without the
complexity of juggling multiple backup tools
for new or disparate workloads.
“Many solutions today consist of products
bolted together with a UI upgrade, yet
Arcserve Business Continuity Cloud stands
out with a level of integration beyond most
other vendors, creating a truly seamless
solution that’s extremely intuitive yet
incredibly powerful.”
Arcserve Business Continuity Cloud
eliminates the need for other data protection
tools and management consoles with fully-
integrated capabilities to protect and restore
applications and systems in any location,
on-premises and in public and private clouds.
• Provides a consumer-grade user
experience: Capabilities spanning the
data protection lifecycle are accessible
through a customisable, cloud-based web
console. Most tasks are implemented in
three clicks or less
• Eliminates data loss and extended
downtime: Supports near-zero RTOs and
RPOs with high availability, minutes with
virtual standby and instant VM, hours with
bare metal restore, and granular recovery
and quick discovery for compliance
• Shifts the economic profile: Fully-
integrated technologies reduce time and
money spent on IT management by up
to 50%
• Simplifies protecting modern IT
infrastructures: Safeguards modern
infrastructures, including those with x86,
non-x86, SaaS and IaaS. Multi-cloud
and cross-cloud data protection support
organisations planning to or are currently
in the process of implementing a cloud
platform for backup or disaster recovery
Additional findings from the survey found
that as data protection concerns grow, most
organisations are looking to the cloud for
backup and disaster recovery. IT decision-
makers cite implementing a cloud platform
for backup and disaster recovery as their top
priority this year, with more confidence in
protecting critical data in private clouds than
local storage, hypervisors, public clouds and
Blockchain. Concerns over downtime and
data loss are growing, primarily driven by:
• Media coverage of data breaches and/or
ransomware attacks
• Cambridge Analytica’s access to
Facebook users’ personal information
• The 2017 Equifax data breach n
Byron Horn-Botha, Arcserve Southern Africa,
Lead: Channel and Partnerships
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