BLACK WOMEN-OWNED IT SMME SEES BACK-UP AND DISASTER RECOVERY AS A GROWTH OPPORTUNITY

With cyber security front and centre for business, the KwaZulu-Natal-based Honeycomb Solution Architects 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, a woman black-owned IT 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.

The company ventured into disaster recovery systems in 2019. “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,” said Maryann Govender, Marketing Director of Honeycomb.

This 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.

“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,” said Dube TradePort Special Economic Zones’, Steve Johnson, Key Accounts Manager, within Dube iConnect.

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 simply 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 have the backing of the technical arm of Dreamtech and the infrastructure of Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone.

During the past eight years, Honeycomb has developed a successful track-record for providing ICT solutions that are dependable, flexible, secured and accurate to assist customers to improve their productivity.

“All our design implementations are delivered using best practices and highly-skilled resources,” said Maryann Govender

“Dube iConnect is a perfect partner. Being able to use Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone’s server rooms for cloud-based data storage, back-up 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,” she said, adding that the partnership had enabled their company to be sustainable.

The company’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