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du makes Cloud Disaster Recovery simple and affordable with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
[October 17, 2014]

du makes Cloud Disaster Recovery simple and affordable with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)


(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 17 October 2014 Release date- 16102014 - Dubai, UAE - du - the Middle East's fastest growing telecommunications service provide - today announced Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) under its Business Cloud - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform during GITEX Technology Week 2014.



To be available commercially from Q4 2014 in partnership with IT Max, the service provides continuous availability with service level agreement when uptime is absolutely critical. This fully secure and fully automated self-service solution allows failover from a web based portal and gets critical systems up and running within a defined window specified by customers. Designed to scale based on customer needs, it caters to both large enterprises and SMEs.

'In today's dynamic business environment, planning for disaster recovery is a necessity and not an option. It's critical for any business - be it a large enterprise or a small, growing company to factor in this as part of their business plan. Many companies would rather focus on their core business than lock in their money in building up their expertise in this domain, This is where we come in with our end-to-end solution offering security, scalability and cost effectiveness with complete peace of mind, ' said Fahad Al Hassawi, Chief Commercial Officer, du.


'Our Disaster Recovery as a Service can minimize the downtime of your business up to 15 minutes by automating all the processes required to recover your environment, Al Hassawi added.

This solution allows its users to grow rapidly by accelerating the time and effort in setting up their IT environment for applications, servers, storage and managed services. It will also assure business continuity in a very simple and quick deployment. du can now provide the whole infrastructure companies might require on a subscription model, starting from a very entry level. This will let them grow in a very flexible way as their demands keep growing and focus just on core business rather than daily IT tasks, improving business productivity.

'We understand the challenges of our customers. This cost-effective solution with a simple monthly fee will allow for easy budgeting for all type of organisations. It will also enable organisations to meet their business continuity targets with extremely low RPOs and RTOs,' Al Hassawi added.

'At the heart of our disaster recovery approach is the management of three areas: protecting your data, recovering your environment, and managing your recovery,' said Naji Salameh, Managing Director for IT Max, partner of du Business Cloud.

Disaster Recovery is available to du IaaS as an out-of-the-box optional feature, du Colocation or between customer's sites.

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