The Five Leading Causes of Data Loss

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Data Loss

The Five Leading Causes of Data Loss

Remember how it feels when you accidentally deleted important data? Or when your PC was suddenly broken? Losing important data is the worst nightmare you can get in this digital age, not to mention if those data belong to your business.

Of course, there might be some ways to get back your data when you unintentionally delete your data. And often time, those process are meant to be done by professional, with no guarantee that everything can be recovered.

These are five leading causes of data loss you should know:

  1. Hardware or System Malfunctions

It has been observed that most of the data losses occur due to hardware or system malfunctions. Hard drive failure is the common cause of data loss. Hard drives are the flimsiest parts of a system. Most of the hard disk failure occurs due to mechanical issues, human mishandling, overheats, sudden power failure, liquid damage, etc. Hence, to prevent it from damage, one should keep the computer dust free and using an uninterrupted power supply to reduce the risk of data loss because of power failure.

  1. Power Outage

Certainly, a power failure can halt business operations significantly. A sudden shutdown due to an abrupt power outage can damage your hard drive which could lead to inaccessibility of your essential data. Thus, to avoid data loss situation, it is advised to use a generator or a backup battery to protect your system during a power outage.

  1. Human Errors

Another cause of data loss is human errors. For instance, when someone in your company unintentionally deleted files or folders. Sometimes, users delete some important files such as system registry settings, alteration OS files location or attribute, etc.

  1. Malware attack

There are various kind of viruses which could attack computers every day. Being connected to worldwide network has many advantages; however, it opens computers to many serious risks. Virus attack could impact your computer performs, even worst it can steal your important data too. Imagine your client databases, technical inventions, industrial information, or any data that have serious monetary value get damaged or stole by a hacker. That’s why it is important to have your backup data.

  1. Natural Disasters

Who can be blame if your office or your data center got flooded? Or if your building burnt down along with your data storage. Having regular backups and keeping them in various locations sometimes makes tremendous difference. Do not let accidents hit you unexpectedly, make backups of your data now.

Cloud Backup from Zettagrid provides solution to these 5 causes of Data Loss. You can quickly recover your data when you need to. Cloud Backup makes it easy for you to extend your Veeam Backup infrastructure into the cloud.  Interested in backup your data to Zettagrid? Contact Us Here

 

Sources: Imobie

Keep Your Business Away from Disaster with SecondSite DR

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Secondsite Disaster Recovery

Keep your business away from Disaster with SecondSite DR

According to USAID, Indonesia is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, regularly experiencing earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, volcanic eruptions, flooding, and drought. For example, the flood that just happened in several cities in Indonesia that impacted to several business and offices. Spread across 6,000 inhabited islands, communities in Indonesia face a numerous different hazard, as well as differing levels of disaster response capacity, posing a challenge to preparing for and responding to disasters.

By this condition, it is very important for enterprises to be prepared and keep their business running due to disaster possibility in Indonesia.

Secondsite Disaster Recovery

Zettagrid provides you solution for disaster recovery. SecondSite DR is a real-time disaster recovery replication (DRaaS) solution built on the award-winning Zerto platform that provides recovery site, data synchronization, accessibility and activation for part or all of your virtual environment.

SecondSite™ is a great product and has so many benefits to partners and customers. we have short the list as we could and came up with these range of benefits below:

Low RPOs: The SecondSite DR solution can give Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) of as little as 3 seconds.

Low RTOs: Right after you hit the Failover button, we can have your VMs up and running in a few minutes anytime day or night giving you a great Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

DR you can test: A lot of solutions are great but too hard to properly test. SecondSite allows you to do full ring-fenced testing during business hours without pausing replication or impacting production.

Simple Pricing: Let’s not kid ourselves, you can pour good money after bad into DR projects that end up costing millions and often don’t deliver. We have made it simple, Rp2 million per VM, no hidden costs, contracts or gotchas.

Automation, Automation, Automation: At Zettagrid if we can’t automate it, we don’t want to do it. Take advantage of all the development we’ve done from our mature VDC product, networking and the Zerto product itself to make life easier for your company.

Expert Support: We at Zettagrid have done countless successful implementations. We know what works and what doesn’t. Let our experience in providing DR guide you to a successful implementation. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

Contact us here to keep disaster away from your business.

4 Technology Trends You Need To Know in 2020

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Technology Trends 2020

4 Technology Trends You Need To Know in 2020

Technology will always be growing faster every year. It is true that technology played one of the most crucial roles on a business or industry. That’s why enterprises should be aware of the technology improvement.

