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Safeguarding Your Business in the Digital Age
With threats from cybercrime on the rise, improving the security posture of your business is crucial. Download this white paper to review the current threat landscape, the cost of cybercrime, and what you can do to protect your business without putting stress on your bottom line.
Organizations are facing increasing threats from cybercrime, and it’s only getting worse as criminals get more sophisticated and data increases exponentially. In fact, there has been a 300% increase in reported cybercrimes in just the last two years alone.

When you consider that hackers only have to succeed once to spell disaster for your entire enterprise, it’s more important than ever to put a solid, multi-layered security strategy into place to protect your organization.

But where do you start? Hiring an experienced cybersecurity team is expensive at best, and impossible at worst. In this white paper, we look at the increased threats, the cost of cybercrime, and what you can do to protect your business without putting stress on your bottom line.
Gorilla Guide to Real-Time Ransomware Detection and Recovery
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!

Cyber Attack Survival Guide for Healthcare
With alarming statistics of ransomware attacks on the rise, healthcare organizations need to have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan in place. As healthcare organizations continue to evolve and store data in disparate locations and in the hands of more users than ever before, they have to take data protection as seriously as prevention. Prevention alone is not enough, and recovery must be a crucial component of every cybersecurity strategy.

It’s Time to Attack Your Ransomware Recovery Strategy

For healthcare organizations, experiencing a cyberattack is no longer a matter of if—it’s a matter of when. Developing a clear ransomware recovery strategy is your best defense. 

Our free Cyber Attack Survival Guide for Healthcare lays out the plan of attack needed to have a fighting chance against ransomware. This survival guide features essential information, including:

  • The growing threat of cyberattacks in healthcare
  • How healthcare customers use Zerto to recover in seconds
  • The key to rapid ransomware recovery to dramatically reduce downtime and data loss  

Without a ransomware response plan, your organization remains vulnerable. Download your Cyber Attack Survival Guide for Healthcare now—it’s free!

Developing a Comprehensive Windows Application Strategy with Liquidware Essentials
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.

VMware DEM and App Volumes Overview Comparison with ProfileUnity & FlexApp
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.
The Business Value of Forward Networks
IDC’s Business Value Solution Brief (US52128624, Jun 2024) finds that Forward Networks delivers $14.2M in average annual benefits per customer. These gains stem from fewer outages, faster recovery, improved incident response, accelerated deployments, and streamlined compliance. Enterprises reclaim nearly 96 FTEs, recover 180K productivity hours, and enhance visibility, security, and control—making ROI both compelling and quantifiable.

IDC’s 21-page Business Value Solution Brief, The Business Value of Forward Networks (doc #US52128624, June 2024), quantifies how the vendor’s network-digital-twin platform turns insight into hard cash. 

IDC interviewed enterprises that had run Forward Enterprise for roughly three years and mapped their operational KPIs to its Business Value model, converting them into annualised dollars and full-time-equivalent (FTE) hours.
$14.2 million in average annual benefits, broken down into $7.7 M from greater stability and reliability, $2.9 M from staff productivity and $3.6 M from other operational efficiencies.

95.8 FTEs worth of time returned each year.

33 % fewer unplanned-downtime incidents and 55 % faster mean-time-to-repair, preventing about 180 000 hours of lost productivity.

Incident-response teams work 34 % faster; compliance/audit tasks 10 % faster.

Network deployments finish 71 % sooner; change-planning/testing is 36 % faster; production fixes arrive 44 % faster.

Forward Enterprise builds a mathematically exact, continuously updated digital twin of multi-vendor, hybrid-cloud networks. Engineers query reachability, policy and configuration drift in seconds and run “what-if” simulations before changes. This eliminates manual CLI hunts, shortens root-cause analysis, prevents misconfigurations and surfaces licence waste, underpinning the monetised savings above.

Customers also reported quicker security investigations (thanks to instant path analysis), smoother cloud migrations, clearer executive-level reporting and higher team morale as reactive “fire-fighting” declined.

IDC concludes that the platform typically pays for itself in under twelve months and then delivers a durable, measurable ROI. For organisations wrestling with complex, hybrid networks, a digital-twin strategy emerges as both an operations accelerator and a business enabler, aligning network health with broader risk-reduction and growth objectives.

