Zerto

OCTOBER 6, 2022

IT resilience refers to the ability to continuously keep essential IT systems and applications up and running despite disasters and disruptions. This mitigates the risks of potential data loss and downtime while keeping your systems up and running as much as possible. What Is IT Resilience? What Does an IT Resilience Strategy Require?

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Zerto

APRIL 13, 2023

In this post, we start by discussing the threats against applications running as Kubernetes clusters. We’ll cover the threats against applications running as Kubernetes clusters and how Zerto for Kubernetes and its one-to-many replication functionality protects against them. They’re managed by the Kubernetes control plane.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 3, 2021

As a result, businesses were on an ever-revolving turntable of purchasing new arrays, installing them, migrating data, juggling weekend outages, and managing months-long implementations. For our early customers, it has meant a decade without the hassles of migrations, storage refreshes, weekend outages, or application outages.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

An IT disaster that leaves an organization without its data and applications can be crippling, if not fatal. The world has become increasingly reliant on access to data and digital services, and prolonged outages may cost your organization lost business, impaired productivity and irreparable reputation damage.

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Zerto

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With the global surge in cybercrime—particularly ransomware attacks —and occasional outages of cloud services , enterprise risk management is just the latest initiative that needs attention. The ripple effects lasted 4400% longer than the outage itself. Customers, as well as internal team members, were severely impacted.

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Zerto

MARCH 5, 2025

CIS Controls: The Center for Internet Security (CIS) Controls are a prioritized set of actions designed to mitigate the most common cyberattacks. With recovery granularity of seconds, Zerto effectively minimizes data loss and significantly mitigates the impact of outages and disruptions on your organization.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), Cyber resilience describes an organization’s ability to mitigate, respond to and recover from cyber threats and attacks such as ransomware. What Is Cyber Resilience? What Does a Cyber Resilience Strategy Include?

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Zerto

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has developed a set of prioritized mitigation strategies known as the Essential Eight to safeguard internet-connected information technology networks. These strategies, outlined by the ASD, form a comprehensive framework to mitigate cybersecurity incidents effectively.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

While no one is immune to cybercrime, preparedness can significantly mitigate its impact on an organization. xMatters, a service reliability platform, aids DevOps and operations teams in automating workflows and maintaining infrastructure and applications.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Service outages ultimately frustrate customers, leading to churn and loss of trust. These are the most common weak points cyber extortionists use: Outdated software and systems: Unpatched operating systems, applications, or hardware often have known vulnerabilities that attackers exploit.

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Zerto

JULY 25, 2023

Educators need their applications available to reliably teach to our children, while constituents need access to emergency, financial and social services in their most critical time of need. An IT outage of any sort can adversely impact people’s lives. Seeking help planning or updating your data protection strategy?

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. Applications and systems used and their importance. Functional importance of applications in terms of IT. Interdependencies between processes.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It’s likely that your IT environment changes often during the year as you add or upgrade applications, platforms, and infrastructure. Instead, you may be able to run a test on the recovery of an individual application once a week or every other week. Setting Up Your Disaster Recovery Testing Template: Full vs. Partial.

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Zerto

JANUARY 17, 2023

No application is safe from ransomware. This vulnerability is particularly alarming for organizations that are refactoring their applications for Kubernetes and containers. Refactoring” an application means breaking it down into many different “services” which can be deployed and operated independently.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Improved digital experiences : By proactively addressing performance issues and reducing downtime, AIOps ensures critical applications like course registration, student information, and financial aid systems remain operational, leading to increased student satisfaction and minimizing the impact of disruptions.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 16, 2024

This reduces MTTR, risk, and cost to the business as well as mitigate burnout on first-line response teams. SRE : Automate the full journey of an event by building auto-remediation or “human in the middle” automation where applicable. For example: NOC : Adopt L0 automation to run before a human is called.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management The Practice of Vulnerability Management Last week, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog about vulnerability management , the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

As a refresher from previous blogs, our example ecommerce company’s “Shoppers” application runs in the cloud. It is a monolithic application (application server and web server) that runs on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. The monolith application is tightly coupled with the database.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Mitigating the environmental impact of data infrastructures requires a sustainable model with data storage that’s engineered to need less space, power, and cooling. Pure Storage ensures that data, the lifeblood of the digital business, is always available and resilient. Pro tip: If your IT vendors aren’t consistently innovating, how can you?

