Backup and Recovery.
Generic backup was never designed for your environment. We architect custom recovery systems for South African businesses around your specific data footprint, compliance obligations, and tolerance for loss. Every backup policy, retention schedule, and recovery target is engineered to match your operational reality.
Before you enquire
Plan backup and recovery around your business.
Start with what needs protecting and what a successful recovery would mean for your team. Use these details to discuss recovery targets and a practical testing plan.
- Systems and data
- List servers, cloud applications, Microsoft 365 and file storage that need protection. Include data volumes, retention needs and any existing backup tools.
- Recovery targets
- Decide how long each system can be unavailable and how much recent work you could afford to lose. Different applications may need different targets.
- Restore testing
- Share the date and outcome of your last restore test. Agree which systems, access credentials and dependencies the next recovery test must cover.
Our team will follow up to discuss your requirements and next steps.
EVERY MINUTE OFFLINE
Most organisations suffer from a "resiliency gap" where their technical ability to restore systems is significantly slower than the pace at which the business loses money during an outage. The chart quantifies this gap by sector. Yet many firms still rely on legacy backup systems that have not been modernised in years.
The question is not whether your business will experience a data event. The question is whether your recovery architecture can bring you back online before the financial damage becomes irreversible.
Hourly Downtime Impact by Sector
Illustrative figures in ZAR. Hover for detail.
YOUR DATA ENVIRONMENT IS UNIQUE
Off-the-shelf backup treats every business the same. Revolution starts by mapping your Recovery Time Objective (how fast you need to be operational) and your Recovery Point Objective (how much data you can afford to lose) against the actual financial cost of your specific downtime. This alignment is the difference between a backup policy and a recovery strategy. Your data volumes, your transaction patterns, your regulatory requirements, and your downtime tolerances are unique. Your protection architecture should be too.
ZERO LOSS.
Three technical capabilities that revolutionise how fast you recover and how little you lose. Engineered to eliminate the two metrics that define backup failure: Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective.
CONTINUOUS DATA PROTECTION
Traditional scheduled backups create a data loss gap between snapshots. If your last backup ran at midnight and disaster strikes at 11pm, you lose 23 hours of work. Continuous Data Protection eliminates this gap through real-time write journaling. Every change to every file is captured the moment it happens, bringing your Recovery Point Objective to near zero.
- →Real-time write journaling replaces scheduled snapshot windows.
- →Near-zero RPO eliminates the data loss gap between backup cycles.
- →Journal-based recovery lets you roll back to any point in time, not just the last snapshot.
INSTANT DATA INJECTION
The traditional recovery bottleneck is not backup. It is restore. Copying terabytes of data from backup storage to production infrastructure takes hours or days. Instant Data Injection bypasses this entirely. Your backup storage mounts directly as live production storage. Users resume work while full restoration completes in the background. Recovery Time Objective: minutes, not days.
- →Live-mount backup volumes directly as production storage.
- →Users resume work immediately while background hydration completes.
- →RTO reduced from days to minutes for mission-critical workloads.
GRANULAR RECOVERY PRECISION
Restoring an entire server to recover a single email wastes time, compute, and storage. Our platform delivers object-level recovery precision. Retrieve a single Exchange email, a specific SharePoint document, an individual database row, or a single VM without restoring the surrounding infrastructure. Fast, targeted, and non-disruptive.
- →Object-level precision: recover a single email, file, or database record.
- →No full-system restore required for granular recovery scenarios.
- →Self-service recovery portal for authorised users reduces IT dependency.
RANSOMWARE
BY DESIGN
Modern ransomware targets backup infrastructure first. If your backups can be encrypted, deleted, or tampered with, they are not backups. They are liabilities. Combined with a robust cybersecurity strategy, our platform enforces Write Once Read Many (WORM) immutability at the storage layer. No account, including root-level administrators, can modify or delete protected data before its retention period expires.
Zero-Touch Protection
Auto-discovery detects new virtual machines, cloud buckets, and endpoints the moment they appear. Business-rule policies assign backup schedules, retention periods, and replication targets without manual intervention. Human error is removed from the backup lifecycle entirely.
Absolute Immutability (WORM)
Write Once Read Many storage prevents modification or deletion by any user, including administrators. Ransomware cannot encrypt what it cannot alter.
Auto-Discovery & Classification
New VMs, cloud storage buckets, and SaaS accounts are detected and protected automatically. No asset goes unprotected because someone forgot to configure it.
Policy-Driven Backup Lifecycle
Business rules govern schedules, retention, replication, and tiering. Policies execute consistently without manual intervention or human error.
Tamper-Proof Audit Trails
Every backup event, policy change, and recovery action is logged immutably. Full compliance visibility for POPIA, GDPR, and industry-specific mandates.
RECOVERY ARCHITECTURE
Recovery speed and data protection mean nothing if the underlying architecture cannot scale with your business. Three engineering principles ensure your backup platform scales with your business requirements.
SCALE-OUT ARCHITECTURE (RAIN)
Redundant Array of Independent Nodes. Unlike monolithic storage appliances that hit a ceiling, RAIN architecture adds performance linearly. Each new node increases throughput, capacity, and fault tolerance simultaneously. No forklift upgrades. No migration projects. No downtime windows.
- →Linear performance scaling: add nodes, add capacity, add speed.
- →No single point of failure across the storage cluster.
- →Non-disruptive expansion without data migration or service interruption.
UNIFIED DATA ORCHESTRATION
A single global namespace across on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud storage. The Global File System with hub-and-spoke replication assimilates data from every environment into one unified control plane. Global file locking prevents version conflicts so your teams collaborate across geographies without duplicate data or sync collisions.
- →Single global namespace eliminates data silos across hybrid cloud.
- →Hub-and-spoke replication with global file locking for distributed teams.
- →Data assimilation from any source: on-premises, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
INTELLIGENT STORAGE TIERING
Not all data deserves the same storage investment. Our four-tier model automatically places data on the most cost-effective medium based on access frequency and criticality. Mission-critical production data lives on NVMe/SSD. Active operational data moves to high-performance HDD. Warm reference data shifts to cost-optimised storage. Cold archives sit on deep storage at minimal cost.
- →Tier 0/1: Mission-critical data on NVMe/SSD for sub-millisecond access.
- →Tier 2/3: Active and warm data on optimised storage balancing speed and cost.
- →Tier 4: Cold archive on deep storage at a fraction of primary storage cost.
The Opportunity Gap
36 month operational efficiency: Legacy Hardware vs Cloud Agility
Average customer saves 40% on total cost of ownership by eliminating idle hardware capacity and reducing maintenance overhead.
Legacy Hardware Bound
- •Hits capacity ceiling and plateaus
- •Expensive infrastructure upgrades required
- •Maintenance burden increases exponentially
- •Locked into procurement cycles and capex
Cloud Agility
- •Continuous growth without infrastructure limits
- •Operational expenses only (zero capex)
- •Efficiency scales with business demand
- •No lost revenue from capacity constraints
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Technical answers to the questions South African businesses ask most about data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Data Protection
We partner with established data protection and storage infrastructure vendors to architect the right recovery solution for your specific environment and workload requirements.
Is Your Data Protection
Every hour without a tested recovery plan is an hour of unquantified risk to your operations. Let us map your data estate, define your RTO and RPO thresholds, and design a protection architecture, integrated with your network infrastructure, that reflects the true value of your operations.