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8 Keys to Achieving Anywhere Operations
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.

The ROI of a Network Digital Twin
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
AIOps Operating Model & Its Economic Benefits
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
Connecticut Orthopaedics Transforms Endpoint Management and Security with IGEL
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.

Zero Trust and Enterprise Data Backup
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.

Understanding the VergeIO Architecture
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.
The State of SaaS Data Resilience in 2024
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.

Product Review: ExaGrid EX189
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.

Coretek Teams with IGEL to Transform VDI Deployment for a Defense Contractor
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.

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.
Florence Bank Teams with COCC and IGEL to Pivot from a Traditional to a Virtualized Desktop
The combination of COCC's iWorkstation and IGEL OS enables the community bank to connect its remote and hybrid workforces to VMware Horizon desktops while enhancing security, improving efficiencies, and reducing costs.
Florence Bank’s decision to adopt the COCC’s iWorkstation and IGEL has enabled the community bank to quickly modernize its IT infrastructure.

Since deploying COCC’s iWorkstation offering and IGEL OS within its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment, Florence Bank has streamlined its IT operations and improved the security of its endpoints.

IGEL’s Preventative Security Model, for example, provides a secure, manageable, and scalable platform, enabling a stronger Zero Trust framework and streamlined endpoint management.

The combination of the COCC iWorkstation and IGEL OS has also allowed Florence Bank to repurpose its aging hardware, in many cases extending its hardware refresh cycles by an additional five years, saving upwards of $100,000 to $150,000 in the process and enabling the community bank to take a phased approach when upgrading its desktop infrastructure.


Innovative AI Strategies Supporting Trusted Data Recovery
Evolving Threat Landscape: Ransomware attacks are more sophisticated than ever, targeting critical data with stealth and precision. Traditional data protection strategies often fail to detect corruption, leaving businesses vulnerable to downtime, data loss, and significant financial impact. Protect your data and your business—explore CyberSense today. Download the whitepaper to learn more.

Innovative AI Strategies Supporting Trusted Data Recovery`

The Challenge: Evolving Threat Landscape: Ransomware attacks are more sophisticated than ever, targeting critical data with stealth and precision. Traditional data protection strategies often fail to detect corruption, leaving businesses vulnerable to downtime, data loss, and significant financial impact.

Protect your data and your business—explore CyberSense today. Download the whitepaper to learn more.

The CyberSense Advantage: CyberSense offers proven AI-powered protection, ensuring unmatched accuracy and resilience:

  • 99.99% Detection Accuracy: Identify ransomware-induced corruption with precision.
  • Real-Time Data Integrity Checks: Analyze data at the binary level to detect even the most advanced attack patterns.
  • Rapid, Confident Recovery: Forensic insights enable swift recovery of clean data, minimizing downtime and impact.

Why Choose CyberSense? Trust that you will have best possible recovery in the wake of a cyberattack.

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.
7 Trends in Endpoint Security
Endpoint security has become increasingly critical in today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape. With the proliferation of remote work, cloud adoption, and the rise of sophisticated cyber attacks, businesses face numerous challenges in protecting their endpoints. This report outlines the top 7 trends in endpoint security for 2023, providing IT and security leaders with valuable insights to enhance their endpoint security strategies.

The "Top 7 Trends in Endpoint Security for 2023" report provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of endpoint protection. It emphasizes the increasing importance of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), which operates on the principle that no user or device should be inherently trusted, thereby enhancing security through strict access controls and continuous monitoring.

The report also highlights the shift towards cloud-native endpoint security, offering scalability and real-time protection, especially vital with the rise of remote work. Additionally, the adoption of thin-managed operating systems is discussed, noting their role in reducing attack surfaces by securely connecting to cloud-based resources.

The integration of Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platforms is presented as a means to streamline security operations by consolidating data from various sources. Furthermore, the report underscores the significance of a human-centric approach to security, advocating for comprehensive employee training and fostering a culture of security awareness.

Advancements in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions are also covered, highlighting features like proactive threat hunting and automated responses. Lastly, the report discusses the role of security orchestration and automation in improving incident response times and operational efficiency.