Dimension Data is launching an optional Cloud Backup and recovery service. The new Cloud Backup will be available as an add-on to the company’s enterprise-class public, private and hosted Compute-as-a-Service offerings and will enable organizations to back up their files, folders, systems, apps and data to Dimension Data’s cloud data centers. The company officials said this will “ensure business continuity and protection for enterprise workloads.”
Dimension Data offers three versions of Cloud Backup (Cloud Backup Essentials, Cloud Backup Advanced, and Cloud Backup Enterprise) to enable companies to meet the needs for simple file and folder backup, as well as full application, system, and file backup and restore.
“Cloud users often manage their backup in-house, which can be complicated and costly,” Steve Nola, cloud business unit CEO at Dimension Data, said in a press statement. “By offering the integrated Cloud Backup service, Dimension Data enables businesses to back up whole applications while providing assurance that historical data is secure and easy to access.”
Cloud Backup will be offered as an option for CaaS users to select as they provision their cloud environment using Dimension Data’s web-based user interface or REST-based API.
Other important features of Dimension Data’s Cloud Backup include:
- The ability to select a secondary data copy from any backup-enabled and configured Dimension Data Managed Cloud Platform
- Visibility into backup status, coverage and success rates
- A choice of pre-configured retention periods from one month to seven years
- A choice of pre-configured backup windows, and self-service access to and restoration of stored data.
Customers will be able to set up Cloud Backup through Dimension Data’s self-service CloudControl Web UI or API. The Cloud Backup service will be available on Dimension Data MCPs located in the United States and Australia starting in October, and then be extended to Asia, Europe and the Middle East & Africa before the end of the year, officials said.
Pricing starts at $10 per cloud server plus $0.10 per GB of data storage per month.
SOURCE: Dimension Data