CITIC moves from the virtual world to cloud

HONG KONG: CITIC Telecom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings has become the first Veeam cloud provider (VCP) in APAC.

This partnership will strengthen CITIC Telecom’s SmartCLOUD BRR (back-up, replication, and recovery) virtual to cloud capabilities.

As a VCP, CITIC will deliver offsite back-ups, standby replica VMs, and disaster recovery sites, as cloud services like Back-up-as-a-Service and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service through its SmartCLOUD BRR solutions.

Daniel Kwong, Senior Vice President, Information Technology and Security Services, CITIC, said, "Back-ups really have never been easier and mastering the crucial 3-2-1 rule of keeping three copies of data, on two types of media, with one copy being offsite is more achievable and affordable than ever before, leveraging CITIC Telecom CPC's cloud service centres in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan."

A CITIC customer, Pedro Ng, Director, IT, Peak Reinsurance Company, said, "Compared with legacy backup solutions, SmartCLOUD BRR greatly shortens the back-up time with email reports to ensure each backup job is completed successfully. As a company in the BFSI industry, we demand for stringent back-up service requirements, and the solution has been able to cater to our needs since the last two years."