Huawei OceanProtect – World-class backup storage for South African businesses

Huawei OceanProtect is leading the backup storage industry by championing a superior backup technology: Flash-to-Flash-to-Anything (F2F2X).

F2F2X is a huge improvement on the current industry standard – Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (D2D2T) – which requires unacceptably long backup windows and unpredictable recovery times.

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The storage industry is slowly following in Huawei’s footsteps, with flash-based backup storage systems now increasing in popularity globally, but Huawei remains the leader in this space.

Its OceanProtect solutions are your best choice if you want to take advantage of F2F2X for your business – and we explain why, below.

Impressive performance

Huawei OceanProtect stands above competing products thanks to its incredible archiving performance, powered by Huawei’s unrivalled end-to-end input/output optimisation.

Huawei’s OceanProtect storage devices offer up to 155TB/h backup bandwidth and 172TB/h recovery bandwidth – beating other solutions several times over.

This is complemented by Huawei OceanProtect’s 20% higher reduction ratio, allowing you to work with more data while using less storage space.

Huawei has invested heavily to achieve this premium data reduction ratio, which is currently up to 72:1.

Bandwidth costs are decreased further thanks to Huawei’s innovative source and replication link deduplication features – eliminating excessive copies of data and reducing the amount of data being transferred to and from your Huawei OceanProtect storage devices.

Resilience

Security features are a critical consideration when selecting a backup storage system, with ransomware one of the biggest threats to South African business resilience and data security.

Huawei OceanProtect backup storage solutions have your business fully covered in this regard, delivering industry-leading ransomware protection through in-depth detection of backup copies,  end-to-end encryption, data tampering prevention, and physical isolation technologies.

These security features ensure your data is well-protected at all times, while providing easily-accessible copies of your data to authorised users.

Excellent compatibility

Huawei OceanProtect Target Storage models are designed to be compatible with the most popular backup software on the market, allowing your business to continue using your existing backup storage software.

This compatibility includes the following software:

• Commvault
• Oracle RMAN
• Veeam
• Veritas NetBackup
• Rubrik
• Micro Focus Data Protector
• IBM Spectrum Protect
• EMC NetWorker
• Etc.

OceanProtect also supports Integrated Appliance implementations, and built-in self-developed backup software without to purchase backup servers and software while reducing data protection costs.

Both types of implementations are suitable across a wide range of industries, including government, finance, carrier, energy, and manufacturing.

First Distribution and Huawei OceanProtect

First Distribution is a leading South African ICT distributor which focuses on datacentre, cloud, networking, and security products and services.

It boasts over 40 years of experience in the local ICT landscape, and counts Huawei OceanProtect among the many solutions it offers.

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