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The State of SaaS Data Protection in 2024 report highlights critical gaps in safeguarding cloud-based apps and data. Key findings: 61% of breaches originate from SaaS apps, 90% of businesses can't recover encrypted SaaS data within an hour, and leaders may underestimate SaaS usage. Get actionable tips to minimize vulnerability and ensure rapid backup and restore of SaaS data to avoid disruption.
The State of SaaS Data Protection in 2024 report reveals critical gaps in how businesses safeguard their cloud-based applications and data. Our research highlights:
Key highlights:
- SaaS apps are a major vector for cyberattacks, with 61% of breaches originating via these platforms
- 90% of businesses cannot recover encrypted SaaS data within an hour, leading to costly downtime
- Business leaders may be unaware of the true scope of SaaS usage in their organizations, suggesting potential gaps in data protection
- Underestimating SaaS usage and lack proper protection for critical systems like SSO and IAM
- How the shared responsibility model places responsibility for data protection and recovery on customers
The report also provides tips for businesses seeking to minimize their vulnerability to cyberattacks—including the ability to backup and restore SaaS data rapidly to avoid business disruption. Download the full report to understand the evolving threat landscape and learn how to strengthen your organization's SaaS data protection strategy.
Ransomware is rampant. Malicious and negligent threats from inside and outside the company grow by the day. Unstructured data grows exponentially every second. Disasters are ever-present.
Luckily, Object First resolves all those concerns in a compact, simplistic, and cost-effective manner.
This paper will cover the biggest challenges for mid-enterprises and the available solutions in the market today. We will explain the importance of immutability to ransomware recovery and how backup storage should be secure, simple, and powerful, all without compromise. These reasons will uncover why Veeam users need to consider Ootbi, by Object First, as their primary storage target for backup and recovery.
In today's hybrid and remote working era, the importance of secure and convenient remote desktop access has become increasingly evident. As employees access sensitive data and systems from various locations and devices, organizations face heightened security risks. These risks include potential data breaches and cyber attacks, particularly when IT and DevOps teams use privileged accounts for remote infrastructure management.
In today's hybrid and remote working era, the importance of
secure and convenient remote desktop access has become increasingly evident. As
employees access sensitive data and systems from various locations and devices,
organizations face heightened security risks. These risks include potential
data breaches and cyber attacks, particularly when IT and DevOps teams use
privileged accounts for remote infrastructure management.
Since 2016, many users have turned to Apache Guacamole, a
community-driven open-source remote desktop platform that is free for anyone to
use and if your organization is technically savvy. The source code is publicly
available to compile and build.
However, if you’d like software that’s ready to deploy for
the enterprise and comes with responsive, professional support, Keeper
Connection Manager (KCM) can provide an affordable way to get all the benefits
of Apache Guacamole.
KCM provides users with a secure and reliable way to
remotely connect to their machines using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Virtual
Network Computing (VNC), Secure Shell (SSH) and other common protocols.
Moreover, KCM is backed by a responsive team, including the original creators
of Apache Guacamole, ensuring expert assistance is always available.
Let’s dive into the importance and challenges of remote
access below.
Fixing Slow Logons in EUC Environments - Get more from your digital experience monitoring and optimization solution.
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We surveyed over 8,000 people globally about what they say they do to ensure their cybersecurity and what they actually do. The study found people are grossly overconfident with a clear disconnect between actions and perception.
There is no getting away from the fact that passwords are still the cornerstone of modern cybersecurity practices. Despite decades of advice to users to always pick strong and unique passwords for each of their online accounts, Keeper Security found that only one-quarter of survey respondents actually do this. Many use repeat variations of the same password (34%) or still admit to using simple passwords to secure their online accounts (30%). Perhaps more worryingly, almost half (44%) of those who claimed all their passwords were well-managed also said they used repeated variations of them. One in five also admitted to knowing they’ve had at least one password involved in a data breach or available on the dark web. At first glance, these results may come as a shock, especially to those in the cybersecurity industry who have been touting these simple best practices for years. However, when considering more than one in three people (35%) globally admit to feeling overwhelmed when it comes to taking action to improve their cybersecurity, and one in ten admit to neglecting password management altogether, the results are much less of a surprise. Cybersecurity is a priority and cybersecurity solutions must also be. The threat landscape continues to expand as our lives shift from in-person banks, stores, and coffee shops to online banking, internet shopping, social networking, and everything in between. We have never been more dependent on our phones, computers, and connected devices, yet we are overconfident in our ability to protect them and willfully ignoring the actions we must take to do so. Perhaps we need more people to admit they’re as careless as a bull in a china shop, burying their heads in the sand like an ostrich or simply paralyzed with fear. Facing reality and coming to recognize what’s at stake, they can more confidently charge forward and take the necessary steps to protect their information, identities and online accounts.
Organizations running today’s modern Windows desktop/workspace environments, face challenges in dynamically delivering applications while minimizing base image management. Liquidware offers a comprehensive approach to help companies navigate each integral phase of a Windows Application Strategy. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of delivering applications in physical or cloud-based Windows workspaces and explores an “Assess, Prepare, Deploy” application strategy methodology.
Organizations running today’s modern Windows desktop/workspace environments, face challenges in dynamically delivering applications while minimizing base image management. Liquidware, with its solutions and expertise, offers a comprehensive approach to help companies navigate each integral phase of a Windows Application Strategy. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of delivering applications in physical or cloud-based Windows workspaces and explores an “Assess, Prepare, Deploy” application strategy methodology.
This white paper explores the development of a next-generation virtualized storage area network (vSAN) that provides high performance, data integrity, and cost-efficiency. Addressing the limitations of traditional VMware vSAN, it emphasizes the need for a solution that integrates seamlessly into a hypervisor, supports deduplication at the core, and offers robust data resiliency, including maintaining access during multiple hardware failures.
Building a superior Virtual Storage Area Network (vSAN) involves addressing traditional solutions' performance, resilience, and cost shortcomings. The next-generation vSAN, like VergeIO's VergeOS, integrates storage and hypervisor functionalities into a single efficient code base, matching the capabilities of dedicated storage arrays while maintaining the cost advantage of vSANs. Key improvements include: - Hypervisor Integration: Seamless integration for better performance and scalability.
- Cost Efficiency: Eliminates expensive server hardware and storage controllers.
- Built-in Deduplication: Core-level deduplication for minimal performance impact, maximum efficiency, and significant cost savings.
- Intelligent Hardware Failure Protection: Enhanced resilience with data copies across multiple nodes and drives.
- Advanced Snapshot Capabilities: Unlimited, efficient and independent snapshots.
The white paper "Build a Better vSAN" offers an in-depth analysis of these advancements, providing insights on improving vSAN performance, ensuring data integrity, and reducing storage costs. This approach sets a new standard in virtualized storage solutions, offering the reliability of dedicated storage arrays at vSAN prices.
When considering a cost savings analysis for desktop management, there are a few key reasons why an organization should embark on this process with Liquidware. Liquidware’s Digital Workspace Management suite covers all phases of desktop changes and management. This means that from initial setup and deployment to ongoing maintenance and updates, Liquidware’s solutions provide comprehensive coverage for all aspects of desktop management.
When considering a cost savings analysis for desktop management, there are a few key reasons why an organization should embark on this process with Liquidware. Liquidware’s Digital Workspace Management suite covers all phases of desktop changes and management. This means that from initial setup and deployment to ongoing maintenance and updates, Liquidware’s solutions provide comprehensive coverage for all aspects of desktop management. This can help to streamline the desktop delivery process and keep workspaces modern, which in turn can lead to increased productivity and competitiveness for the organization. A cost savings analysis with Liquidware helps keep budgets in check. In today’s rapidly evolving business climate, budgets are continually scrutinized in order to keep businesses competitive. By partnering with Liquidware and leveraging our solutions, organizations can realize a quick return on investment and potentially save costs in the long run. Liquidware’s custom Cost Analysis Report and Service provides a valuable resource for enterprise workspace environments. By analyzing and identifying areas where cost savings can be realized, organizations can make informed decisions about desktop management and ensure they are getting the most value out of their investment with Liquidware’s solutions.
