• User state can be stored separately and delivered just-in-time to enable workers to roam from workspace to workspace
• Users’ profiles can co-exist in mixed OS environments or automatically migrate from one OS to the next, making OS upgrades easy and essentially irrelevant during a point-in-time upgrade
• Integral policies and self-managed settings, such as local and network printer management, as well as security policies, can be readily restored in the event of a PC failure or loss (disaster recovery)
  

In this guide you will learn about Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning with Zerto's Disaster Recovery Solutions for Virtualized Environments.

In today’s always-on, information-driven organizations, business continuity depends completely on IT infrastructures that are up and running 24/7. Being prepared for any data related disaster is key!

• The cost and business impact of downtime and data loss can be immenseUtilizing Zerto’s Disaster Recovery solutions can greatly mitigate downtime and data loss with 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 software problems and cyber security related disasters
• 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
  

In this booklet we provide insights into the challenges, needs, strategies, and solutions for disaster recovery and business continuity, especially in modern, virtualized environments and the public cloud.

Download this white paper and learn more about Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery preparedness and how Zerto can help!

• How to evaluate replication technologies
• Measuring the cost of downtime
• How to test your Disaster Recovery plan
• Reasons why backup isn’t Disaster Recovery
• Tips for leveraging the cloud
• Mitigating IT threats like ransomware

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.

• How to prepare for both unplanned and planned disruptions to ensure continuous availability
• Actionable steps to remove the complexity of moving and migrating workloads across disparate infrastructures
• Guidance on hybrid and multi-cloud IT: gain the flexibility to move applications in and out of the cloud

9 out of 10 companies that participated in the IDC study think having both Disaster Recovery and Backup is redundant. Do you agree? Read the report and benchmark against your peers.

An independent study by analyst firm, IDC, confirms the importance of IT resilience within hundreds of global organizations. The survey report spotlights the level of IT resilience within these companies and where there are gaps. Their findings may surprise you.

• 93% surveyed find redundancy in having both disaster recovery and backup as separate solutions
• 9 out of 10 already do or will use the Cloud for data protection within the next 12 months
• Nearly 50% of respondents have suffered impacts from cyber threats, including unrecoverable data, within the last 3 years

Use the report findings to benchmark your data protection and recovery strategies against your peers. Learn how resilient IT is the foundation to not only protect, but to effectively grow your business.

Download the IDC report to benchmark your data protection and recovery strategies against those of your peers. Learn how Resilient IT is the stepping stone for business growth and transformation.

With so many moving pieces involved in business continuity and disaster recovery planning, anticipating the downstream impact of new SAN arrays, hyperconverged systems, and disaster recovery site relocation is increasingly more difficult. Download this white paper to learn how DataCore SDS services help you adapt your safeguards accordingly in the face of these common initiatives and business challenges:

•    Storage Array Replacement
•    Mergers and Acquisitions
•    Cloud Replication
•    Hyperconverged Infrastructure
•    Multi-Site Metro Cluster

There are many new challenges, and reasons, to migrate workloads to the cloud.

For example, here are four of the most popular:

• Analytics and Machine learning (ML) are everywhere. Once you have your data in a cloud platform like Google Cloud Platform, you can leverage their APIs to run analytics and ML on everything.
• Kubernetes is powerful and scalable, but transitioning legacy apps to Kubernetes can be daunting.
• SAP HANA is a secret weapon. With high mem instances in the double digit TeraBytes migrating SAP to a cloud platform is easier than ever.
• Serverless is the future for application development. With CloudSQL, Big Query, and all the other serverless solutions, cloud platforms like GCP are well positioned to be the easiest platform for app development.
  

Whether it is for backup, disaster recovery, or production in the cloud, you should be able to leverage the cloud platform to solve your technology challenges. In this step-by-step guide, we outline how GCP is positioned to be one of the easiest cloud platforms for app development. And, the critical role data protection as-as-service (DPaaS) can play.

This white paper works through data protection processes and best practices using the Tintri VMstore. Tintri technology is differentiated by its level of abstraction—the ability to take every action on individual virtual machines.  In this paper, you’ll:

• Learn how that greatly increases the precision and efficiency of snapshots for data protection
• Explore the ability to move between recovery points
• Analyze the behavior of individual virtual machines
• Predict the need for additional capacity and performance for data protection
  

If you’re focused on building a successful data protection solution, this document targets key best practices and known challenges. Hypervisor administrators and staff members associated with architecting, deploying and administering a data protection and disaster recovery solution will want to dig into this document to understand how Tintri can save them a great deal of their management effort and greatly reduce operating expense.

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. 

• How data protection service providers enable IT teams to focus on business objectives
• The difference, and importance, of cloud-based backup and disaster recovery
• Why cloud-based backup and disaster recovery are required for complete protection
  

Assess what you already have

If you have a business continuity plan or a disaster recovery plan in place, that’s a good place to start. This scenario may not fit the definition of disaster that you originally intended, but it can serve to help you test your plan in a more controlled fashion that can benefit both your current situation by giving you a head start, and your overall plan by revealing gaps that would be more problematic in a more urgent or catastrophic environment with less time to prepare and implement.

Does your plan include access to remote desktops in a data center or the cloud? If so, and you already have a service in place ready to transition or expand, you’re well on your way.

Read the guide to learn what it takes for IT teams to set up staff to work effectively from home with virtual desktop deployments. Learn how to get started, if you’re new to VDI or if you already have an existing remote desktop scenario but are looking for alternatives.

Metallic is a new SaaS backup and recovery solution based on Commvault's data protection software suite, proven in the marketplace for more than 20 years. It is designed specifically for the needs of medium-scale enterprises but is architected to grow with them based on data growth, user growth, or other requirements. Metallic initially offers either monthly or annual subscriptions through reseller partners; it will be available through cloud service providers and managed service providers over time. The initial workload use cases for Metallic include virtual machine (VM), SQL Server, file server, MS Office 365, and endpoint device recovery support; the company expects to add more use cases and supported workloads as the solution evolves.

Metallic is designed to offer flexibility as one of the service's hallmarks. Aspects of this include:

• On-demand infrastructure: Metallic manages the cloud-based infrastructure components and software for the backup environment, though the customer will still manage any of its own on- premise infrastructure. This environment will support on-premise, cloud, and hybrid workloads. IT organizations are relieved of the daily task of managing the infrastructure components and do not have to worry about upgrades, OS or firmware updates and the like, for the cloud infrastructure, so people can repurpose that time saved toward other activities.

• Metallic offers preconfigured plans designed to have users up and running in approximately 15 minutes, eliminating the need for a proof-of-concept test. These preconfigured systems have Commvault best practices built into the design, or organizations can configure their own.

• Partner-delivered services: Metallic plans to go to market with resellers that can offer a range of services on top of the basic solution's capabilities. These services will vary by provider and will give users a variety of choices when selecting a provider to match the services offered with the organization's needs.

• "Bring your own storage": Among the flexible options of Metallic, including VM and file or SQL database use cases, users can deploy their own storage, either on-premise or in the cloud, while utilizing the backup/recovery services of Metallic. The company refers to this option as "SaaS Plus."