Business & IT Resilience

Guest Blog Post by Daniel Hereford, Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer at SmartBank SmartBank is a full-service commercial bank which opened its first office in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee in January 2007. Exceeding $3 billion in assets, SmartBank has grown organically and through multiple acquisitions, including Progressive Savings Bank (2020), Foothills Bank (2018), Southern Community […]

Given everything that has unfolded this past year, predicting what’s next carries a lot of uncertainty. It’s clear that the pandemic and its impact on our workplaces accelerated the adoption of technologies and digital transformation in ways we couldn’t have predicted a year ago. However, we can’t stop looking ahead. With that in mind, members […]

The COVID-19 pandemic forced an unprecedented shift to employees and suppliers working remotely for organizations across all sectors, including federal agencies. Work-from-home (WFH) directives created plenty of challenges as physical access to systems and datacenters became unavailable and newly deployed collaboration and communications tools added strain to networks. Still, as a federal agency, you must […]

Congress passed the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) in 2014. The act was meant to improve technology implementations in federal agencies with the following core objectives: Decrease costs Improve efficiencies by streamlining purchasing Reduce duplicative spending and unused capacity The law has produced positive results, with some agencies achieving improved measurable outcomes. The […]

Federal agencies are facing extraordinary demands on their IT systems. To serve citizens and communities effectively, they are expected to remain available 24/7, compliant to security and data protection standards, and prepared to face increasingly severe cyberattacks. Meeting these demands means that having resilient systems is more critical for federal agencies than ever before. An unexpected event, like the pandemic the world is facing right now, increases the challenge of staying ahead of IT demands.   So how do federal agencies […]

Zerto CEO promotes relief programs for communities and businesses As the threat of COVID-19 continues to grow and we become increasingly isolated, I wanted to take this opportunity to connect as a company and community. Between the frightening statistics, social distancing, and market volatility, it is more important than ever that we stand in solidarity […]

Now that the COVID-19 virus is a global pandemic, companies and the general public need to take appropriate precautions.   COVID-19 is impacting our work and social lives in ways never seen before in our digital era. Balancing the potential effects of the virus on business operations while prioritizing employee safety and well-being is daunting.   We asked our […]

As cybercrimes grow more frequent and more severe, organizations across the globe continue to look for ways to improve the security of their data centers. These concerns are of particular importance to governmental organizations, which have the strictest standards for keeping private records and vital operations from being compromised. In the last year alone, dozens […]

A new year approaching means resolutions, goals, and optimistic predictions for success. Zerto’s prediction for IT leaders is that 2020 will be the Year of IT Resilience. Why? Because in 2020 more than ever, organizations need to: Decrease downtime—and the staggering costs associated with downtime Become cyber-resilient in the face of evolving and growing threats […]

It’s that time of year again: consumers begin checking off their shopping lists and businesses push to get their products in front of consumers and out the door at a pace that can make heads spin. We all know it’s coming—the climax of the holiday IT frenzy—Black Friday is almost upon us! Every touch point, […]

It’s 10PM… do you know where your backups are? If the ghosts of incidents past come haunting you this Halloween, take comfort in knowing you’re not the only IT pro to have faced sleepless nights from frightening disasters of all kinds. Do any of these spooky tales sound familiar? The end user who haplessly introduced […]

As everyone knows by now, Zerto is big on the concept of Resilience. So, when Forrester published the Forrester Wave for Data Resiliency Solutions Q3-2019, we took a close look. We were disappointed to find that under the pretense of “data resilience”, Forrester chose to stay behind and focus on legacy backup. Though the data […]