Cyberattacks and ransomware target backup data in 93% of incidents, while existing Zero Trust frameworks often overlook backup and recovery security.
Zero Trust Data Resilience (ZTDR), developed by Numberline Security and Veeam, extends Zero Trust principles to data backup. The ZTDR framework includes segmentation, multiple data resilience zones, and immutable backup storage.
This white paper offers practical steps for implementing ZTDR, which improves data protection, reduces security risk
Cyberattacks and ransomware target backup data in 93% of incidents. Despite being primary targets for ransomware and data exfiltration, existing Zero Trust frameworks often overlook the security of data backup and recovery systems.
Zero Trust Data Resilience (ZTDR) is an innovative model that extends Zero Trust principles to data backup and recovery. Developed through a collaboration between Numberline Security and Veeam, ZTDR builds on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model (ZTMM).
This framework provides a practical guide for IT and security teams to improve data protection, reduce security risk, and enhance an organization's cyber resilience.
The primary principles of ZTDR include: - Segmentation — Separation of Backup Software and Backup Storage to enforce least-privilege access, as well as to minimize the attack surface and blast radius.
- Multiple data resilience zones or security domains to comply with the 3-2-1 Backup Rule and to ensure multi-layered security.
- Immutable Backup Storage to protect backup data from modifications and deletions. Zero Access to Root and OS, protecting against external attackers and compromised administrators, is a must-have as part of true immutability.
The white paper "Zero Trust and Enterprise Data Backup" details these principles and offers practical steps for implementation.
What You'll Learn:
- Security Enhancement: Core Zero Trust principles applied to data backup.
- Implementation: Best practices for infrastructure segmentation and resilience zones.
- Applications: Case studies on mitigating ransomware and cyber threats.
Download the white paper and start your journey towards Zero Trust Data Resilience.
What is AIOps & why does it matter for today’s enterprises? Gartner first coined the term AIOps in 2016 to describe an industry category for machine learning and analytics technology that enhances IT operations analytics. Learn how AIOps helps manage IT systems performance and improve customer experience.
AIOps is an umbrella term for underlying technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning that automate the determination and resolution of IT issues in modern, distributed IT environments. Here's a brief overview on how AIOps solution work:
- AIOps data usually comes from different MELT sources.
- Then, big data technologies aggregate and organize it, reduce noise, find patterns and isolate anomalies.
- The AIOps automated resolution system resolves known issues and hands over the complicated scenarios to IT teams.
Learn from this whitepaper on what are the Best Practices IT Teams and IT Leaders should follow in implementing AIOps in their enterprise.
Download this eBook today for practical insights on how Liquit can free valuable time for IT teams during and after the M&A process. You’ll learn how Liquit makes it easy for IT to deliver anywhere, any device, any group application access with user context. This ensures faster collaboration and productivity while freeing IT to tackle bigger IT integration projects.
You will also discover how you can:
Quickly Create adaptive and customized M&A workspace
IT teams can quickly set up a branded Liquit Workspace integrated with existing workspaces for a single user interface on the front end while enabling fast individual and group user customization via the back end. This enables you to meet changing user application and platform needs during and after M&A.
Quickly adapt to application user needs Take application provisioning, updating, and versioning from hours to minutes for hundreds of users, along with access to thousands of curated applications to deliver merging workforce productivity. Unify application access provisioning Eliminate the nightmare of access provisioning across varied on-premises and cloud environments for thousands of users in minutes rather than hours without uprooting native SSO and IAM that are constantly in flux during and after M&A. Dramatically reduce cost and time expenditures Eliminate collaboration and communication bottlenecks across on-premises, VDI platforms and clouds while freeing IT time for bigger M&A integration projects and lowering licensing and IT costs.
Privileged access management solutions are primarily designed to protect IT staff, executive leadership, and research and development staff, however, the accelerated digital transformation and ceaseless barrage of cyberthreats is making it increasingly important to protect all end-users within an organization.
Research finds PAM solutions are too complex with 68% of organizations paying for “wasted features” that are rarely used. A global survey of 400 IT and security executives conducted in January 2023, by Keeper Security in partnership with TrendCandy Research, reveals an overwhelming industry desire for Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions that are easy to deploy and maintain. The findings show that traditional PAM solutions are falling far short, largely because they are too complex to implement and use. An overwhelming 84% of IT leaders said they want to simplify their PAM solution in 2023. In the current high-risk security climate, it is imperative that all organizations secure their privileged credentials, privileged accounts, and privileged sessions to protect their crown jewels. However, many traditional PAM solutions are failing to provide their intended value outside of these core use cases, because deployment is either too complex, too cost-prohibitive, or both. In the era of remote work, organizations need agile identity security solutions that can protect against cybersecurity threat vectors by monitoring, detecting, and preventing unauthorized privileged access to critical resources. Keeper Security, a leading innovator in privileged access management, wanted to better understand how IT leaders are thinking about PAM, deploying their PAM solutions, and streamlining their PAM implementations. Keeper commissioned an independent research firm to survey 400 IT and data security leaders in North America and Europe about their strategies and plans for PAM in 2023.
AIOps is a landscape with creative solutions that vary in breadth and focus. For this Radar, EMA posed a series of questions to produce a charted use case summary of where each vendor is positioned. The questions also delivered a fresh look at how the industry has evolved, with detailed insights into design, deployment, cost, and overall effectiveness.
What’s in this white paper? Learn how AIOps industry has evolved and how CloudFabrix leads the industry in this Radar with its balance of product strength and cost-efficiency in change impact and capacity optimization, with strong support for all three use cases evaluated. Its platform continues to evolve and broaden its solid set of third-party integrations for monitoring, configuration, security, business impact, and other values.
The true cumulative cost of disruption to a modern digital business is massive. In a landscape of evolving threats, a comprehensive protection solution is more important than ever. But traditional backup solutions aren’t enough. Download this DRaaS 101 eBook now—it’s free!
The True Cost of Disruption is Massive. When measuring the total cost of downtime, immediate service disruption is only the beginning. In a landscape of evolving threats, comprehensive protection is more important than ever for modern digital businesses. Traditional backup solutions no longer meet the needs of today’s businesses for disaster recovery. However, not every organization has the means to build their own datacenter or hire full-time DR specialists. Even for those that can, there are still benefits to replacing the direct and indirect costs of secondary sites with a predictable monthly expense for a specialized service. For many organizations, DRaaS is an ideal solution. Our DRaaS 101 eBook describes in detail the benefits of DRaaS and the wide variety of models available through Zerto’s DRaaS providers—including an option that’s right for you.
Download this DRaaS 101 eBook now—it’s free!
Considerations, key requirements, and options for modern day IT shops
Most IT organizations put significant thought and research into choosing a backup application. However, most also assume you can simply put any kind of storage behind the backup application, and it will just work.
Backup storage is much more complex. While backup applications are usually top of mind, backup storage can often be overlooked and leads to poor performance, and overpaying for storage in the backup environment. In addition, the importance of utilizing backup storage as a key part of the recovery process especially after a ransomware attack. Being prepared for a recovery from a site disaster is also a big part of the equation.
Learn about the core requirements of backup storage, and review the pros and cons of the different approaches to backup storage.
A 451 Research survey examined the prevalence and effectiveness of shared data models and “digital twins” in network modeling from the perspectives of cloud, network, and security operations, examining how approaches to data sharing impacted each role and the interaction between these job functions.
The survey responses illustrate the effectiveness of digital twins and indicate the relative digital maturity of each job function, showing where there is potential to improve efficiency.
A 451 Research survey examined the prevalence and effectiveness of shared data models and “digital twins” in network modeling from the perspectives of cloud, network, and security operations, examining how approaches to data sharing impacted each role and the interaction between these job functions.
The survey responses illustrate the effectiveness of digital twins and indicate the relative digital maturity of each job function, showing where there is potential to improve efficiency.
Are you having trouble selling DR to Senior Management? This white paper gives you strategies for getting on the same page as senior management in implementing a DRaaS solution.