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

They soon find the field contains an abundance of specialist terms such as inherent risk , mitigation controls , and recovery time objective. IT/DR focuses on the recovery of technological assets, whether computers, networks, systems, or applications following a disaster such as a successful cyberattack.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Approaching maintenance in this way allows your organization to be prepared for planned outages within your infrastructure, including patch installation, security updates, and service packs. Consolidating your disconnected systems is essential to mitigate this risk and streamline the recovery process. . Incompatible Infrastructure.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

” The BCP is a master document that details your organization’s entire prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery protocols for all kinds of threats and disasters. References to Runbooks detailing all applicable procedures step-by-step, with checklists and flow diagrams. A schedule defining reviews, tests of the plan.

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NexusTek

MARCH 4, 2020

Within your BCP, a theorized list of implications that a peril would have on your business and ways to mitigate the impact of peril or outage-induced downtime are vital to the success of your plan. power outages, email outages, etc). Being prepared will mitigate the impact on your business and reduce downtime.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

As generative AI applications like chatbots become more pervasive, companies will train them on their troves of internal data, unlocking even more value from previously untapped information. The result is that large sections of corporate datasets are now created by SaaS applications.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

An IT disaster that leaves an organization without its data and applications can be crippling, if not fatal. The world has become increasingly reliant on access to data and digital services, and prolonged outages may cost your organization lost business, impaired productivity and irreparable reputation damage.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 8, 2024

The cloud providers have no knowledge of your applications or their KPIs. Cloud providers have experienced outages due to configuration errors , distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS), and even catastrophic fires. This dependence has brought risk. How should a team handle an incident that lies with an upstream provider?

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IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Closely aligned with a data center strategy should be a holistic BCDR strategy that considers all types of risks (system failure, natural disaster, human error or cyberattack) and outage scenarios, and provides plans for mitigation with minimal or no impact to the business.

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PagerDuty

JULY 31, 2024

They can be large, messy, and complex, like the major outage we saw recently. When incidents occur, mobilizing and coordinating responders is crucial to restoring service, protecting the customer experience, and mitigating business risks. Your team will likely to do this in your chat application of choice.

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everbridge

APRIL 18, 2022

An incident postmortem is a structured review process following an outage or event that caused a significant disruption. Act quickly and effectively mitigate disruptions. and Major Incident Management (MIM) automate workflows, ensure infrastructure and applications are always working, and rapidly deliver products at scale.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With recovery granularity of seconds, it effectively minimizes data loss and significantly mitigating the impact of outages and disruptions on your organization. Application-Centric Protection and Recovery: Zerto treats applications and workloads as a single cohesive unit.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2025

Without proper oversight, sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS applications can leave sensitive business information exposed. When backups of sanctioned SaaS applications do exist, overlooked SaaS data often goes unprotected. Shadow IT and shadow AI remain a major source of headaches for IT teams. That starts with immutable storage.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

It leaves too much time for systems and applications to change, reducing the relevance of the BIA and the recovery plans based on it. That’s why companies that are sophisticated about business continuity should consider moving toward identifying multiple RTOs for a given process, where applicable. The one-and-done “Big Bang” exercise.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It also documents existing strategies and measures already in place to mitigate the impact of said risks. Essentially, risk assessment identifies potential risks, assesses their severity, and determines the best course of action to mitigate or eliminate them. What is a Service Level Agreement (SLA) in Business Continuity?

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Pure Storage

APRIL 13, 2022

Most business-critical applications run on high-performance all-flash storage arrays. The same forces that drive businesses to demand high performance from their applications apply to data protection operations. IT professionals need fast data protection before challenges to application availability appear. . Faster Is Better.

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Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

Deploying a clean energy infrastructure to build in another layer of resilience from increasing energy costs and outages. Defend critical infrastructure In addition to modernizing its own systems, the government is working to mitigate widespread disruptions that can occur when critical infrastructures are taken out at the knees.

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Erwood Group

MAY 30, 2024

The RTO specifies the target time or goal within which a business process, system, or application should be restored and recovered to an acceptable level of performance after a disruption to avoid significant business impact. Scope: The systems, applications, or processes covered by the RTO.

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Online Computers

AUGUST 29, 2023

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Businesses do not have to go through the lengthy and costly process of developing all of their applications from scratch. They can simply use SaaS, which allows them to subscribe to the specific software applications they need. Examples of PaaS are Heroku and Azure AI.

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