Veritas and Cohesity partner in Dubai
We design data protection around a harder question than whether the backups run. It is whether recovery would finish inside the window your business can survive.
Our Veritas and Cohesity partnership
iConnect is a leading Veritas and Cohesity partner in Dubai, delivering enterprise data protection and cyber resilience for organisations across the Emirates. We handle architecture, migration, cyber vaulting and recovery assurance.
At enterprise scale the question is not whether backups run but whether a recovery would complete inside the window the business can survive. That is an architecture problem, and it is where most of the design work goes.
Veritas and Cohesity products we deploy
The portfolio spans NetBackup, DataProtect, cyber vaulting and identity recovery. Design follows the recovery window each workload class actually needs.
How we deliver Veritas and Cohesity
We establish tolerable data loss and downtime per workload class, then check whether current infrastructure could actually deliver it. It frequently cannot.
- Objectives agreed per workload class with the people who carry the cost of downtime
- Current infrastructure measured against those objectives instead of assumed adequate
- Data growth projected, since a window that holds today will not hold at next year scale
Storage tiering, retention and vaulting are designed around those objectives, balancing cost against the recovery window the business needs.
- Tiering designed so retention cost tracks the value of what is kept
- Network and storage throughput checked against the recovery window, not just capacity
- Design documented against the objectives, so it can be re-tested later
Migration from existing backup infrastructure runs in parallel rather than as a cutover, so protection is never interrupted.
- The parallel period runs long enough to cover a full retention cycle before the old platform goes
- Historical backups migrated or retained according to the obligation on them
- The old platform decommissioned only after recovery is proven on the new one
An isolated immutable copy is configured with separate credentials, so an attacker with domain access cannot reach the last line of recovery.
- Vault credentials kept entirely separate from domain administration, break-glass accounts included
- Immutability period set against how long an intrusion typically goes undetected
- Vault recovery tested from a clean environment, which is the scenario it exists for
Full recovery is tested at scale, including identity recovery, because restoring servers into a domain that no longer works is not a recovery.
- Identity infrastructure recovery tested first, since nothing else works without it
- Recovery timed at full scale, where contention changes the numbers
- Results documented and re-run after any significant infrastructure change
Job monitoring, capacity planning, retention review and periodic recovery testing are handled by our team in Dubai.
- Capacity tracked against growth so the recovery window does not quietly slip
- Recovery re-tested on a schedule and after major change
- Retention reviewed as obligation and cost change, with any reduction agreed in writing first
Veritas and Cohesity and UAE regulatory requirements
UAE Information Assurance Standards
Defined backup schedules, retention periods and proven restoration are all named in the IAS. At enterprise scale the evidence has to cover every workload class, which is a reporting design question as much as a technical one.
Central Bank of the UAE
Financial institutions face specific expectations for recovery capability and testing. Recovery objectives and test evidence are designed against them.
ADHICS
Abu Dhabi healthcare entities carry explicit availability requirements for clinical systems. Recovery is designed and tested to meet them.
UAE PDPL
Backups contain personal data and inherit its obligations. Retention, encryption and residency are configured against your lawful basis.
Why organisations choose iConnect
Scoped before it is quoted
We establish what you run and which obligations apply before recommending modules, so you are not paying for capability that duplicates something already in place.
Configured for your environment
Policy is built around the systems you run and the way your teams work, not left on vendor defaults.
Local delivery and support
Deployment and support come from our team in Dubai, working your hours and your change windows.
Documented for assessors
Configuration is mapped to the UAE framework you report against and documented, so an audit becomes a retrieval exercise instead of a reconstruction.
Integrated with your estate
The platform sits alongside your identity, endpoint and infrastructure systems. We handle those integrations as part of the deployment.
Reviewed on a schedule
Estates change and attacker technique moves. Policy is revisited at agreed intervals, not left as it was at go-live.
What our clients say
“Whenever an issue arises, iConnect is there immediately: quick, efficient and proactive in keeping everything running without disruptions. iConnect has become a crucial part of our operations.”
Head of IT Infrastructure and Network SecurityDragon OilFrequently asked questions
Yes. iConnect is a leading Veritas and Cohesity partner in Dubai and the UAE, handling licensing, implementation and ongoing management for organisations across the Emirates.
Cohesity acquired the Veritas data protection business, and NetBackup now sits alongside Cohesity DataProtect within the same portfolio. We work across both, and for existing NetBackup deployments that usually means evolution rather than replacement.
Not necessarily. NetBackup continues as a supported platform within the portfolio. We assess whether your current setup meets your recovery objectives and advise accordingly, because staying put is sometimes the right call.
A vault holds an isolated, immutable copy with separate credentials, so an attacker who reaches your production domain cannot destroy the last recovery point. If ransomware is in your risk register, it is the control that makes recovery survivable.
Yes. We run job monitoring, capacity planning, retention management and recovery testing as a managed service, handled by our team in Dubai.
Backup, retention, recovery testing and continuity capability appear in the UAE Information Assurance Standards, DESC ISR, ADHICS, PDPL and Central Bank expectations. We configure against whichever applies and produce the evidence.
Talk to our team about your requirement
We’re happy to answer any questions you may have and help you determine which of our services best fit your needs.
Our Value Proposition
- Tailored Solutions for Your Organization
- Unbiased Expertise
- Proven IT Competence
- Outcome-Driven Approach
- Proactive Problem-Solving
- Transparent Processes
What happens next?
We’ll arrange a call at your convenience.
We do a discovery and consulting meeting
We’ll prepare a detailed proposal tailored to your requirements.