Are you having trouble selling DR to Senior Management? One reason relates to common attitudes towards risk. While people are risk averse and willing to pay to mitigate risk, they do so only when their own money is at stake. When company money is on the line, they’re far more willing to take risks. As a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research has said, “Organizations are willing to accept far more risk than I would have ever thought possible.”
Another reason for this challenge is that organizations, like yours, believe that they have a comprehensive DR program, when, in fact, their program is incomplete. Organizations often implement backup/recovery hardware and software, but fail to consider the processes necessary to implement a full solution.
This white paper gives you strategies for getting on the same page as senior management regarding DR. These strategies include:
• Striking the use of the term “disaster” from your vocabulary making sure management understands the ROI of IT Recovery
• Speaking about DR the right way—in terms of risk mitigation
• Pointing management towards a specific solution.
The work-from-anywhere world is upon us. To support the distributed workforce, organizations have deployed virtual applications and desktops, but still struggle to make the digital employee experience as good or better than the office experience. ControlUp surveyed over 450 end-user computing administrators and asked them about their most challenging problems in supporting remote work.
Today, millions of people across the globe are now working remotely. Though COVID-19 will soon be but a memory, this “work-from-anywhere” trend is here to stay. To support the distributed workforce, organizations have deployed virtual applications and desktops, but still struggle to make the employee experience as good or better than their experience in the office.
ControlUp surveyed over 450 end-user computing administrators and asked them about their most challenging problems in supporting remote work. From slow logons, application performance issues, network latency, unified communications issues, to slow sessions, this paper explains the top five survey findings and explores the ways ControlUp helps mitigate these problems.
Not only does Ransomware threaten the very way we do business it also forces us to adapt as rapidly as it grows in variety. This Gorilla guide includes rethinking your disaster recovery strategies to ensure you do not rely solely on backups Any potential threat to any piece of data must be detected the moment it appears, but if all else fails then we must be able to recover all data from any point in time – fast – if we are to keep pace of our attackers.
Rethink Your Ransomware Resilience and Disaster Recovery Strategy
Ransomware attacks are on the rise and the ability to detect when an attack has begun is critical to the ability to recover quickly. Attackers are constantly evolving their attack methods and traditional backup and recovery technologies simply can’t detect encryption quickly enough. This free Gorilla Guide outlines the dangers of ransomware, the impacts to organizations, and the need to detect attacks as they are occurring in real-time. This Gorilla Guide topics include: - The growing threat of ransomware
- Challenges of traditional data protection solutions
- Comparing solutions
- Real-time ransomware detection & recovery
- Zerto as an all-in-one CDP solution
Understanding how early detection can help mitigate a ransomware attack and allow recovery more quickly is vital to any ransomware resilience strategy. Don’t become a victim of delayed ransomware detection by relying on periodic backup solutions.
Download the free Gorilla Guide now to get informed!
This paper explains the challenges of moving important applications from traditional physical servers to virtualized environments, such as VMware vSphere in order to take advantage of key benefits such as configuration flexibility, data and application mobility, and efficient use of IT resources and highlights six key facts you should know about HA protection in VMware vSphere environments that can save you money.
Many large enterprises are moving important applications from traditional physical servers to virtualized environments, such as VMware vSphere in order to take advantage of key benefits such as configuration flexibility, data and application mobility, and efficient use of IT resources. Realizing these benefits with business critical applications, such as SQL Server or SAP can pose several challenges. Because these applications need high availability and disaster recovery protection, the move to a virtual environment can mean adding cost and complexity and limiting the use of important VMware features. This paper explains these challenges and highlights six key facts you should know about HA protection in VMware vSphere environments that can save you money.
This white paper walks through the steps to build a two-node failover cluster between two instances in the same region, but in different Zones, within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
If you are going to host SQL Server on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) you will want to make sure it is highly available with a SQL Failover Cluster. One of the best and most economical ways to do that is to build a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI). In this guide, we will walk through the steps to build a two-node failover cluster between two instances in the same region, but in different Zones, within the GCP.
This white paper explores how organizations can lower both CapEx and OpEx running high-availability applications in a Linux environment without sacrificing performance or security.
Using open source solutions can dramatically reduce capital expenditures, especially for software licensing fees. But most organizations also understand that open source software needs more “care and feeding” than commercial software—sometimes substantially more- potentially causing operating expenditures to increase well above any potential savings in CapEx. This white paper explores how organizations can lower both CapEx and OpEx running high-availability applications in a Linux environment without sacrificing performance or security.
This white paper is to help prevent cloud services sticker shock from occurring ever again and to help make your cloud investments more effective.
After signing up with a cloud service provider, you receive a bill that causes sticker shock. There are unexpected and seemingly excessive charges, and those responsible seem unable to explain how this could have happened. The situation is critical because the amount threatens to bust the budget unless cost-saving changes are made immediately. The objective of this white paper is to help prevent cloud services sticker shock from occurring ever again.
Increasingly, organizations are looking to move workloads into the cloud. The goal may be to leverage cloud resources for Dev/Test, or they may want to “lift and shift” an application to the cloud and run it natively. In order to enable these various cloud options, it is critical that organizations develop a multi-cloud data management strategy.
The primary goal of a multi-cloud data management strategy is to supply data, either via copying or moving data to the various multi-cloud use cases. A key enabler of this movement is the data management software applications. In theory, data protection applications can perform both of the copy and move functions. A key consideration is how the multi-cloud data management experience is unified. In most cases, data protection applications ignore the user experience of each cloud and use their proprietary interface as the unifying entity, which increases complexity. There are a variety of reasons organizations may want to leverage multiple clouds. The first use case is to use public cloud storage as a backup mirror to an on-premises data protection process. Using public cloud storage as a backup mirror enables the organization to automatically off-site data. It also sets up many of the more advanced use cases. Another use case is using the cloud for disaster recovery. Another use case is “Lift and Shift,” which means the organization wants to run the application in the cloud natively. Initial steps in the “lift and shift” use case are similar to Dev/Test, but now the workload is storing unique data in the cloud. Multi-cloud is a reality now for most organizations and managing the movement of data between these clouds is critical.
Multi-cloud environments are here to stay and will keep on growing in diversity, use cases, and, of course, size. Data growth is not stopping anytime soon, only making the problem more acute. HYCU has taken a very different approach from many traditional vendors by selectively delivering deeply integrated solutions to the platforms they protect, and is now moving to the next challenge of unification and simplification with Protégé, calling it a data protection-as-a-service platform.
There are a number of limitations today keeping
organizations from not only lifting and shifting from one cloud to another but
also migrating across clouds. Organizations need the flexibility to leverage
multiple clouds and move applications and workloads around freely, whether for
data reuse or for disaster recovery. This is where the HYCU Protégé platform
comes in. HYCU Protégé is positioned as a complete multi-cloud data protection
and disaster recovery-as-a-service solution. It includes a number of
capabilities that make it relevant and notable compared with other approaches
in the market:
- It was designed for multi-cloud environments,
with a “built-for-purpose” approach to each workload and environment,
leveraging APIs and platform expertise.
- It is designed as a one-to-many cross-cloud
disaster recovery topology rather than a one-to-one cloud or similarly limited
topology.
- It is designed for the IT generalist. It’s easy
to use, it includes dynamic provisioning on-premises and in the cloud, and it
can be deployed without impacting production systems. In other words, no need
to manually install hypervisors or agents.
- It is application-aware and will automatically
discover and configure applications. Additionally, it supports distributed
applications with shared storage.
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While VMware Horizon provides a powerful virtualization platform, technologies and capabilities like Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, authentication, DNS, network, group policy, and third-party apps must work seamlessly to provide a great digital employee experience. This eBook will focus on improving the logon duration for EUC and VDI deployments.
While VMware Horizon provides a powerful virtualization platform, technologies and capabilities like Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, authentication, DNS, network, group policy, and third-party apps must work seamlessly to provide a great digital employee experience. This eBook will focus on improving the logon duration for EUC and VDI deployments. And view this solution page for more information.
