Organisations across Africa are rapidly adopting cloud-native and harnessing hybrid, multicloud models.
If not managed correctly, this can lead to increased complexity and risk to backup and recovery.
Backup as a service (BaaS) overcomes these challenges, says Matthew Lee, cloud and hosting manager: sub-Saharan Africa at Veeam.
“As organisations become digitally transformed, they are moving away from the traditional stock systems to modern, cloud-friendly solutions,” says Lee. “They are embracing public, private and hybrid cloud environments and the ever-growing software as a service solutions.
“As you can appreciate, these environments have the tendency to become more complex if not managed correctly,” he adds.
“Added to this is the growing adoption of technologies like Kubernetes and containers. Organisations also need to understand how these impact data resiliency and compliance.”
In these increasingly complex, hybrid environments, visibility can be a challenge. “With multiple backup solutions for various systems, organisations must monitor various consoles and applications.
They need the ability to bring them all together to simplify operations and improve resilience,” says Lee.
While organisations grapple with the complexity of hybrid environments, they also face an onslaught of increasingly sophisticated ransomware.
“Africa definitely is a target for a growing number of ransomware attacks, possibly because the continent lagged behind the rest of the world in terms of digital development in the past,” Lee says.
Across Africa, organisations are also having to meet ever-more rigorous regulatory requirements, he notes.
“Ransomware and compliance are two of the biggest drivers for organisations to reassess their backup and recovery solutions to bolster resilience,” he says. “Major organisations focusing on their core operations and the pressures of digital transformation are finding they struggle to keep up with the speed and complexity of changing risk and the demands of ensuring secure and immutable backup as part of their resilience strategies.”