Kupper

Cloud backup from German data centres

Headquartered in Leipzig, with further offices in Berlin and Chemnitz, KUPPER IT is a mid-sized firm. It describes its cloud services as hosted in Germany, in its own data centres. The company says it runs storage, backup, network and virtualisation environments for clients, and that it also looks after the applications those clients use and supports mobile working.

One-click backup and recovery after a disaster

Its backup offer is built on Veeam Cloud Connect, a product for sending backups to an off-site service. The company says a client can bring its data and applications back with one click and can start its own resources in the data centre directly. The disaster recovery offer covers a situation where a client's whole environment has to be restored after an incident. The company says it can restore that environment from its data centre or switch the client to a replica of it.

Network security in a single device

For network protection the company offers Firebox appliances, which combine a multi-level firewall with protection against malware, phishing and careless clicks by staff. The pitch is that one box can detect cyber threats and protect company data without a stack of separate tools.

Ticketing for vehicle reconditioning and dealers

The company also describes DataMotive, a ticketing tool that links a vehicle reconditioning operation with a car dealership. The company presents it as a way to run digital vehicle management with more efficiency and better quality in daily work. It is one of the more specialised products in the company's list, and it shows that the business supports sectors outside general office IT.

Virtualisation and the change in licences

The company describes itself as a Broadcom VCSP Premier Partner, which means it sells and supports virtualisation software from that vendor under a partnership. It offers consulting on the newer VMware licensing model, which many firms are being asked to adopt. The advice covers how the licence change affects a client's own environment.

Sustainable infrastructure and proactive monitoring

The company describes its infrastructure as sustainable and built to scale as a client's requirements grow. It also sells proactive monitoring, which it presents as a way to keep IT running without interruptions. Taken together, the services cover the three things the company names as its purpose: innovative and secure cloud solutions in German data centres, scalable and reliable IT infrastructure, and support for business processes that depend on IT.