Businesses are adopting clouds due to the benefits of economies of scale, agility, and a self-service model. However, this transformation is also driving fundamental changes in how enterprises operate, putting tremendous pressure on IT Operational teams. Learn how the AIOps Operating model ties the Operational and Developmental functions to a profit center, with its direct impact on focusing on enabling and accelerating the business.
What’s in this white paper?
AIOps Operating Model serves 3 high-level objectives.
- Why AIOps Operating Model?
- Current Operational Domains fall short!
- How CloudFabrix Enables AIOps Operating Model
- Learn how AIOps Empower Different Personas
- Optimize Resources with Dashboards and Workflow automation
- Use Cases of CloudFabrix’s Data-centric AIOps
- AIOps Operating Model & Economic Benefits
Download this whitepaper today for insights on how to achieve an efficient IT operation model that supports end users no matter where they are. You’ll learn about the eight value-added areas and strategic trends that are the keys to achieving anywhere operations.
Learn how you can: - Deliver the user experience on any device and make the process simple for users and IT alike.
- Lighten the load for your IT team by creating a unified workspace for a simple environment that’s easier and faster to manage.
- Automate cleanup of end users’ workspaces and synchronize applications with the latest versions, all without disrupting end-user productivity.
- Enable anywhere operations using your preferred cloud — on-premises, public, or hybrid.
A comparison of two backup storage approaches: using primary disk storage versus inline deduplication appliances. Uncover how to get the best of both worlds.
A lot of time goes into picking a backup application such as Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault, HYCU, Oracle RMAN Direct, and dozens of others. However, rarely does anyone think about or truly understand the impact of the backup storage that sits behind these backup application in regards to cost, performance, scalability, and IT staff time.
Learn when it makes sense to use primary storage disk for backup, what value deduplication appliances offer, and uncover how to find the benefits of both approaches in a single backup storage solution.
Cloud observability is the process of gaining comprehensive insights into the performance, health, and state of cloud-based applications and infrastructure through monitoring, metrics, tracing, logging, and other telemetry data. It enables organizations to proactively detect, understand, and resolve issues to ensure optimal application performance and user experience.
This GigaOm Radar report examines 21 of the top cloud observability solutions and compares offerings against the capabilities (table stakes, key features, and emerging features) and nonfunctional requirements (business criteria) outlined in the companion Key Criteria report. Together, these reports provide an overview of the market, identify leading cloud observability offerings, and help decision-makers evaluate these solutions so they can make a more informed investment decision.
In this guide, we provide insights into the challenges, needs, strategies, and available solutions for data protection, especially in modern, digital-centric environments. We explain which benefits and efficiencies Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, delivers and how it compares to other business continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) technologies. Within this guide, we want to provide organizations with the right information to choose the best data protection solution for their needs.
In this guide you will learn about Disaster Recovery planning with Zerto and its impact on business continuity.
In today’s always-on, information-driven business environment, business continuity depends completely on IT infrastructures that are up and running 24/7. Being prepared for any data related disaster – whether natural or man-made – is key to avoiding costly downtime and data loss. - The cost and business impact of downtime and data loss can be immense
- See how to greatly mitigate downtime and data loss with proper DR planning, while achieving RTO’s of minutes and RPO’s of seconds
- Data loss is not only caused by natural disasters, power outages, hardware failure and user errors, but more and more by man-made disasters such as software problems and cyber security attacks
- Zerto’s DR solutions are applicable for both on-premise and cloud (DRaaS) virtual environments
- Having a plan and process in place will help you mitigate the impact of an outage on your business Download this guide to gain insights into the challenges, needs, strategies, and solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity, especially in modern, virtualized environments and the public cloud.
In three easy steps to an easy and successful implementation.
Deploying Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD) can be complex. Recast Software provides the necessary flexibility in your end-to-end AVD deployment. This document has been created to describe our approach and recommendations to an easy and successful
deployment of your AVD environment.
Most enterprises are moving to hybrid or multi-cloud architectures. Operating these environments requires IT teams to rethink their approach to monitoring and reporting on applications and environments. Cloud services differ in functions which makes achieving and maintaining a consistent configuration difficult but not impossible. A significant portion of companies plan to utilize third-party products, reducing some of the variability in feature capabilities across clouds to simplify management.
The author of this Pathfinder report is Mike Fratto, a Senior Research Analyst on the Applied Infrastructure & DevOps team at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Pathfinder reports navigate decision-makers through the issues surrounding a specific technology or business case, explore the business value of adoption, and recommend the range of considerations and concrete next steps in the decision-making process.
This report explores the following topics:
- the growth of already commonplace cloud usage for mission-critical applications
- the importance of cloud governance
- the top cloud security concerns for enterprises
- the adoption of third-party tools for cloud management
- the steps IT teams should take to make their cloud environments more secure and reliable
The two big challenges in deploying and growing cloud usage are cost and security. Shadow IT has contributed to those challenges by causing overspending and exposing organizations to significant security risks. So, how should enterprises address both hybrid (on-premises and in the cloud) and multi-cloud challenges? This research reviews new technologies and approaches that can improve visibility for IT teams, enable security policies across the entire network, and manage costs more effectively.
Vladimir Galabov, Director, Cloud and Data Center Research, and Rik Turner, Principal Analyst, Emerging Technologies, are the co-authors of this eBook from Omdia, a data, research, and consulting business that offers expert analysis and strategic insight to empower decision-making surrounding new technologies.
This eBook covers the following topics:
- the current landscape of cloud computing, including the BIG problems
- the advantages of using a multi-cloud approach
- the dangers of shadow IT, including billing surprises and security breaches
- the move of mission-critical applications to the cloud
- the considerations regarding cloud security, including recommendations for IT teams
Find the “just right” cloud for your business. For this white paper, we will focus on existing applications (vs. new application services) that require high levels of performance and security, but that also enable customers to meet specific cost expectations.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of cloud services available to organizations. In many cases, the capabilities of the service, adjusted for cost, matter more to decision makers than the infrastructure itself. As an example, the underlying infrastructure that supports common business software such as Salesforce, Microsoft Office 365, is rarely scrutinized, as the products are trusted solely on the brand’s reputation.
Choosing the right cloud service for your organization, or for your target customer if you are a managed service provider, can be time consuming and effort intensive. For this paper, we will focus on existing applications (vs. new application services) that require high levels of performance and security, but that also enable customers to meet specific cost expectations. Topics covered include:
• Global access and availability
• Cloud management
• Application performance
• Security and compliance
Downtime is not an option, therefore having a business continuity plan in place is crucial. Download this white paper to explore a step-by-step approach to building a business continuity plan that will keep your organization up and running no matter the threat.
Whether you’re responsible for keeping your IT systems and data online or you have a vested interest in making sure your team can keep your organization running, you know that business continuity is critical. But how do you get started building a business continuity or disaster recovery plan?
In this white paper, we’ll provide you with a step-by-step approach to get started. We’ll show you how to work with the unique needs of your organization and give you a blueprint for addressing business priorities and requirements. Download this DR guide now and learn the five key steps that will help you drive your business continuity planning.
Download this whitepaper to learn more about how you can prevent, or mitigate, these common Microsoft 365 data threats: external threats like ransomware, malicious insiders, user-errors, accidental keystrokes, and retention policy gaps.
From corporate contacts to sensitive messages and attachments, email systems at all companies contain some of the most important data needed to keep business running and successful. At the same time, your office productivity suite of documents, notes, and spreadsheets created by your employees is equally vital.
Unfortunately, in both cases, protecting that data is increasingly challenging. Microsoft provides what some describe as marginal efforts to protect and backup data, leaving the majority of the burden on the customer.
Download this white paper to learn more about how you can prevent, or mitigate, these common Microsoft 365 data threats:
• External threats like ransomware
• Malicious insiders
• User-errors and accidental keystrokes
• Retention policy gaps and confusion
What Can IT Leaders Do to Counter Endpoint Cost Inflation?
Inflation and supply chain challenges have resulted in device costs increasing up to 20% since the start of 2021, placing significant pressure on budgets for end-user computing. This research identifies three key actions IT leaders must take when faced with extreme budget pressures.
What Can IT Leaders Do to Counter Endpoint Cost Inflation?
