Assured Data Protection & KHIPU Networks partner

Assured Data Protection and KHIPU Networks have formed a partnership to provide enterprise grade backup and disaster recovery solutions to small and medium enterprise (SME) customers at an affordable price. Through the partnership, KHIPU Networks is now able to offer Rubrik's leading edge data protection platform as a managed service through Assured’s second site data replication infrastructure.

This partnership will strengthen KHIPU Networks’ already compelling offer to medium sized enterprises and public sector organisations across the UK and South Africa in sectors including education, retail, warehousing, transport, logistics, sports & entertainment venues, and others. Until now, true immutable backup and disaster recovery solutions, which can only be guaranteed through data replication at a second site, has been prohibitively expensive for many organisations. The managed services partnership with Assured changes that helping to protect customers’ business networks whilst reducing their cyber risk.

Assured, which was founded in the UK, is the largest Rubrik MSP (managed service provider), servicing the U.S. and other international markets. It is an award-winning MSP that focuses on providing innovative data management, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions. Assured works directly with customers, MSPs and resellers to ensure that businesses can protect and recover their critical data and operations in the event of outages, natural disasters, ransomware, and cyber-attacks, which continue to be a major threat to organisations of all sizes. Customers receive a fully managed Rubrik service from design and implementation through to recovery and daily proactive support.

Among the numerous benefits of the partnership for customers is that Rubrik's security cloud offering seamlessly integrates with Palo Alto Networks' XR platform - a key solution in KHIPU 's portfolio. This provides customers with an end-to-end security architecture that gives the highest levels of confidence in disaster recovery and data protection.

"Our customers were asking for robust immutable backup and recovery capabilities, but many solutions were out of reach due to cost and complexity," said Jade Smith, Director of Sales and Marketing at KHIPU Networks. "Partnering with Assured allows us to deliver the gold standard in data protection through Rubrik but delivered as an affordable managed service tailored to the needs of SMEs and public sector organisations."

“We are delighted to partner with KHIPU Networks to deliver the best of breed backup, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions as a service to its portfolio of solutions," said Sam Blackburn, UK Channel Director at Assured. “The partnership presents a win-win, creating new opportunities for KHIPU amongst its existing customers by complementing its existing security stack with backup and disaster recovery services and Assured gaining access to KHIPU Networks strong market presence in the public sector.”

An early pilot project that became the foundation for the partnership between Assured and KHIPU Networks is already delivering benefits for Bridgend College, a further education college in Wales. As a cost-conscious academic institution operating with a limited IT budget, Bridgend College knew their cyber-resiliency would be greatly enhanced with second site replication and disaster recovery but that it would be prohibitively expensive. Working together, Assured and KHIPU Networks implemented an innovative managed service solution that is providing the highest standard of ransomware protection to the college.