Today's South African company has three critical problems with data:
- Cyber-attacks have increased by 23% month on month
- Speed of data access, business continuity and back-ups
- Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) compliance
You can't afford to be down for hours, days or weeks. Cyber threats are getting worse. South African businesses must put measures in place to ensure they avoid being prime targets for cyberattacks.
POPIA also threw a spanner in the South African data centre hosting works! Since July 2021, businesses in South Africa need to comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act, which can compromise full compliance if your data is hosted outside of South Africa.
Data has become the most expensive currency as data breaches and data leaks can make you lose a lot of money. You could be hit by ransomware and the money to pay could be far more expensive than what you would’ve to pay to put the cyber protection measures in place.
A locally hosted data centre is the ideal solution.
Can you trust a local data centre? Is it that reliable? Would you be willing to move local when you don't know the repercussions?
Absolutely. Having your data stored in a data center located within region where the data belongs means that you are fully compliant in terms of POPIA and this also reduces latency.
Acronis, a global provider of cyber protection, backup, disaster recovery and secure file sync and share solutions, recently launched a data centre in South Africa. Partnering with Acronis means you have addressed concerns around data security and governance.
Rectron is a leading ICT distribution company offering software, networking, data centre solutions, surveillance, data storage and cloud computing products and services. The services include sales, ICT product distribution, technical support, assembly, repairs and financing for resellers and retailers,. We make sure we give you the right solution for your business needs. When we partner, like we are partnering with Acronis, we do it right.
Here is how having a local data centre solution can get rid of those security and data protection hangover headaches:
In the past few years, we have seen how companies and customers in general have been skeptical of having their data stored in the cloud, more especially if the data center is in regions outside South Africa.
Acronis addressed those concerns by investing in building a data center within South African soil. Data locality improves systems through-out. Moving gigabytes of data between systems and the centres consumes massive bandwidth and time, which can slow down operations. The speed of uploading data is important and the time it takes to restore backups is also important, a local data centre addresses these concerns as it reduces latency. This also means that companies can now afford to have regular backups.
A local data centre is a necessity for modern cloud businesses. A South African data centre means that you get access to your data faster.
Be POPIA compliant
With POPIA being enforced, South African companies must reconsider their data storage location policy, especially when a public cloud is in the picture. Cloud companies are global entities – how would you know if your South Africa specific data is being sent to another country for processing?
An offshore data centre can mean that you are contravening the POPI Act, and you could be opening yourself up to civil proceedings.
Cyber-attacks on SMBs have increased to more than 43% and this number is growing month on month. Smaller companies may often think that they are not targeted because of the size of their business and these are the types of negligence that cyber criminals look at. Cyber criminals never sleep, and they attack SMBs in volumes as this is where most vulnerabilities are due to the basic level of cyber protection applied by SMBs.
The global nature of the Acronis data centre network means that a customer's data can be stored where the customer would like. This ensures that regulatory compliance and connectivity requirements are met.
Data back-up and cyber protection come together in one solution with the Acronis/Rectron partnership
Acronis gives your company and your customers access to cloud, hybrid and on-prem backup solutions, with the added benefit of watertight cyber protection.
It’s more than just backup.
Acronis has been in the backup space for quite a while now and they have assessed and saw the need for cyber protection as well, hence they have implemented new features on their solution to give you robust, comprehensive data protection and not only protecting your data, but also protecting your workloads as well.
Your data is safe, meaning you can have complete peace of mind.