"Inflation and supply chain challenges have resulted in device costs increasing up to 20% since the start of 2021, placing significant pressure on budgets for end-user computing. This research identifies three key actions IT leaders must take when faced with extreme budget pressures."
How can IT Leaders counter this endpoint inflation? Recommendations include producing a TCO report on endpoint devices and refreshing, not replacing old hardware.
This white paper explores the many benefits of leveraging the capabilities of Liquit and Microsoft Intune by explaining the potential they hold in shaping the future of the modern Workspace.
This white paper explores the many benefits of leveraging the capabilities of Liquit and Microsoft Intune by explaining the potential they hold in shaping the future of the modern Workspace.
In this eBook, the author describes in great detail what is needed to prepare the EC2 infrastructure to support business-critical applications clustered with Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC).
AWS guarantees that if two or more instances are deployed in different availability zones (AZs), at least one of those instances will have external connectivity. The SLA does not guarantee that the application running inside the instance will be available. To address availability of the application, users will need to take additional steps to monitor the application and recover it should a failure occur.
In this eBook, the author describes in great detail what is needed to prepare the EC2 infrastructure to support business-critical applications clustered with Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). In order to qualify for the 99.99 percent availability, instances must be deployed across multiple AZs. Readers will learn how to design EC2 infrastructure to support cross-AZ failover clustering.
The desire to be resilient is becoming more prevalent across all corporations. Ransomware attacks have been rising over the past years, reaching a point where an attack occurs every 11 seconds. Because of this vulnerability, Mirazon, like many, needed to find an immutable solution that is also simple to operate and affordable for their customers.
This case study will cover the story of how Ootbi by Object First helped Mirazon cope with its business challenges. Ransomware attacks have been rising over the past years, reaching a point where an attack occurs every 11 seconds. This staggering statistic has proven that it is not a case of if but when, causing many corporations to seek resiliency. Furthermore, backups are now the primary target for ransomware. To address this vulnerability, Mirazon needed to properly secure not only their primary data, but also their backup data as well.
A network digital twin is a digital model of the network that makes network data accessible and actionable to ensure the network behaves as expected and is secure. NetOps, SecOps, and CloudOps teams use this data to drastically reduce time spent diagnosing problems, leading to a more agile, reliable, and secure network. Read this eBook for more details on the financial return on aligning your team, simplifying troubleshooting, and avoiding outages by using a network digital twin.
Contents - What is a network digital twin?
- Outages are expensive and preventable
- A network digital twin saves time and money
- Time is money
- General use cases
- Workflow automation
- Inventory management
- Automated compliance/audit
- Change management
- Network security use cases
- Security posture verification
- Incident response
- Vulnerability management
- Multi-cloud use cases
- Continuous multi-cloud security audit
- Service assurance
- End-to-end visibility
- Network operations use cases
- Path verification/analysis
- Outage prevention
- Troubleshooting
This guide has been authored by experts at Liquidware in order to provide information and guidance regarding some of the frequently asked questions customers encounter while exploring the FlexApp™ Layering technology.
This guide has been authored by experts at Liquidware in order to provide information and guidance regarding some of the frequently asked questions customers encounter while exploring the FlexApp™ Layering technology. FlexApp Application Layering is an integrated part of ProfileUnity that enables applications to be virtualized in such an innate way that they look native to the Windows operating system (OS) and other applications. FlexApp is a perfect complement to ProfileUnity, which provides full user environment management (UEM) with advanced features such as Application Rights Management and context-aware settings for printer and policy management. Although FlexApp is cost effectively licensed with ProfileUnity™, the solution can be licensed separately if your organization has already standardized on an alternative User Environment Management solution. Application Layering leads to much higher rates of compatibility than previous technologies which used Application Isolation to virtualize applications. Once applications have been packaged for layering, they are containerized on virtual hard disks (VHDXs) or virtual machine disks (VMDKs). They can be centrally assigned to users on a machine-level or context-aware basis. FlexApp applications are compatible with virtual, physical and multi-session Windows® environments such as VMware® Horizon View, Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops and Microsoft® AVD. This whitepaper provides an overview of FlexApp concepts and ways in which FlexApp can serve as a cornerstone in an application delivery strategy. FlexApp greatly reduces desktop administration overhead by dramatically reducing the need for traditional software distribution and through a reduction in the number of base images needed to support users. FlexApp is a powerful ally of VDI users and administrators. This paper compares Liquidware solutions to VMware App Volumes version 4 and its current updates through the last revision of this document.
This IDC Solution Brief delved deep into the experiences of Forward Networks’ customers who leverage the digital twin technology. The findings revealed indisputable improvements in network stability, reliability, team productivity, and operational efficiencies. These game-changing benefits, amounting to $14.2 million averaged annually, are derived from measurable enhancements in network performance and productivity.
This IDC Solution Brief delved deep into the experiences of Forward Networks’ customers who leverage the digital twin technology. The findings revealed indisputable improvements in network stability, reliability, team productivity, and operational efficiencies. These game-changing benefits, amounting to $14.2 million averaged annually, are derived from measurable enhancements in network performance and productivity.
For Centerbase, a software as a service (SaaS) platform serving high-performing legal practices, nothing is more important than security and performance. While they run a robust, replicated, on-premises data storage system, they found that they could not meet their desired recovery time objectives (RTO) if they faced a disaster that took out both their production and disaster recovery (DR) sites.
The combination of Backblaze B2, Veeam, and Ootbi simplified and strengthened Centerbase’s storage and backup architecture. Even with their primary DR center and their extensive NAS storage arrays, they would not have been able to rebuild their infrastructure fast enough to limit business impact. Now, if their primary DR site is affected by ransomware or natural disaster, they can turn to their Backblaze B2 backups to quickly restore data and meet RTO requirements
Ransomware attacks are expected to cost over $20 billion in 2023. Learn what you can do to avoid being a victim of a ransomware attack. In this guide you discover: •The Current State of Ransomware, •The Ransomware Economy, • How Ransomware Attacks Unfold, •Protecting Your Business From Ransomware
In 2021, the FBI reported 3,729 ransomware complaints, totaling over $49 million in losses. Predictions suggest attacks will occur every second by 2031, up from every 11 seconds in 2021. High-profile cases like the $70 million demand from REvil underscore the growing risk. This ebook explores the current state of ransomware, detailing how attacks happen and how businesses can protect themselves. While major incidents grab headlines, unreported attacks frequently devastate small and medium-sized businesses, highlighting the critical need for robust cybersecurity measures.
Robust data protection is critical amid rising ransomware threats. Business resilience requires the ability to adapt and respond to disruptions while maintaining operations. Addressing data protection challenges and leveraging cloud solutions are essential. Learn about how the collaboration between Veeam and Backblaze ensures secure, immutable, and cost-effective data recovery, empowering organizations to safeguard critical assets and ensure business continuity in the face of evolving threats.
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face an unprecedented array of threats that underscore the critical importance of business resilience. An alarming rise in ransomware attacks has revealed that many organizations have inadequate data protection strategies and disaster recovery plans. To remain resilient, businesses must be proactive in adopting robust strategies that prioritize protection and recovery. This comprehensive guide explains the various facets of business resilience, including data protection and disaster recovery challenges. It also explores how the cloud has become an important tool for a more robust and agile response to cyberthreats.
This comprehensive guide outlines a structured process for transitioning from VMware to VergeOS. It covers evaluating alternatives, planning the migration, execution, and post-migration optimization. Learn how to achieve cost savings, extend hardware life, and improve ransomware resiliency without disrupting operations. Download now to access detailed migration plans and a thorough VMware exit checklist. Get the insights you need for a smooth and efficient virtualization transition.
Discover the Essential Guide to VMware Migration
Transitioning from VMware to VergeOS requires careful planning to minimize disruption. Our guide provides a structured process for a smooth migration:
Key Sections of the Guide
1. Evaluation of Alternatives
- Research and Trial: Identify and test virtualization solutions for performance, compatibility, features, and support.
- Cost-Benefit Analysis: Compare costs and calculate ROI to evaluate benefits over VMware.
2. Planning the Migration
- Detailed Plan: Outline timelines, resource allocation, and risk management.
