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No application is safe from ransomware. In 2022, IDC conducted a study to understand the evolving requirements for ransomware and disaster recovery preparation. This study uncovered a demand for data that has never been greater, and yet the vulnerability and risks to data integrity are escalating, with ransomware attacks growing in both severity and scale. […]

What would you do if all your systems went down? In a study conducted by IDC and sponsored by Zerto, 94% of organizations reported unplanned downtime. In today’s business landscape, an organization’s survival depends on safekeeping their data. Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is an industry leader in helping companies protect and move their […]

Beating out a host of leading technology industry names, including Rubrik, Veeam and Veritas, Zerto 9.5 has been named by CRN as Data Protection and Management Product of the Year in its annual Tech Innovator Awards. As the highest-scoring overall winner, Zerto 9.5 brings its ransomware recovery capabilities to the leading cloud providers, enabling organizations […]

In Zerto 9.5, Zerto introduced a new Zerto Virtual Manager Appliance (ZVMA) and an alternative to creating your own Windows-based ZVM deployment on a virtual machine. This virtual appliance is designed to be easier to deploy, easier to manage/maintain, and more secure. If you are an existing Zerto customer with Windows-based ZVM deployments or just […]

Why DRaaS? Implementing a disaster recovery (DR) solution can be a complex task for an organization that is new to the process. Obtaining the expertise, finding a suitable DR site, choosing the right DR solution, formulating an effective DR strategy, and testing DR plans can be overwhelming and lead organizations to implement less-than-ideal DR plans […]

Risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), and service level agreement (SLAs) are indispensable to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. As such, organizational leaders must thoroughly understand these terms: their similarities and differences, and how to leverage them to safeguard their business operations from threats and disruptive events. Differentiating […]

In the concluding part of our five part mini-series, we are going to put the pieces together. We’ll see how the three dimensions we consider foundational to building business resilience—operational resilience (part two), IT resilience (part three), and cyber resilience (part four)—relate to business continuity, a tangible part of business resilience in the immediate to […]

October may have come to an end, but the stranger disasters that organizations face are still happening every day and will continue to rise. Top Three Cyber Threats of 2022 This year, the top three shared challenges of organizations were: Ransomware and the rise of RaaS—Ransomware continues to increase yearly, with attacks happening every 11 […]

More than ever, companies rely on data to perform day-to-day operations. Businesses can’t function at their best without it. That’s why it’s so important to adapt internal strategies as cyberthreats and challenges evolve, and existing threats grow more dangerous. Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, conducted the 2022 Ransomware Strategy Survey to measure how companies […]

As we continue with our third and final blog in this series on managing cyberthreats, we’ll explore frameworks from the National Institute of Standards & Technology and Center for Internet Security, which together provide time-tested knowledge and best practices used to combat ransomware. National Institute of Standards & Technology National Institute of Standards & Technology […]

If IT Resilience is the cornerstone of business resilience as seen in part three, in today’s digital world, cyber resilience is an extension of it, and one of its other pillars. Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), it is imperative that an organization […]

Let’s summarize where we stand. In part one, we covered business resilience. In part two, we went over operational resilience and showed its slightly narrower scope and approach. In part three, we are going to look at a cornerstone of business resilience, IT resilience. What Is IT Resilience? IT resilience refers to the ability to […]