Close Menu
TechCentralTechCentral

    Subscribe to the newsletter

    Get the best South African technology news and analysis delivered to your e-mail inbox every morning.

    Facebook X (Twitter) YouTube LinkedIn
    WhatsApp Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn YouTube
    TechCentralTechCentral
    • News

      Public money, private plans: MPs demand Post Office transparency

      13 June 2025

      Coal to cash: South Africa gets major boost for energy shift

      13 June 2025

      China is behind in AI chips – but for how much longer?

      13 June 2025

      Singapore soared – why can’t we? Lessons South Africa refuses to learn

      13 June 2025

      10 red flags for Apple investors

      13 June 2025
    • World

      Yahoo tries to make its mail service relevant again

      13 June 2025

      Qualcomm shows off new chip for AI smart glasses

      11 June 2025

      Trump tariffs to dim 2025 smartphone shipments

      4 June 2025

      Shrimp Jesus and the AI ad invasion

      4 June 2025

      Apple slams EU rules as ‘flawed and costly’ in major legal pushback

      2 June 2025
    • In-depth

      Grok promised bias-free chat. Then came the edits

      2 June 2025

      Digital fortress: We go inside JB5, Teraco’s giant new AI-ready data centre

      30 May 2025

      Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s big bet to out-Apple Apple

      22 May 2025

      South Africa unveils big state digital reform programme

      12 May 2025

      Is this the end of Google Search as we know it?

      12 May 2025
    • TCS

      TechCentral Nexus S0E1: Starlink, BEE and a new leader at Vodacom

      8 June 2025

      TCS+ | The future of mobile money, with MTN’s Kagiso Mothibi

      6 June 2025

      TCS+ | AI is more than hype: Workday execs unpack real human impact

      4 June 2025

      TCS | Sentiv, and the story behind the buyout of Altron Nexus

      3 June 2025

      TCS | Signal restored: Unpacking the Blue Label and Cell C turnaround

      28 May 2025
    • Opinion

      Beyond the box: why IT distribution depends on real partnerships

      2 June 2025

      South Africa’s next crisis? Being offline in an AI-driven world

      2 June 2025

      Digital giants boost South African news media – and get blamed for it

      29 May 2025

      Solar panic? The truth about SSEG, fines and municipal rules

      14 April 2025

      Data protection must be crypto industry’s top priority

      9 April 2025
    • Company Hubs
      • Africa Data Centres
      • AfriGIS
      • Altron Digital Business
      • Altron Document Solutions
      • Altron Group
      • Arctic Wolf
      • AvertITD
      • Braintree
      • CallMiner
      • CYBER1 Solutions
      • Digicloud Africa
      • Digimune
      • Domains.co.za
      • ESET
      • Euphoria Telecom
      • Incredible Business
      • iONLINE
      • Iris Network Systems
      • LSD Open
      • NEC XON
      • Network Platforms
      • Next DLP
      • Ovations
      • Paracon
      • Paratus
      • Q-KON
      • SkyWire
      • Solid8 Technologies
      • Telit Cinterion
      • Tenable
      • Vertiv
      • Videri Digital
      • Wipro
      • Workday
    • Sections
      • AI and machine learning
      • Banking
      • Broadcasting and Media
      • Cloud services
      • Contact centres and CX
      • Cryptocurrencies
      • Education and skills
      • Electronics and hardware
      • Energy and sustainability
      • Enterprise software
      • Fintech
      • Information security
      • Internet and connectivity
      • Internet of Things
      • Investment
      • IT services
      • Lifestyle
      • Motoring
      • Public sector
      • Retail and e-commerce
      • Science
      • SMEs and start-ups
      • Social media
      • Talent and leadership
      • Telecoms
    • Events
    • Advertise
    TechCentralTechCentral
    Home » Company News » Get maximum protection for on-prem, cloud and virtual environments

    Get maximum protection for on-prem, cloud and virtual environments

    By Tarsus and Dell Technologies12 April 2022
    Twitter LinkedIn Facebook WhatsApp Email Telegram Copy Link
    News Alerts
    WhatsApp

    Over the past few years, the cybersecurity landscape has evolved profoundly, fuelled by entire workforces moving to home during the pandemic, and data growth that has seemed to be unstoppable. Both factors have driven a lot of complexity, which, compounded by new data security and privacy regulations, are seeing CIOs struggling to keep up.

    “Moreover, all these factors unite to create the perfect storm against a context of IT and digital transformation,” says Chris Larkins, Dell Enterprise Business Unit manager at Tarsus Distribution, South Africa’s leading ICT distributor. Similarly, the cloud is fundamentally altering the way in which IT supports business objectives and mandates today, with its usage becoming ubiquitous.

    He says with a mixture of on-premises, off-premises, hyperscale, hybrid and multi-cloud, these technologies have become strategic tools for today’s technical teams and are providing the ideal platform on which to run mission-critical processes and applications.

    Reach out to Tarsus Distribution today for more

    Business applications are also skyrocketing in terms of growth, particularly those in the cloud, with companies moving business-critical applications to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) environments, Larkins explains. “And it goes without saying, that wherever mission-critical workloads sit, data protection and availability services have to be deployed to protect organisations against downtime, data loss and data theft, which could result in financial losses, regulatory fines and a loss of customer confidence.”