- Infrastructure Preparation: Ensure hardware and network compatibility
3. Execution and Post-Migration
- Pilot Migration: Start with non-critical systems to test the process.
- Full-Scale Migration: Schedule during low-usage periods, back up data, and execute the migration.
- Post-Migration Testing: Verify functional and performance standards in the new environment.
4. Phased Migration Process
- Backup/DR: Use VergeOS for cost-effective backup and disaster recovery of the VMware environment.
- NAS Replacement: Replace Network Attached Storage with VergeOS.
- Testing: Test workloads for compatibility and performance.
- Conversion: Incrementally convert virtual machines, starting with low-priority workloads.
Download the full guide now to optimize your virtualization strategy.
This solution brief outlines how IGEL Secure Endpoint OS paired with Island, the Enterprise Browser, offers a unique endpoint solution for the modern enterprise.
The shift to SaaS and cloud computing allows enterprises
to lower infrastructure costs and maintenance while improving efficiency and
capabilities through scalable cloud data platforms. This move can also enhance
productivity and workflow flexibility, enabling remote access to SaaS
applications and data. However, it often leads to diversified endpoint
operating systems, emphasizing the need for web browser access to SaaS
applications. The adoption of IGEL's Secure Endpoint OS and Island's Enterprise
Browser presents a modern solution for enterprises to optimize their digital
workspaces and fully embrace this transformation.
Join AI and Networking experts Howard Holton from GigaOm and Nikhil Handigol from Forward Networks for an insightful webinar exploring the symbiotic relationship between AI and digital twins. Gain essential insights to navigate the evolving technological landscape as we discuss how generative AI is set to revolutionize network management by enhancing the capabilities of network digital twins. Delve into the potential "dark side" of AI that IT leadership should be vigilant about. Don't miss out o
Join AI and Networking experts Howard Holton from GigaOm and Nikhil Handigol from Forward Networks for an insightful webinar exploring the symbiotic relationship between AI and digital twins. Gain essential insights to navigate the evolving technological landscape as we discuss how generative AI is set to revolutionize network management by enhancing the capabilities of network digital twins. Delve into the potential "dark side" of AI that IT leadership should be vigilant about. Don't miss out on this comprehensive discussion that will shape your understanding of AI-enabled digital twins and their impact on network management.
Let’s face it: your network is a complex, hairy beast. It eats protocols for breakfast, consumes configs for lunch, and sometimes the state outputs from its packet dinner can be… unpleasant.
Let’s face it: your network is a complex, hairy beast. It eats protocols for breakfast, consumes configs for lunch, and sometimes the state outputs from its packet dinner can be… unpleasant.
If your network beast includes hardware and software from dozens of vendors, spread across multiple data centers and clouds, and runs mission-critical applications with challenging security requirements… then join Brandon Heller, Forward Networks CTO and Co-founder, for this 30-min session/demo featuring real-life examples from large “beastly” enterprise networks that found a path to reliability, agility, and security.
In this insightful fireside chat on digital resilience and elevating data protection best practices industry experts Dan Angst, Mark Nijmeijer, and Harmail Singh Chatha share key strategies to strengthen your data protection and recovery efforts.
Learn how to boost your organization’s resilience, leverage cutting-edge tools, and ensure your business is prepared for any data challenges that come your way.
In today's evolving threat landscape, organizations face significant challenges in securing their data and maintaining business continuity. Ransomware attacks in particular, pose a major risk that requires a robust, comprehensive defense strategy. In this webinar, experts from HYCU, Nutanix, and Nutanix IT discuss best practices and solutions for achieving resilience, security, and recoverability. Learn how to boost your organization’s resilience, leverage cutting-edge tools, and ensure your business is prepared for any data challenges that come your way. Attendees will come away with a playbook for building a tested business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan. Key topics include:
- Implementing the NIST Cybersecurity Framework for a robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan.
- Utilizing a multi-layered strategy to guarantee prompt recovery.
- Actionable best practices and insights from the Nutanix IT team.
- The importance of testing your recovery readiness to maintain business continuity.
For the third time running, HYCU has been named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions. The report provides an in-depth analysis of the enterprise backup and recovery market and highlights HYCU's innovative approach to data protection and disaster recovery. HYCU believes this recognition is due to its cutting-edge solution, R-Cloud, which secures and recovers data across various environments, from SaaS to on-premises to multi-cloud, h
HYCU® is named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions for the 3rd time! Explore the Gartner 2024 Magic Quadrant report for a comprehensive analysis of the enterprise backup and recovery market and discover why HYCU is again positioned as a Visionary. HYCU believes their innovative approach to data protection and disaster recovery has earned them this recognition. Learn how HYCU is helping transform data protection with R-Cloud, designed to secure, and recover your data across all environments - from SaaS to on-premises to multi-cloud. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights are reserved. Previous titles include Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions (2022 - 2023). Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
A Q&A that answers what data deduplication is and why it is used for backup storage, what effects it has on backup and restore performance, what the different types of data deduplication are, and what can impact the amount of data deduplication that you get.
There are many misconceptions about data deduplication, and making decisions based on those misconceptions can produce undesirable (and unplanned) results. For instance, deployment of the wrong type of deduplication typically results in:
• Excessively high disk usage and using as much as three times the bandwidth for offsite replication, and the resulting impact on short and long-term costs
• Slower backup storage ingest due to inline compute-intensive data deduplication that greatly slows backups down and expands the backup window
• Slower restores, VM boots, and tape copies that can take hours or even days due to the time-consuming rehydration of deduplicated data
• Backup windows that continue to expand with data growth
Choosing a Tiered Backup Storage solution will have a major impact on the cost and performance of your backup environment for the next three to five years because backups are written to a disk-cache Landing Zone for fastest backup performance, and then tiered to a deduplicated data repository to reduce storage and resulting storage costs.
IGEL’s industry leadership has made it an integral part of Coretek’s on-premises VDI offering. This offering uses Nutanix in combination with Citrix VDI to deliver secure end-user access to virtual applications and desktops.
A defense contractor with whom Coretek has had a long-standing relationship spanning nearly two decades had attempted to migrate to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment twice with another technology services provider without success. Impressed by Coretek’s success with VDI implementations in healthcare and other industries, the defense contractor turned to the solution provider for help. Coretek's VDI offering has evolved significantly over the years to better support today's power users. Due to its industry leadership, IGEL OS is currently the standard for new customer VDI rollouts at Coretek. One of the things that the Coretek team appreciates most about IGEL OS is its high level of configurability, as well as IGEL’s commitment to staying current with trends in the EUC space by aligning IGEL OS with a broad ecosystem of leading vendors, including those providing unified communications and collaboration (UCC) applications and tools. In this particular case, IGEL OS, in combination with new Dell endpoint hardware, enabled Coretek to restore performance following a significant shift in the customer’s usage of its UCC tools.
The customer is currently utilizing high-performance VDI desktops, leveraging IGEL OS at the endpoint, to design defense equipment and support connectivity and collaboration through video conferencing. IGEL’s Preventative Security Model™ supports Zero Trust security approaches and partners with leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) vendors to complement and reinforce these solutions from a security standpoint.
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IGEL Preventative Security Model™ delivers a holistic solution for a secure digital workspace in unison with leading partner technologies. This infographic demonstrates how with IGEL OS at its core, the Preventative Security Model removes the endpoint vulnerabilities that are frequently exploited by bad actors, dramatically reducing the risk of cyberattacks and consequent disruption to business operations.
An independent review of ExaGrid’s newest and largest Tiered Backup Storage appliance: the ExaGrid EX189.
Enterprises facing rapidly growing backup demands and ever shrinking windows of opportunity need to rethink their data protection strategies. ExaGrid is the ideal solution as the Tiered Backup Storage systems deliver a smart scale-out solution, and the latest EX189 model takes density into the stratosphere with an industry-leading 12PB of raw backup capacity in 64U of rack space. ExaGrid’s EX appliances are a natural choice for enterprise data backup and disaster recovery as they deliver an easily deployed, highly flexible and high performing scale-out storage solution. Their innovative data protection features keep ransomware attacks at bay and ExaGrid’s flagship EX189 appliance offers a huge backup capacity that defies belief.
TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group reviewed ExaGrid’s Retention Time-Lock (RTL) for Ransomware Recovery solution. We focused on the benefits RTL offers to organizations in terms of their readiness for ransomware attacks and security policies for data protection and recovery, including immutability (i.e., prevention of any deletion or alteration of volume, application, or database data).
Ransomware attacks pose a significant threat to organizations, yet in 2023, most organizations were not
adequately prepared to deal with them. Enterprise Strategy Group research has shown a considerable gap between the average organization's preparedness level and that of the best-prepared ones. A closer look at readiness, prevention, detection/response, recovery, and business continuity reveals that organizations excel in prevention and response strategies but still lag in recovery strategies.
ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage, with its front-end disk-cache Landing Zone and separate Repository
Tier, contains all retention data. All backups are written directly to the network-facing ExaGrid disk-cache Landing Zone, which provides fast backup performance, and the most recent backups are kept in their full undeduplicated form for fast restores. In addition, ExaGrid’s immutability and RTL approach ensures recovery from a ransomware attack.
If your organization is looking to increase its ransomware readiness, prevention, detection/response, and recovery, Enterprise Strategy Group recommends looking closely at the ExaGrid RTL for Ransomware Recovery solution.
HYCU offers robust data protection for Microsoft Entra ID, enhancing security for identity and access management. Key features highlighted in the 3-minute demo include enhanced data protection, streamlined management, and compliance assurance tools. The demo provides valuable insights for both new and existing HYCU users to optimize their data protection strategy and elevate their security posture.
Your organization's identity and access management systems hold the keys to your IT landscape, so protecting them is crucial to maintaining operational security and data integrity. Manual backups and outdated scripts are slow and expensive. You need a solution that automates your backups and helps you recover data within minutes. HYCU offers robust data protection for Microsoft Entra ID, enhancing security for identity and access management. Key Highlights of the 3-Minute Demo:
- One-click restore of critical configurations: Whether accidentally deleted or breached, you’ll se how you can restore your entire Microsoft Entra ID tenant or single users, groups, roles, custom domains, app registrations, and more.
- Safe, ransomware-proof copies. Learn how to store off-site copies in safe, immutable public cloud storage targets owned by you and only accessible to you – no one else.
- Autopilot backups with ‘backup assurance’. Find out how to assign flexible ‘set and forget’ backup policies that run 24/7 with logging and notifications. Save time, resources, and risk by avoiding manual or scripted exports.
Watch this quick demo and take the first step towards a more secure, streamlined identity management solution.
GigaOm recognizes HYCU as a leader in cloud-native data protection for its seamless coverage across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and VMware. HYCU simplifies data management with enterprise-grade protection for diverse multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Key strengths include comprehensive on-prem, cloud, and SaaS protection, broad workload support, rapid AI-powered innovation, advanced data visualization with R-Graph, and robust security and recovery capabilities.
GigaOm’s report
spotlights HYCU’s seamless data protection and recovery across AWS, Google
Cloud, Azure, and VMware. Recognized for its robust multi-cloud and hybrid
cloud support, HYCU simplifies data management and ensures scalable,
enterprise-grade protection across diverse cloud environments.
Cloud-Native Data
Protection: Simplify, Secure, and Scale Your Cloud Journey
Read the report to
learn why features like these put HYCU in the leaders’ circle of cloud-native
data protection:
- Comprehensive data protection: Covering on-premises, cloud, and SaaS
environments - crucial for today's diverse IT landscapes
- Broad workload support: Protecting data across major cloud
providers, SaaS applications, and development tools
- Rapid innovation: AI-powered, low-code development for
quickly extending protection to new data sources, significantly outpacing
traditional providers
- Advanced visualization: HYCU R-Graph for data estate discovery
and visualization, enhancing compliance and identifying protection gaps
- Robust security and recovery: "Extensive encryption
capabilities" and "fine-grained recoverability" for
enhanced data security and efficient restoration
Technical Marketing Manager, and former IT engineer Mike Lossmann demonstrates features within Forward Networks
Technical Marketing Manager, and former IT engineer Mike Lossmann demonstrates features within Forward Networks
Facing challenges with your virtualized infrastructure? The search for the right solution can be overwhelming, with VMware's complexities and costs, lackluster alternatives, and the escalating expenses of the Public Cloud. VergeIO's ultraconverged infrastructure (UCI) offers a streamlined, efficient approach that simplifies IT and cuts upfront and ongoing costs.
What You'll Learn: - Why on-premises data centers still relevant, and how can they be more cost-effective
- How VergeOS integrates server virtualization, networking, and storage into a single unified code base, surpassing traditional HCI while supporting external storage.
- The three pillars of UCI are a unified code base, three-dimensional scaling, and virtual data centers.
- How VergeOS’s common sense, per server, licensing model saves you money.
- How VergeIO’s multi-layered approach to ransomware resiliency and data protection provides the fastest recovery options with the least data loss.
Norwegian pipe wholesaler Heidenreich needed an endpoint management solution to extend the lifespan of older devices and streamline management systems. IGEL was chosen due to its excellent functionality, ease of integration, and cost savings achieved by not replacing three hundred thin clients, laptops, and PCs.
Heidenreich had challenges with their Citrix platform due
to a combination of old and new DELL and Wyse hardware, laptops, and thin
clients. When the company was expected to upgrade its Citrix platform to a new
generation, the firm expressed concerns about the perceived high cost.
Heidenreich started to look for an alternative solution, and their IT
consultancy provider, Wedel IT, came up with the idea to implement IGEL OS. This
case study focuses on IGEL’s ease of management, flexibility on the client side
(new/old hardware), future-focused solutions, and security.
This solution brief provides guidance on leveraging the HP Elite mt645 G8 with IGEL OS for enhanced collaboration, multitasking, and security in cloud environments.
Designed for performance and reliability with advanced
security and productivity features, the HP Elite mt645 G8 Thin Client equipped
with IGEL OS empowers organizations to deliver the ultimate end user computing
experience within a virtualized environment.
This document aims to help customers understand the full spectrum of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) savings possible when adopting IGEL as their endpoint solution.
Adopting IGEL as an endpoint solution can lead to substantial TCO savings across multiple categories. These savings are driven by reduced risk, enhanced sustainability, software and hardware cost reductions, and lower labor expenses. By understanding and calculating these factors, organizations can make an informed decision that not only optimizes their financial investment but also supports their organization’s security and sustainability goals.
IGEL’s endpoint strategy accelerates the migration to Windows 11 in the Cloud by enabling IT to rapidly onboard and deliver secure fluid performance on AVD and Windows 365 Cloud PC.
Through the IGEL Ready program, close collaboration with key ecosystem partners supports modern collaboration tools and essential peripheral devices ensure compatibility with IGEL OS. This solution bire explores how integrations with Microsoft AVD, Windows 365 Cloud PC, and collaboration on healthcare use cases with Imprivata support secure access for roaming and remote users.
IGEL becomes the solution of choice for Western Health because it integrates with Imprivata and makes it easy for the organization to connect to multiple hosted services using the latest software agents for extending the life of legacy endpoint devices.
• Western Health required an endpoint management solution to prolong the lifespan of aging devices, thereby enhancing their sustainability and streamlining management processes
• Key requirements included a “Break Glass” feature, integration with Imprivata and unified communications systems, and minimizing user impact during the transition
• IGEL was chosen due to its excellent functionality, ease of integration with Imprivata, and cost savings achieved by not replacing 1,000 thin clients
• The solution offers role-based access control, zero-touch deployment, and integration with current management services, as well as reporting and alerting on device usage, support for change management, and end-user communication
Teaming with IGEL allowed Connecticut Orthopaedics to manage the security and deployment of its Windows OS-based endpoints more efficiently and gain better visibility.