According to the research, here are 4 Technology Trends You Need To Know in 2020;

  1. Analytics

According to Forbes, companies that still aren’t investing heavily in analytics by 2020 probably won’t be in business in 2021. There is simply far too much valuable customer data to be collected, processed and turned into insights for any company to remain competitive without making full use of modern analytics tools. Flying blind and following your gut are no longer viable options when every other business is leveraging sophisticated analytics tools to identify problems, opportunities, and solutions.

  1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

If you are going to invest in analytics, you also need to invest in AI and machine learning to be able to navigate the vast, churning seas of information and data you aim to put to good use. The value of AI and machine learning to data analytics can be distilled into three separate value propositions: speed, scale, and convenience. Speed and scale speak to the advantage of automating the analysis of massive data sets as opposed to assigning human data analysts to the task.

  1. Internet of Things

It is believed that Internet of Things (IoT) will give impact to work performance on a business activities. It is also used for digital transformation. On industry 4.0, Intelligent Transportation System and Smart City are the examples of industry that used IoT as their enabler. The trend is already impactful to modern business and predicted to extend in the future.

  1. Cloud Computing

With its abilities to scale, flexible, and efficient, cloud computing became popular on the past year and predicted to grow in 2020 especially for Infrastructure as a Service cloud. According to Gartner forecast, IaaS secures highest growth in 2020 due to datacenter consolidation.

Zettagrid Indonesia is an IaaS cloud provider that committed to help you to grow your business on this digital transformation era. With automation that we offer, we simplify your cloud experience. We also help you to reduce your IT cost as we have fixed monthly subscription and avoid you from bill-shock.

If you are interested in trying our products, please contact us here.

3 Things to Consider in Keeping Your IT Resilient During Shopping Season

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IT Resilient During the Shopping Season

3 Things to Consider in Keeping Your IT Resilient During Shopping Season

2020 is upon us and thus it’s the year-end sale season again. This is the prime time for people to checking off their shopping lists. For those seeking for deals and discounts, this is the time. For one, the National Online Shopping Day (HARBOLNAS) in Indonesia will be held on 12 December. But whether your business is online or offline, this the period where IT department are on high alert and preparing for a “Frenzy” time.

From promotional content, marketing emails, or any other materials that will increase traffic on your websites and stores, those will just open more risk of vulnerability and attack surface for data and IT systems. Any weaknesses that are small enough on any time of the year, will be amplified and surfaced. On this shopping season, make sure that your business has the resilience to face the high traffic without a scratch. Here are 3 things that you should prepare to keep up your business with the year-end sale season traffic:

  • Prepare your IT infrastructure

Be ready to scale up for the increase in traffic. It’s not that easy to add more hardware at will. But with the advent of cloud (Infrastructure as a Service), you can get a cost-effective way to ensure your applications are ready to meet demands by increasing resources based on need and load-balancing across multiple servers. Once you have the right infrastructure in place, make sure to stress test it thoroughly and regularly so you’re confident it can handle even the craziest of shopping days.

  • Prepare your team for the IT storm

On this period, make sure your IT team and IT vendor partners are equipped and know what to do in different disaster scenarios, even when small issues arise and just managing the inflow. It is more important than ever for optimal customer service. Give them the plans and tools to deal with potential issues with grace and poise long before they are thrown into the fray. Make sure that your internet provider, your cloud partner, and your IT staff are ready as well. In the event of disaster, making sure everyone prepares for what could happen is paramount.

  • Keep your systems online and resilient

With sales at their peak, the cost of downtime is also at its highest around HARBOLNAS. Assuring that your process-critical data and applications can be recovered as fast as possible, with minimal data gaps, is so important right now. By using DRaaS solution from Zettagrid Indonesia, you can recover your systems within minutes even seconds if a disaster or outage strikes. Issues will arise when your entire business is pushed to its limit—make sure that it has the resilience to bounce back from even the worst-case scenario.

Sources: Zerto

Getting Know More About RPO and RTO

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RPO and RTO

Getting Know More About RPO and RTO

Downtime can be a big problem if you are running a critical business operation. It’s something that could happened at any time, might cause lost revenue and even your customer. Cybercrimes, power outage, fire, flood, or earthquake are just several events that may cause downtime and data loss. To have a sustainable business, you need to prepare yourself. One important thing to have is a solid Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan.

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) are two important parameters that could define BCDR plan. So, what is RPO and RTO?

RPO and RTO

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is focused on data and your company loss tolerance in relation to your data. RPO limits how far to roll back in time and defines the maximum allowable amount of lost data measured in time from a downtime to the last valid backup.

For instance, in financial business, one hour of data loss could be a disaster as they operate live transactions. Another example is when you are running an e-commerce/marketplace business, one hour you lose your data, you might be lost your orders and your potential customers. RPO is about how much of data that you willing to lose before it affects your work when your systems are crashes.

On the other hand, Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is focused on downtime and how long it takes to recover after a disaster happened. For example, in a ride hailing business, how long it takes for an app to back to normal after a downtime is critical because a minute you got downtime, you might missed a lot of orders from your customers and end up they will choose another ride hailing app to provide their needs.

Zettagrid Indonesia delivers a comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery solutions that provide data recovery, fault tolerance and high availability. We making disaster recovery easier and financially friendly by offering varieties of DR solutions that suit with your business needs. Contact us at sales@zettagrid.id for more information.

 

Sources: Techadvisory.org, Veeam

Why Disaster Recovery Becomes Critical For Your Business?

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Disaster Recovery

Why Disaster Recovery Becomes Critical For Your Business?

Disaster recovery becomes one of critical needs almost in every industry. The National Archives and Records Administration reports that 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster, filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. In addition, 43 percent of companies that do not have a disaster recovery plan will go out of business in the aftermath of major data loss. Here are the the benefits of using Disaster Recovery;

Stay Safe against the Effects of Natural Disasters:

Natural disasters can occur anytime and in any form such as; earthquake, flood, hurricane, or other extreme disaster which are unpredictable. Your business can face devastating downtime when such disasters occur. The National Archives and Records Administration has found that above 90% of the organizations that experience minimum 7 days downtime, go out of business within a year. Disaster Recovery will protect your data and ensure your business is not compromised with downtime.

 

Reduce the Impact of Cyber Attacks:

Disaster Recovery assists in minimizing the impact of attacks and risks by cyber criminals. As the data generated everyday is increasing, criminals are also expanding their techniques to attack small businesses that they think are susceptible. The overall weak security maintained by several small businesses makes them an easy goal for attacks and probes.

 

System Failure:

A system like the hardware, machines or other components might fail. However you buy the system with a guarantee of 99% uptime, it will certainly encounter issues after some time and experience at least some downtime. Even if you spend hard on technology, no solution is a perfect one. Therefore, businesses need to invest in robust disaster recovery that can support all of these risks.

Take a look at our disaster recovery solution here

 

Sources: Unitrends, Milesweb

The Benefits Of Cloud In Healthcare Industry

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Healthcare Industry

 

The Benefits Of Cloud In Healthcare Industry

A recent report published by Acumen Research and Consulting stated that cloud computing is becoming mainstream in healthcare industry with spending expected to grow above 14% annually. While data privacy may have kept many organizations from moving apps and data to the cloud, many hospitals in Indonesia are embracing the cloud since it has several benefits to improve their workflow. So, what are the key benefits that cloud services has to offer them?

Streamlined Collaboration.

In many cases specific information may be needed in more than one place, simultaneously, by different healthcare professionals. Cloud technologies enables the information to be synchronized and shared in real time. Furthermore, cloud services have a lot of collaboration tools to offer, allowing doctors to save valuable time.

Agility

Cloud-based tools can upgrade and improve their features faster, less expensively and with minimal or no service interruption. Plus, cloud services enable faster access to important information for healthcare professionals and their patients.

Flexible

Each mobile app is backed up by a cloud infrastructure. By storing data and computing power in the cloud, healthcare service providers enable their staff to have access to information anywhere and anytime.

Saving On Data Storage

Big data has become an overwhelming challenge for many health organizations, and the cloud allows providers to save money by minimizing in-house storage needs.

The information also becomes more accessible from various locations, and even if something happens on-site, the data is still preserved.

Reducing costs

There is no need for the health care institution and doctors to invest in hardware infrastructure and maintenance because these concerns are already taken care of by the cloud computing providers.

Getting curious about the role of cloud in healthcare industry? Let’s find out more about our event in collaboration with APTIKNAS. Thursday, 12 September 2019 from 2-7 PM at Hotel Sahid Surabaya. Our team will be ready to guide you on what you need to improve your Hospital IT infrastructure! Register now at marketing@zettagrid.id with subject “CLOUDTALKSUB” . See you there!

