Modern Data Protection: Ensuring Business Continuity with Immutable Backup Solutions (Bottomline IT and Veeam)

Cyber threats and data breaches have risen drastically in South Africa in recent years, making superior data protection a non-negotiable requirement for successful and responsible businesses.
Bottomline IT’s immutable backup solutions – powered by Veeam – are market leaders in this regard, ensuring your organisation’s critical data remains secure from bad actors and forms a crucial part of your data backup strategy.
Take the proactive step towards safeguarding your data. Click here to explore how Bottomline IT’s Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solutions can ensure your business continuity.
Bottomline IT’s immutable backup solutions are designed to be tamper-proof against malicious parties. Once data is written, it cannot be altered or deleted, ensuring your backups remain completely secure.
With the rise of sophisticated ransomware attacks, the need for robust data protection strategies has never been more critical.
Immutable backups are a cornerstone of such strategies, providing an unalterable record of your data that malicious actors cannot compromise.
For local businesses, this means that even in the event of a cyber-attack, they can recover quickly without succumbing to ransom demands. Moreover, the implementation of immutable backup solutions demonstrates a commitment to data integrity and business continuity, bolstering customer trust and regulatory compliance.
In a landscape where cyber threats are continually evolving, investing in immutable backups is not just a defensive measure but a proactive step towards safeguarding your business’s future.
The critical need for immutable backups is underscored by the findings of Veeam 2024 Ransomware Trends Report.
According to the report, a staggering 96% of ransomware attacks targeted backup repositories. Alarmingly, only 11% of breached organisations were able to recover their data without paying a ransom.
This highlights the vulnerability of traditional backup methods and underscores the necessity for robust, immutable solutions to protect against such threats
We highlight below how Bottomline IT protects your business from becoming a statistic.
Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Bottomline IT is a certified Veeam Gold Partner and Value-Added Reseller, making it the best partner for your backup requirements.
Our expertise and partnership with Veeam ensure that you receive top-tier data protection solutions tailored to your business’s needs.
Bottomline IT offers two world-class Veeam-powered backup services to protect your critical operational data and ensure business continuity.
These Veeam-powered backup services are:
- Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS)
- Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS)
These services are designed to provide comprehensive protection and quick recovery, keeping your business resilient in the face of potential threats
With BaaS, Bottomline IT simplifies data protection for your company by managing complex backups on your behalf. The service will set up, monitor, and continually maintain your backups to provide business continuity – while ensuring immutable backups are at the core of the BaaS setup.
Bottomline IT’s DRaaS then employs immutable backups to provide your business with rapid, secure, and robust recovery in the event of a critical data loss event.

The Bottomline IT advantage
Bottomline IT management made a strategic decision to invest in immutable and out-of-the-box cloud backend systems, which help make backup data ransomware-proof. They are built to support Zero Trust Data Resilience security principles.
Bottomline IT recommends the 3-2-1-1-0 rule to all our customers (maintain at least three copies of business data).
- Store data on at least two different types of storage media.
- Keep one copy of the backups in an off-site location.
- Keep one copy of the media offline or air-gapped.
- Ensure all recoverability solutions have zero errors.

“With Bottomline IT BaaS and DRaaS solutions, you get fast backup and support for Instant Recovery and the highest levels of data protection,” says Bottomline IT CEO Biscay Mulaudzi.
“Our competent cybersecurity team monitors our environment 24/7 using top-tier security solutions,” says Mulaudzi.
Bottomline IT possesses all the in-house skills and competencies necessary to deliver these solutions to companies of all sizes.
This expertise makes the path to modern data protection seamless and straightforward for our customers. The evidence speaks for itself: Bottomline IT has an impressive 98% success rate in service delivery.
Ready to elevate your data protection strategy? Don’t wait for a disaster to expose your organisation’s vulnerabilities.
Click here to contact us today and learn more about how Bottomline IT can safeguard your business with our comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions.