Africa-Press – South-Africa. Ransomware has become one of the most common and damaging threats facing South African organisations.
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Attackers are no longer simply locking servers and demanding a payment.
They now target backups, cloud accounts, credentials and anything connected to a production environment.
ITIC research shows that more than nine out of ten enterprises say a single hour of downtime costs more than one hundred thousand rand, and many report that the reputational damage lasts much longer than the technical outage.
This is why more organisations are moving beyond traditional backups and adopting real time replication.
Replication continuously copies live data and systems into a secure secondary environment, allowing businesses to recover almost immediately when something goes wrong.
A backup provides a point in time copy.
Replication provides an almost live version that is ready to run the moment it is needed.
Regulatory expectations are also increasing.
Auditors now look for evidence of testing, proof of recoverability and clear governance over how data is protected.
Clients, partners and insurers are asking tougher questions too.
They want to know how quickly an organisation can recover, how much data it might lose and whether it has a clean environment to fail over into.
Replication gives organisations a far stronger answer to these questions than backups alone.
Technology trends are contributing to this shift.
More South African businesses are moving to either full cloud or hybrid environments and many are exploring private cloud options to improve performance, security and cost predictability.
These environments still require strong recoverability, and replication has become one of the most reliable ways to keep data readily accessible across multiple platforms.
Not all replication solutions are equal, which is why the underlying model matters so much.
Many providers claim to be vendor agnostic, yet their environments complicate failover and add unnecessary risk.
Resilient Innovations has taken a different approach.
The organisation uses Veeam at the core of its platform, provides clear costing with no egress fees and ensures that client data remains within South Africa at all times.
This allows businesses to maintain full data sovereignty, a growing requirement in many industries.
Resilient Innovations supports this with more than three decades of experience in business resilience.
The organisation operates award winning recovery facilities, offers enterprise grade infrastructure and gives clients the option to recover into fully managed work area recovery spaces.
It is a model built around practical recoverability rather than theoretical assurance.
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South African organisations are beginning to realise that backups alone cannot carry the weight of today’s risks.
Replication provides the continuity, confidence and speed needed to recover from incidents that can unfold within minutes.
For businesses that want to protect their operations and their reputation, it is becoming one of the most important investments they can make.
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