    Something else that is affecting the data protection landscape, Larkins says, is that service-level agreements usually tracked for data protection, recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO), are extremely stringent and extensive. Research by ESG revealed that 15% of organisations said they could tolerate zero downtime at all for their mission-critical applications; another 42% claimed their mission-critical applications have to be back online in less than one hour; and a whopping 90% said they could not tolerate more than one hour of lost “mission critical” data.

    One thing is clear, and that is that the future is data-driven and infocentric, and having the right data at the right time will make or break the business. “Businesses across the board are developing new data-centric products and services to help them stay ahead of the curve. The maxim today that data is the new oil is true. It has never been more of a critical asset to the business than it is today, and at the same time, a major challenge because of its exponential growth, the complexity that goes hand-in-hand with it, and the stringent data protection and compliance laws that must be adhered to.”

    Protecting data

    Larkins says these mandates are incredibly hard to meet for any business that doesn’t have the appropriate type of infrastructure in place. “This is where Dell Technologies’ portfolio of data-protection solutions comes in, as it can help entities of every size, and in every market segment, tackle a slew of challenges at the same time.”

    Firstly, Dell’s PowerProtect Data Manager helps businesses protect data and deliver governance control for modern workloads across today’s ever-changing physical, virtual and cloud environments. “This software-defined data protection platform helps address evolving growth and IT complexity, bringing next-generation data protection to organisations, that drives faster IT transformation, while giving them the peace of mind they need: that their data is safe and secure.”

    In fact, he says, Dell has built a full set of solutions for data protection, while remaining laser-focused on continual innovation as workloads, customer needs and cyber actors evolve. “This has resulted in a stable of data-protection solutions that have a proven ability to secure almost any workload, be it physical, virtual, container-based, cloud-native or SaaS.

    With IT infrastructure in a constant state of flux, Dell has also thoroughly addressed data protection requirements for a variety of environments, including edge and core, and a wide range of cloud scenarios. “Guaranteeing availability irrespective of the type of data type wherever it may reside brings operational benefits and the peace of mind that data protection SLAs for customers are met. “The PowerProtect portfolio also gives clients the choice and flexibility to implement either data protection appliances or data protection software solutions that meet their unique data-protection needs,” Larkins explains.

    The fact that it is software-defined means that data protection is flexible, as is compliance across applications and cloud-native IT environments

    In addition, Dell’s offering promises software-defined data protection, deduplication, automated discovery, self-service, operational agility and IT governance for all environment: physical, virtual and cloud. “It also features next-generation cloud data protection, with PowerProtect Data Manager offering efficient data-protection capabilities that leverage the latest evolution of Dell EMC trusted protection storage architecture.”

    Similarly, he says with operational simplicity, agility and flexibility at its heart, the solution enables the protection, management and recovery of data in all environments, regardless of whether they are on-premises, virtualised or cloud deployments, and this includes the protection of in-cloud workloads. Users can also protect cloud-native workloads across a slew of public clouds via Dell’s integrated, SaaS-based PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager.

    In addition, users can simplify virtual machine (VM) image backups with practically no impact on VMs, and can streamline data protection directly for applications or Kubernetes containers, to Dell EMC PowerProtect appliances, which helps to reduce application resource constraints.

    The benefits are many, Larkins adds. “Users can increase business resiliency with PowerProtect Cyber Recovery capabilities to quickly recover in the event of a cyber incident. The solution’s modular design enables agile delivery of any new features and updates, enabling businesses to quickly evolve to meet future IT demands. The fact that it is software-defined means that data protection is flexible, as is compliance across applications and cloud-native IT environments.”

    For more information on Dell’s innovative data protection solutions and to partner with professionals to scope and design a solution that gives you the confidence of knowing that your data is safeguarded across all environments, reach out to Tarsus Distribution today.

    • This promoted content was paid for by the party concerned


    Chris Larkins Dell Dell EMC Tarsus Tarsus Distribution
    Subscribe to TechCentral Subscribe to TechCentral
    Share. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Telegram Email Copy Link
    Previous ArticleWestcon-Comstor unveils Azure Marketplace partner programme
    Next Article ‘Dangerous territory’: Microsoft customers decry cloud contracts that sideline rivals

    Related Posts

    New CEO to take reins at Tarsus Distribution

    30 May 2025

    Surface Copilot+ PCs for business: the future of work, powered by AI

    23 May 2025

    Heads may roll in R90 000 laptops scandal

    6 May 2025
    Add A Comment

    Comments are closed.

    Company News

    Huawei Watch Fit 4 Series: smarter sensors, sharper design, stronger performance

    13 June 2025

    Change Logic and BankservAfrica set new benchmark with PayShap roll-out

    13 June 2025

    SAPHILA 2025 – transcending with purpose, connection and AI-powered vision

    13 June 2025
    Opinion

    Beyond the box: why IT distribution depends on real partnerships

    2 June 2025

    South Africa’s next crisis? Being offline in an AI-driven world

    2 June 2025

    Digital giants boost South African news media – and get blamed for it

    29 May 2025

    Subscribe to Updates

    Get the best South African technology news and analysis delivered to your e-mail inbox every morning.

    © 2009 - 2025 NewsCentral Media

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.