Altonet
Internet Marketing in Johannesburg

Altonet is a Level 3 Contributor to BEE with a 110% BEE Procurement Recognition Level.
Altonet was established as IDWS, or Internet Design and Web Services, in 1998 by two young Internet entrepreneurs, as one of the first ISP’s.
Altonet is now run by Mandla and Gareth – who are both passionate about providing more bandwidth and better services to a country that has been starved of good connectivity.

It was established as an internet service provider, primarily to provide website design and hosting for small businesses. It also began to take on subscribers for its dial-up services for email and internet which became the backbone of the company. In early 2005, the company took on an outside investor, and the business was transferred into a newly registered company called Alto Network Communications (Pty) Ltd. The investor later sold its interest to a telecommunications company quoted on the ALTx of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Iron Mountain was then the largest storage company of customer information, both physical and digital, in the world. Altonet is now the lead value-added reseller of HP Autonomy LiveVault and Connected in Southern Africa, for which Altonet has a dedicated team of professionals to serve its customers. All major telecoms companies are represented in Teraco, where Altonet also peers with the internet exchange known as NAPAfrica. Altonet continues to provide inexpensive bandwidth to its customers as well as APN’s and data centre hosting services. Started in 1997, ALTONet has fast become one of South Africa's leading first tier Web Hosting and Data Networking companies offering world class Internet services on one of the most advanced dedicated network environments in South Africa. When employees leave the company, are you able to ensure the immediate return of every laptop? Has your company experienced a PC or laptop loss or theft in the last year? Combining proven disk and online technologies, ALTOVAULT provides a fully managed service in the private cloud that automates, streamlines, and reduces the complexity of server backup. Multiple integrity checks are completed on the transferred and stored data. Integrated and automatic processes allow our service to provide assured recoveries of backed up data. A globally available web-managed restore process which allows for data or even full system recoveries from anywhere, any time! Autonomy Connected Backup is a fully automatic, efficient endpoint data protection solution that frees up IT time and resources, while ensuring secure and reliable backups based on proven technology from the undisputed industry leader. Employees are increasingly more mobile, making the risk and costs associated with data loss for an organization that much more significant. Autonomy Connected Backup is the original, undisputed leading mobile backup solution. More than three million users rely on Autonomy Connected Backup for fully automatic, secure, efficient, and reliable backup and recovery of mission-critical data, no matter where it resides. Fully automated backup that works in the background while users work. Quick and easy recovery of lost files, whenever and wherever needed. Autonomy offers flexible deployment strategies for Autonomy Connected Backup, including on-premise, cloud-based, or a hybrid model that combines the best of on-premise and hosted approaches. Ability to quickly find relevant content for Backup and Recovery, Legal Hold, Efficient data discovery, and data analytics. With scheduled and automated backups, enterprise data is always available.