 

Sources: Forbes, CloudTech

How Cloud Characteristics Meets Traditional IT Goals?

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Cloud Characteristic

As organization move critical compute, storage, and application system to cloud providers, several additional attributes or characteristics have become more of an emphasis. The following list of cloud characteristics apply to IT organization in general even if an organization isn’t yet shifting to a cloud environment;

 

Real-time statistics, monitoring, and metering of services (transparency into the cloud environment)

Company needs to transitioned some or all of their applications into the cloud, so some form of visibility into the cloud environment is essential for a successful experience. This includes real-time monitoring of service status, metered resource utilization dashboards, and service-level agreement (SLA) reporting scorecards.

 

Self-service management

As applications are moved to the cloud, organizations want the ability to manage their account and application settings without having to submit a helpdesk ticket for routine tasks. This is often an overlooked or underestimated feature of a successful cloud offering.

 

Role-based security for multilevel administration

User roles are defined within the cloud management system to allow placing orders, approving orders, or managing service subscriptions. These roles also define the visibility of service between users, so multiple organizations or tenants cannot see one another.

 

24/7 support and escalation to a single provider

Users are looking for the provider to fully support all the services and resources hosted in the cloud. Cloud providers typical provide all backend datacentre and server farm management. But the user also needs the ability to escalate real and perceived user and access issues to provider. Zettagrid Indonesia offers 24/7 customer support, so if you need assistant for your cloud, you can contact us in every time, in every channel.

 

For more information, you can contact us here or email us at sales@zettagrid.id

 

*source The Enterprise Cloud – James Bond, 2015

Here Are 5 Characteristics of Cloud

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Characteristics Cloud

Here Are 5 Characteristics of Cloud

Before you use cloud, let’s learn more about 5 characteristics of cloud that you should know;

On-demand self service

An organization can order cloud services with automated provisioning of the needed computing, storage, network, and applications from the cloud provider. This includes the ability to expand services or resources as needed automatically or as requested by the organization. This also entails the ability to rapidly scale up or scale down as needs change.

 

Resources pooling

Multiple users share all resources within a specific cloud deployment. The level of sharing or dedicated resources to each user can vary depending on the cloud deployment model. Virtualization of compute, storage, networking, and applications are often utilized to separate one tenant (user) from another. Access controls are in place to maintain separation of user data from all other users. The location of resources is often spread across multiple physical datacenters, and depending on the cloud deployment model, the location of hosted resources might not even be known or specified by the user.

 

Rapid Elasticity

You can scale out services rapidly, with increased capacity or additional compute, memory, storage, and network resources giving the impression of unlimited resources availability. You can also reduce resources when workload utilization decreases.

 

Broad Network Access

Cloud services are provided over any combination of private network communication circuits or the open internet, depending on the cloud deployment model and the specifications of cloud provider’s offering. You can make the cloud resources available to or hidden from a wide variety of computers (thick or thin client), laptops, mobile devices tablets, and smart phones.

 

Measured service

Services are billed on pay per use basis as determined by metering of consumed resources such as compute, storage, network, or applications. You can measure and monitor all resource usage and establish potential limits or pay as used expansion of resources as needed.

 

Contact us to getting know more about cloud!

 

*source The Enterprise Cloud – James Bond, 2015

New VDC Backup – Another Global First

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VDC Backup – Another Global First (Veeam + vCloud Director)

 

We are pleased to announce the launch of VDC Backup today. The backup service is a global first and seamlessly integrates Veeam Backup and Recovery Enterprise Plus into VMware’s vCloud Director. This new product is fully automated and completely self-service.

Here is a general comparison between our existing backup product called ImageArchive and the new VDC Backup.

VDC Backup

Continued Use of Image Archive

You can continue to use ImageArchive. This service will continue to be required for VPS and will continue to support Virtual Data Centres.

 

Migration From ImageArchive to VDC Backup

It is important to note that backup jobs are not transferable between ImageArchive and VDC Backup. New jobs need to be created in VDC Backup. We expect that you will create new jobs in this new product and stop jobs on ImageArchive. You will likely keep historical ImageArchive backups for some time until they are aged out and then cancel the ImageArchive service.

 

End User Access

All VDC Customers will get a new option to in the vCloud Director portal from which they can order and manage the service.

VDC Backups

 

The powerful granular functionality enables customers to manage all aspects of data backup and recovery.

vDC Backup

 

vDC Backup

vDC Backup

Try our new product now! For more information contact us at sales@zettagrid.id or click this link