Durban — A black women-owned Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) IT company based in KwaZulu-Natal is adding a new suite of IT solutions to its offerings in collaboration with Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone’s Dube iConnect, a local cloud computing service provider.
Honeycomb Solution Architects is a women black-owned ICT company, which focuses on delivering 'wall-to-wall' solutions for businesses on a Microsoft platform, is set to offer back-up and disaster recovery services using VEEAM back-up and replication software, integrated with Dube iConnect’s cloud data storage platform.
Honeycomb was established in 2010 and has grown from delivering intranet and extranet collaboration portals using SharePoint to providing managed hosting services as well as backup and disaster recovery.
The company ventured into disaster recovery systems in 2019.
Honeycomb marketing director Maryann Govender said: “We saw a gap in the market, particularly the public sector, where organisations were failing audits as they did not have a data back up system to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster.”
The new line of business has provided significant growth for the company and led it to recently winning the Dube TradePort Special Economic Zones’ 'Best Software Innovation' client award for the IT reseller, which has delivered significant growth to Dube iConnect.
Dube TradePort Special Economic Zones within Dube iConnect key accounts manager Steve Johnson said: “By adding VEEAM as an alternative integrator on the Dube iConnect platform, for systems back-up and disaster recovery, we expect this growth to continue.”
In conjunction with Dreamtech Systems, a leader in designing and implementing digital solutions, Honeycomb will offer asset management, IOS and IoT systems that provide smart infrastructure for public and private organisations. By plugging into standard finance infrastructure, the solution can manage an organisation’s content, building and assets smartly.
Honeycomb is well-placed to take Dreamtech’s products to market as the sales team has the backing of the technical arm of Dreamtech and the infrastructure of Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone.
In the last eight years, Honeycomb has developed a successful track record for providing ICT solutions that are dependable, flexible, secured and accurate to assist customers in improving their productivity.
Govender added that all their design implementations are delivered using best practices and highly-skilled resources.
“Dube iConnect is a perfect partner. Being able to use Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone’s server rooms for cloud-based data storage, backup and disaster recovery has provided our clients with exceptional service. Dube iConnect is a well-known brand with proven up-time of 99.9%, and we have not had a client with downtime on their system,” Govender said, adding that the partnership had enabled their company to be sustainable.
Honeycomb’s client base includes organisations such as Grindrod Group, Motus Car Group, WIBC (Won’t it be Cool), Ithala, the Gauteng Partnership Fund, Human Sciences Research Council, Broadband Infraco, Public Investment Corporation, Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone, Mpumalanga Provincial Government, Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency, SEDA, IBASA, KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health and Health Systems Trust, to name a few.
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