Computerlinks to offer multi-vendor business continuity

Distributor Computerlinks is adding to its business continuity and disaster recovery portfolio with the signing of Restorepoint, by TADASoft.
The appointment provides resellers with access to Restorepoint –an integrated hardware or virtualised platform that automatically backs up, encrypts and restores network and security devices from 35 vendors through a single console. It claims to be is the only vendor-independent appliance on the market and the first dedicated product to address this issue.
Recent research by the IBM Institute for Business Value shows that only half of businesses have a formal risk management department or business continuity strategy in place.
“Business continuity is an extremely hot area for the channel,” explains David Ellis, director of new technology and services at Computerlinks. “We are looking forward to working with Restorepoint as we believe it addresses many of the challenges that our partners are being asked to deal with when planning for disasters or managing compliance. Restorepoint will also enable our partners to generate incremental business streams by allowing them to revisit their existing customers that have invested in multi-vendor solutions.”
Restorepoint supports networking and security devices from Check Point, Cisco, Blue Coat, Juniper, F5 Networks, Palo Alto, NetApp, Brocade, Riverbed and Aruba. It is managed from one central location via a secure web interface.
Says Michael Bell, sales director at TADASoft: “Organisations that have had disaster recovery plans in place for years regularly centrally backup their data and applications. Achieving the same and being able to recover from configuration changes or failures of multi-vendor network or security devices, however, is far more complicated and typically requires a high degree of skill. Networks underpin all the other IT systems that support so many business operations today, so even a small outage can lead to a loss of revenue, access to critical applications, and impact productivity. It’s a fact of life that companies will experience hardware failures and human errors will continue to cause network outages too - it’s how quickly you recover from them that makes the difference.”
 
He continues: “Working with Computerlinks we believe their networking and security skills will be a real asset to partners working with organisations where network uptime is critical. The value they bring with both pre and post sales support is a real advantage for us and our channel partners.”
The announcement follows Computerlinks UK’s remodelling last year of its business to focus on emerging technologies such as virtualisation, cloud computing and IP-based physical security.