IGEL Accelerates Window 11 Migration in the Cloud for Now and Next
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.
HYCU for Microsoft Entra ID: Safeguarding Your Identity and Access Management
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.

Digital Resilience - Elevating Your Data Protection with Nutanix and HYCU
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.
Technical Review: ExaGrid Retention Time-Lock for Ransomware Recovery
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.
Infographic: IGEL Preventative Security Model
Learn why the Preventative Security Model™ is at the center of your IT strategy for Now & Next
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.
Index Engines' CyberSense Validated 99.99% Effective in Detecting Ransomware Corruption
Driven by advanced AI-based analysis and full-content inspection of data, CyberSense® features a 99.99% service level agreement (SLA) to accurately detect sophisticated corruption caused by the latest, most sophisticated ransomware variants. Modern ransomware variants are increasingly performing stealth corruption of data. Continuous validation of data integrity is crucial to minimize downtime and simplify the recovery processes, thereby mitigating the negative impacts of ransomware attacks.

Verified Rate for Accurate Detection of Ransomware Corruption

The CyberSense 99.99% SLA, goes through rigorous testing against real-world scenarios with live ransomware. By leveraging continuous learning and AI to perform deep content inspection, CyberSense achieves unprecedented accuracy when detecting data corruption.

Without this level of accuracy provided by CyberSense, organizations will remain vulnerable to ransomware attacks and will face elongated downtime and complex recovery processes that will negatively impact their organizations.

Maintain Confidence that alerts are real, and that false positives and negatives will be minimized

Support Continuous Accuracy with AI training done using real ransomware and studying how it changes data

Minimize Data Loss and cyber liability through detailed forensic reporting for faster, curated recovery

Prevent the Next Attack by feeding CyberSense's telemetry data to SIEM/SOAR systems

 Read more in this validation from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)

Cyber Resilience Begins with Trusted Data Integrity
In this eBook, we focus on developing a stronger cyber resilience strategy to address the evolving threat landscape and why that strategy begins with trust.

Making the right investment in cybersecurity is crucial to understanding the balance between smarter spending and smarter recovery.

You will learn:

  • The critical role of strong cyber resilience and data integrity play in thwarting ransomware attacks.
  • The cost-saving potential of data recovery and reduced downtime, and advocates for prevention and swift recovery.
  • How an SLA in detecting corruption can fortify cyber resilience and effectively combat ransomware threats.
Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Nerdio Manager for Enterprise for Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop
The report "Economic Validation: Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Nerdio for Azure Virtual Desktop" provides insights into the quantitative and qualitative advantages organizations can achieve with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise. The analysis explores how Nerdio simplifies the management of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), reducing costs and operational complexity while enhancing agility and security. Insights are based on customer interviews and industry analysis conducted by Enterprise Strategy G
The report "Economic Validation: Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Nerdio for Azure Virtual Desktop" provides insights into the quantitative and qualitative advantages organizations can achieve with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise. The analysis explores how Nerdio simplifies the management of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), reducing costs and operational complexity while enhancing agility and security. Insights are based on customer interviews and industry analysis conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
  • Cost Savings: Nerdio reduces AVD costs by 55% on average, cuts IT management time by 50%, and lowers support expenses by 36%, providing predictable and efficient cost management.
  • Business Efficiency: Optimizes resource usage with AI-driven scaling, accelerates onboarding, automates workflows, and empowers IT teams to focus on strategic goals.
  • Enhanced Security: Improves patching, compliance, disaster recovery, and breach prevention, reducing risks and strengthening the organization's security posture.
  • Customer Feedback: Customers appreciate Nerdio’s intuitive interface, real-time cost-saving insights, and its role in reducing complexity while supporting sustainability.
  • Tangible Business Impact: Drives increased revenue, operational clarity, and resource optimization, enabling businesses to achieve measurable improvements in efficiency and profitability.
ExaGrid With Commvault: Maximum Deduplication Savings With Easy Management
This report documents a validation by TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group of ExaGrid testing that demonstrated both the capacity savings and ease of use available from a combined ExaGrid and Commvault backup solution.
Any solution should be tested and planned with an organization’s specific needs and objectives in mind. Taking this into consideration, if your organization is looking to spend less on backup storage without adding complexity to its data protection scheme, Enterprise Strategy Group recommends looking closely at the combined ExaGrid and Commvault solution. Read more in this technical review.