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Cloud firms team up to boost data security

Two Yorkshire cloud firms have joined forces to offer their customers better data protection.

virtualDCS, a cloud and disaster recovery specialist, is hosting Vapour’s Veeam backups, after striking a deal with the cloud firm. The partnership will give clients more scale, flexibility, and security for their data management.

Jason Fenwick (right), a former Vapour engineer with over 30 years of IT experience, has moved to virtualDCS as part of the deal. He will make sure the service is smooth and the customers are happy.

virtualDCS signs cloud shuttle agreement with Seagate

Cloudy disaster recovery outfit virtualDCS claims to be improving the speed at which its partners can restore, move, and consolidate data, after teaming up with Seagate.

The new Seagate Lyve offering, known as CloudCover Shuttle at virtual DCS, offers a fast and secure method of physical data transfer to avoid long transfer times dependent on internet bandwidth. The shuttle enables businesses to move their data quickly, securely, and simply from endpoints to the edge and the landing destination of the data.

Organisations that are seeding backup data, recovering data after a disaster, or carrying out hardware upgrades and Cloud migrations, can now access a physical data ‘shuttle’ service, without the need for capital expenditure and hardware purchases.

VirtualDCS brings Jeniya Klimova onboard

VirtualDCS has a new channel account executive.

IT backup, recovery and data management expert, Jeniya Klimova, who has spent the past five years working at global software company, Veeam, has joined the team at cloud computing and disaster recovery specialists, virtualDCS, as a channel account executive.

The company has changed its course to focus on providing infrastructure, backup and disaster recovery services which provide UK data sovereignty, to IT partners that want to offer cloud-based backup services to their clients and end-users.

VirtualDCS CloudCover services feature best of breed solutions from Veeam, which is the world leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver modern data protection.

David Helm takes over at virtualDCS

Leeds based cloud computing and disaster recovery specialist, virtualDCS, has appointed technology expert, Dave Helm, as a non-executive director to spearhead the company’s next phase of growth.

For those who came in late, Helm co-founded Leeds based IT services business, Blue Logic, which supplied technology, cloud solutions and IT security. Blue Logic employed an 80-strong team and with an annual turnover of more than £8million when it was sold in 2019.

Following this, Helm now holds non-executive director roles at a number of leading technology companies, including Leeds firms, Rabb-IT and Cindercone.

He said: “Over the last decade virtualDCS has made a big impact in the IT industry, establishing a market leading range of products including its CloudCover Disaster Recovery suite and its market leading Microsoft 365 backup solution, CloudCover 365. These products are now widely used by clients across the public and private sectors.