East African Data Handlers Launches Online Backup Service

Kenyan IT company East
African Data Handlers has launched an application that
automatically relays data from a user’s computer to the firm’s data
centre for backup, covering the whole of Africa.

The software dubbed DataHandler,
provides a continuous backup of files whenever the computer is
connected to the Internet.

It is based through a
model referred as Java VM that relays the information retrieved to
the server. This is a backup application that will offer backup from
any computer automatically to the firm’s data centre and will oversee
recovery solutions for a range of software for almost any data loss
situation ranging from accidental formats to virus attacks to
software malfunctions and computer theft.

"Data security has increasingly
become a major challenge both to individuals and cooperate bodies
where recovering lost files has been the biggest challenge. The new
invention seeks to fix the situation," said George Njoroge,
MD, East African Data Handlers. "Most major OSs are supported
including Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, Linux, and Novell. Additional
data recovery solutions include recovery from CD-Rom’s, digital media
recovery (such as digital pictures or music files), and e-mail
recovery. We also provide data protection, backup, and data eraser
software."

"We lowered our fee to make the
service affordable to many people and we don’t intend to increase the
cost any time soon," added Njoroge. "We will
store and manage every KB of data in this continent. Apart from
automated data banking services, the company is also offering cloud
servers and managed co-location application hosting service."

The application comes at an annual
fee of KES 1,500 with no set-up cost
for the Home version and KES
45,000 for Business Premium
version

The company said it is targeting to
provide data banking services to every government, business, home and
individuals across Africa.

Last year, the company launched a data
recovery service focusing on mobile phone subscribers where lost data
including call logs and text messages could be retrieved.