Computer Storage Services (Pty) Ltd is one of South Africa’s success stories having grown from a garage start-up into a highly successful and reputable corporate entity over the past eight years. The unrivalled market positioning, coupled with the niché supply and distribution rights of leading brands in data storage devices, arrays and back-up devices have secured a growing market share. The company has won awards for being SA’s most entrepreneurial company, according to CRF, and is home to the Minister’s Award for its technological patent developments in Data Recovery and Storage Technology.
Internal systems, designed by the company for tracking, processing and service delivery have allowed it to aggressively compete on price, efficiency and performance in the IT sector.
Today, CSS as a distributor supplies data storage solutions, and a base of products from Hard Disk Drives, external storage, RAID systems, and back-up solutions to enterprise-level DAS and SAN infrastructures.
The company is also the first in Africa to build a Category-5 Rated Biometric Data Vault – ‘CipherVault’ – designed to compete in the local market as the authority in providing the latest technology with regards to the storing and archival of company records and data, with the ability to monitor using SMS, web-based and email communication tools.
(1). Founded in 2000 (2). A staff complement of 83 (3). A joint venture with Klear ISP (4). ISO 9000, ISO 9002 and SABS accredited (5). Awards: SAP - Go for Growth Finalist, TT100 Minister’s Award for Technological Excellence, NPI - Gold Winner, Corporate Research Foundation - SA’s Most Promising
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STATISTICS/ DEMOGRAPHICS/ HISTORY
Year founded: 2000 Founding members: James Grcic Employees: 83 Branches: Midrand – Waterfall Office Park (H/O), Century City (Cape Town), Umhlanga (Durban), The Ridge Trade affiliations: Toshiba, CipherWave, CipherVault, LSI, Quantum, ATTO, PivotStor, AMI, Promise Technologies, Targus Memberships: CSSA, AITP
NATURE OF BUSINESS
Activity: Distributor of storage technology products Products/services offered: External storage devices, back-up solutions, email archiving, off-site data storage, data storage media, CipherVault, CipherStore, CipherArchive, CipherWave, data recovery, digital forensics and IT support Exports: USA, Europe, Brazil, African countries Joint ventures: Klear ISP
Financial year-end: 31 December Market share: Data Recovery (70%), Tape, Data Storage & Backup Technologies (23%), Hard Disk Drives (14%), Electronic & Off-Site Data Storage (16%), Digital Forensics (12%) Subsidiaries: UBU -IT Solutions, CipherWave Storage
Solutions, CSS Holdings Bank: Standard Bank Current customer base: 898 (active) / 1 528 (registered partners and resellers)
TRAINING & CSI
Training programmes: Storage Technology SIG, IT skills development, co-ventures with universities Empowerment initiatives: Staff incentive and ownership shares, internal programmes, continuous improvement programs and a ‘work @ home’ culture CSI initiatives: Skills development and entrepreneurship
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