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Blueshift Data Protection (Blueshift K.K.), a data backup and recovery service pioneer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, today announced it has launched DataProtect Data Backup and Recovery services in Singapore using hosting services provided by KVH, Asia’s leading information delivery platform. The service will leverage data center services that KVH provides in Tokyo and Singapore.
Blueshift DataProtect is a suite of data backup and recovery solutions designed to address the disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning (BCP) needs of businesses operating between Singapore and Tokyo. KVH was selected to support Blueshift’s expansion based on its highly robust and reliable data centers located in Tokyo and Singapore. KVH’s facilities that have been purposely designed to meet the strict needs and regulations of the financial industry are best suited for Blueshift to offer highest level of security for its customers.
By leveraging KVH’s hosting services, Blueshift will offer Singapore-based customers:
- Secure data backup and recovery services for critical company information
- Fast and easy service installation to get up and running without impact to daily operations
- Minimal resource and technology investments while addressing corporate data growth
- Ideal BCP and DR backup services, fully functional with sophisticated de-duplication, compression and encryption
The expansion of Blueshift DataProtect services into Singapore aims to address growing demand for both private and public cloud backup services in the Asia-Pacific region, which has been driven by the accelerated growth of a variety of data sets, structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, commonly known as Big Data. With data expansion, organizations are facing the challenge of storing data securely and cost-efficiently, forcing enterprises to migrate limitless amount of data and solutions to virtual environments or cloud storage within tight budgets. According to IDC, the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) Big Data technology and services market is expected to grow from US$258.5 million in 2011 to US$1.76 billion in 2016, at a five-year CAGR of 46.8%. The highest growth is expected to come from storage, with a CAGR of 56.1%[1].
Starting from Singapore, Blueshift plans to expand its data backup service throughout APAC with a strategic partnership with KVH.
“As KVH is also strategically expanding our presence and service portfolio in Singapore and throughout Asia Pacific, we are pleased to have been selected to support the regional expansion of these data backup services with our partner, Blueshift,” says Ras Scollay, Director of Sales at KVH Singapore.
“Expanding business outside your traditional market is never an easy proposition and best done with someone you trust. KVH has been providing high quality hosting services to Blueshift for a number of years and were the natural choice as we looked to grow outside of Japan,” says Brent Reichow, Co-founder and CEO of Blueshift Data Protection.
[1] Source: Big Data Emerging at a Rapid Pace Across Asia Pacific, IDC Reports, 30 Oct 2012