Connecticut Orthopaedics significantly improved its endpoint management and security by adopting IGEL’s solution. This allowed the healthcare provider to move Windows into a VDI environment, replacing Windows at the endpoint with IGEL OS for over 700 daily users with diverse needs. The transition to IGEL was initiated in April 2023 and fully deployed by August 2023. It was a smooth transition, thanks to the support from IGEL and the diligent work of the healthcare provider’s IT team. IGEL’s Preventative Security Model provided a secure, manageable, and scalable platform, enabling a stronger Zero Trust framework and streamlined endpoint management. The deployment included over 650 endpoints running IGEL OS. This transition has led to minimal end-user feedback, indicating a seamless change. It has allowed the healthcare provider to gain real-time analytics across its endpoints, enhancing its operational efficiency and security posture.
Unstructured data is vital for businesses but grows rapidly, making storage, protection, and management complex and costly. Cloud storage can ease this burden but can also be hard to manage, expensive, and unpredictable. Complex cloud storage limits developer productivity and media company agility. Learn how Backblaze customers simplified operations, enabled new opportunities, and significantly lowered costs, with substantial savings in storage, downloads, transactions, migration, and management
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face an unprecedented array of threats that underscore the critical importance of business resilience. An alarming rise in ransomware attacks has revealed that many organizations have inadequate data protection strategies and disaster recovery plans. To remain resilient, businesses must be proactive in adopting robust strategies that prioritize protection and recovery. This comprehensive guide explains the various facets of business resilience, including data protection and disaster recovery challenges. It also explores how the cloud has become an important tool for a more robust and agile response to cyberthreats.
Learn how to safeguard your server data with backups that preserve your information in case of an on-premises disaster. In this ebook you will learn: How to create a backup strategy, The difference between various backup types, Backup Strategies for on-premises, cloud-only and hybrid backups, How to evaluate cloud storage solutions with a Buyer's Guide, How to write a disaster recovery plan.
In business, data loss is unavoidable unless you have good server backups. Files get deleted accidentally, servers crash, computers fail, and employees make mistakes. However, those aren’t the only dangers. You could also lose your company data in a natural disaster or cybersecurity attack. Ransomware is a serious concern for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as large enterprises. Smart companies plan ahead to avoid data loss. This ebook will discuss: • Why it’s critical to keep your data backed up. • Server backup basics. • The different types of server backup. • How to create a solid backup strategy for your company. • How to create a recovery plan if you ever need to use your server backups.
Cyber attacks are getting sophisticated, necessitating early detection of malicious activity. Stringent government policies and compliances necessitate building robust log management systems. And, increased reliance on technology to support hybrid work models necessitates efficient management of extensive log data. Hence, log intelligence is in demand by organizations as they need robust systems to address the issues above and create secure and efficient log management.
Want to know the Log Management Trends in 2024 and Beyond? - CISOs face stringent government regulations, such as the current administration mandating 12-18 months of log retention.
- Chief Enterprise Architects worry that the average cost of a single enterprise service outage is $400K and the average MTTR is over 7 hrs.
- Companies such as Facebook lose $65 million and 4.8% of their stock valuation over a 5-hour outage.
- Security breaches mar organizational reputation and prove a threat to business.
- 91% of leaders agree that monitoring tools are siloed and domain-specific, complicating the log management landscape.
- VP Cloud/IT Services acknowledge the accelerated pace of digital transformation post-COVID-19 and recognize the need for more sophisticated security monitoring and SIEM adoption.
- Log management market size reaches $2.3 billion in 2021 and is expected to grow to $4.1 billion by 2026 at a CAGR of 11.9%.
In recent years, the demand for real-time remediation solutions has been on the rise as organizations seek to streamline their support operations and improve customer satisfaction. Real-time remediation solutions are designed to help IT support teams...
In recent years, the demand for real-time remediation solutions has been on the rise as organizations seek to streamline their support operations and improve customer satisfaction. Real-time remediation solutions are designed to help IT support teams quickly identify and resolve user issues by automating common troubleshooting tasks and providing actionable insights. Another reason for the rise in demand is the massive shift to work from anywhere that has occurred post COVID-19. According to Gartner, Inc. a research and advisory firm, it is predicted that work from anywhere will continue to rise. By year-end 2023, 48% of knowledge workers will be working hybrid and fully remote, up from 27% in 2019, with 39% of those working hybrid, up from 12% in 2020. Hybrid is no longer just an employee perk but an employee expectation, challenging employers to create a human-centric approach to “hybrid.” However, there is no sign of a decline in hybrid work. According to a Gartner, Inc. Hybrid Work Employee Survey, 74% of hybrid or remote employees say their expectations for working flexibly have increased. Only 4% of current hybrid or remote employees have a preference for an on-site arrangement. This hybrid working shift creates a challenge for IT admins to have the ability to monitor and remediate remote endpoints, and this is where real-time remediation solutions come in. This whitepaper will examine the current market for real-time remediation solutions, including key trends, challenges, and opportunities.
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Cybersecurity is now recognized as a key priority for U.S. businesses. However, cybersecurity threats are evolving as risks, and the responses necessary to mitigate them, change rapidly. Staying a step ahead of bad actors is a continuous challenge and businesses—despite their intentions to do so—aren’t always keeping pace.
Cybersecurity is now recognized as a key priority for U.S. businesses. However, cybersecurity threats are evolving as risks, and the responses necessary to mitigate them, change rapidly. Staying a step ahead of bad actors is a continuous challenge and businesses—despite their intentions to do so—aren’t always keeping pace. To solve this problem, IT leaders must understand why. They need answers to questions such as, how is cybersecurity transforming? How are cyberattacks harming businesses? Where must investments in preventative training and tools be focused? Is cybersecurity being prioritized by leadership? And how does cybersecurity fit within organizational culture? In partnership with Sapio Research, Keeper Security analyzed the behaviors and attitudes of 516 IT decision-makers in the U.S. to answer these questions and more. This report, Keeper’s second annual U.S. Cybersecurity Census, maps the transforming landscape of cybersecurity based on these expert insights. It provides leaders with a forensic assessment of the threats their businesses face and details the urgent strategies necessary to overcome them. Businesses across the U.S. are making cybersecurity a priority. However, despite efforts and investments, clear gaps remain. Our research shows that there have been small steps, but no giant leaps. The volume and pace at which threats are hitting businesses are increasing, and leadership can’t afford to wait. If they do, the financial, reputational, and organizational penalties will be severe. Likewise, as work has transformed dramatically over the past two years—with hybrid and remote working normalized— companies need to rethink how they are building cybersecurity resilience.
To raise awareness about the scale of the problem of weak passwords, Keeper Security, the leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software, is sharing findings about Americans’ password habits and practices. By raising awareness of the personal finances and data put at risk every day by weak, duplicate, and shared passwords, we hope to reduce the risk of cybercrime and promote better password practices among Americans.
Online passwords are used for many critical aspects of our lives. They are needed when we communicate, work, transact and travel. We use them to access our most sensitive data, from banking to health records. Digital passwords are the keys to our lives. Yet we are surprisingly negligent about password protection, from our choice of passwords to the means we use to remember them, and troublingly, our willingness to share sensitive passwords with others.
Keeper Security’s survey of 4,000+ respondents in the US and UK unearthed negligent attitudes toward password protection, in which passwords are being shared with spouses, written down on bits of paper, changed too often, and forgotten over 50 times per year! The result: nearly half of our 2,000 US survey respondents had been hacked at least once, with an average of $378 stolen per cyberattack. The consequences of poor password protection can be disastrous in an era of growing online crime and identity theft. A hacked password can result in ransacked bank accounts, obliterated credit ratings, damaged personal lives and severed business relationships.
Our findings show a troubling disconnect between the value people attach to their passwords and the means they use to protect them. In the US, people would rather see a dentist than lose their passwords, yet safe selection, storage, and management of passwords were found to be severely lacking in this study. It is of great concern to see passwords being shared and duplicated across multiple platforms. It’s equally concerning to see the use of overly simple passwords, relying on publicly-available data, such as names and birthdays. This will remain an acute challenge as we continue to use a range of devices and platforms to access the internet. The impact of poor password protection was evidenced by the number of people in the survey reporting they’ve personally fallen victim to a cyberattack, resulting in financial loss and compromised social media profiles.
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