{"id":93931,"date":"2025-12-08T19:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/why-south-african-businesses-cant-rely-on-backups-alone"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:32:20","slug":"why-south-african-businesses-cant-rely-on-backups-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/why-south-african-businesses-cant-rely-on-backups-alone","title":{"rendered":"Why South African Businesses Can&#8217;t Rely on Backups Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Ransomware has become one of the most common and damaging threats facing South African organisations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Click here to learn more about Resilient Innovations Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Attackers are no longer simply locking servers and demanding a payment.<\/p>\n<p>They now target backups, cloud accounts, credentials and anything connected to a production environment.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This is why more organisations are moving beyond traditional backups and adopting real time replication.<\/p>\n<p>Replication continuously copies live data and systems into a secure secondary environment, allowing businesses to recover almost immediately when something goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p>A backup provides a point in time copy.<\/p>\n<p>Replication provides an almost live version that is ready to run the moment it is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Regulatory expectations are also increasing.<\/p>\n<p>Auditors now look for evidence of testing, proof of recoverability and clear governance over how data is protected.<\/p>\n<p>Clients, partners and insurers are asking tougher questions too.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Replication gives organisations a far stronger answer to these questions than backups alone.<\/p>\n<p>Technology trends are contributing to this shift.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>These environments still require strong recoverability, and replication has become one of the most reliable ways to keep data readily accessible across multiple platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Not all replication solutions are equal, which is why the underlying model matters so much.<\/p>\n<p>Many providers claim to be vendor agnostic, yet their environments complicate failover and add unnecessary risk.<\/p>\n<p>Resilient Innovations has taken a different approach.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This allows businesses to maintain full data sovereignty, a growing requirement in many industries.<\/p>\n<p>Resilient Innovations supports this with more than three decades of experience in business resilience.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>It is a model built around practical recoverability rather than theoretical assurance.<\/p>\n<p>For organisations that want to strengthen their resilience posture, Resilient Innovations offers Disaster Recovery as a Service through <b>https:\/\/www.ri.africa\/disaster-recoveryas-a-service<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who signs up after reading this article on BusinessTech will receive one month free as part of the onboarding.<\/p>\n<p>South African organisations are beginning to realise that backups alone cannot carry the weight of today\u2019s risks.<\/p>\n<p>Replication provides the continuity, confidence and speed needed to recover from incidents that can unfold within minutes.<\/p>\n<p>For businesses that want to protect their operations and their reputation, it is becoming one of the most important investments they can make.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. 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