Neworder Industries, a local company specialising in the provision of enterprise risk management (ERM), virtualisation and storage solutions, has launched an holistic data recovery and retention solution, Nebula DR, which guarantees business continuity in the event of a disaster and enables compliance with King-III.
Nebula DR is an end-to-end solution that includes expert consulting; hardware for storing server images both locally and remotely; software that clones entire systems, and data synchronisation from onsite to offsite units. The solution is offered as a purchasable solution or as a service which means companies can lease the hardware, software and offsite facilities rather than incurring the cost of buying these components.
Herman van Heerden, executive director at Neworder, says Nebula DR is a complete data recovery service that addresses the shortfalls of traditional disaster recovery setups.
“Nebula DR is more than backups, bandwidth or rack space at an offsite data centre. It is an holistic solution that covers all the bases for effective disaster recovery. The solution provides for full system cloning, not just data. This includes the operating system, patches, software and data. Everything is cloned to an onsite clone server and replicated via the Internet at an offsite disaster recovery centre.
“Because Nebula DR provides for the cloning of full server systems, time-consuming, complicated manual data backups are a thing of the past and there is no need to reinstall servers from scratch when they fail. Instead, entire systems can be immediately restored from the onsite clone server as they were at the time of the last clone, saving days, if not weeks, on complex system setup and configuration. The replication of the clone server at an offsite location enables King-III compliance and allows for full system restoration, even if disaster strikes at the office."
According to van Heerden, the solution is non-invasive to the company infrastructure because the working of systems and servers is left as is. Existing backup procedures that are already in place can also be left unchanged. Nebula DR is simply an add-on to the network.
Nebula DR can clone both physical and virtual servers. When disaster strikes, restoration of cloned servers – both physical and virtual – can be done to either a physical or virtual environment. It is also operating system agnostic. All operating systems are supported on the x86 platform, from MS Windows, to all UNIX type servers, so there are no special system requirements.
Incremental backups of desktop systems connected to the network can also be scheduled. These backups of documents and files are done to the onsite server and mirrored offsite.
Herman van Heerden, 083 671 3977, herman@n3word3r.com
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