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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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 

Tetap Aman Dengan Cloud Dikala Blackout Melanda

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Tetap Aman Dengan Cloud Dikala Blackout Melanda

 

Peristiwa mati listrik atau black out adalah peristiwa yang cukup berbahaya bagi para pelaku bisnis. Tentunya hal ini merupakan bencana terutama pada bidang IT infrastruktur. Jika tidak memiliki daya listrik, data-data penting yang anda miliki bisa saja hilang. Berdasarkan survey yang dilakukan oleh “The Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council” pada tahun 2014, kegagalan pada sumber daya listrik adalah penyebab ke 3 hilangnya layanan atau data.

Tapi anda tidak perlu khawatir, dengan Zettagrid Indonesia, anda dapat tidur lebih nyenyak di malam hari karena kami siap membantu anda untuk memberikan solusi melalui produk  yang kami tawarkan. Berikut 3 alasan mengapa Zettagrid Indonesia adalah penyedia cloud provider yang kredibel walaupun bencana black out datang seketika;

 

  1. Ketersediaan sumber daya listrik cadangan

Zettagrid Indonesia memiliki data center dengan kapasitas UPS/Baterai yang cukup untuk mengatasi gangguan istrik sesaat dan juga masa transisi sebelum sumber listrik cadangan mengambil alih. Kemudian Data center tersebut juga tidak bergantung pada satu sumber penyedia layanan listrik saja, tetapi mereka telah memiliki sumber listrik cadangan yang dapat memenuhi kebutuhan data center tersebut.

 

  1. Layanan Customer Service 24/7

Zettagrid Indonesia menawarkan layanan customer service 24/7. Anda tidak perlu khawatir jika anda mengalami problem, team customer service kami dapat dihubungi melalui telepon, e-mail, bahkan Whatsapp jika sewaktu-waktu dibutuhkan.

 

  1. Data Center Tier IV

Zettagrid telah mempersiapkan infrastruktur cloud nya dengan memilih Data Center dengan kriteria Tier III dan Tier IV. Data Center dengan kriteria Tier III telah melengkapi semua perlengkapannya dengan sumber daya listrik cadangan. Sedangkan Data Center dengan kriteria Tier IV sudah dilengkapi dengan peralatan cadangan (cooling, uplink, sirkulasi, dll), sehingga bila salah satu peralatan mengalami gangguan, tidak akan berdampak pada operasional Data Center. Selain itu Zettagrid juga memiliki 2 zona layanan dengan opsi “Interzone Replication”, sehingga pelanggan memiliki pilihan untuk mengaktifkan fitur tersebut untuk mendapatkan “zero point of failure”.

 

Untuk Informasi lebih lanjut, hubungi kami di link ini.

Why Cloud Is Important In Smart Manufacturing?

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Smart Manufacturing

 

Why Cloud is Important in Smart Manufacturing?

 

The wave of Industrial Revolution 4.0 has started. Several developments will occur in every aspects of economic activities, including the manufacturing sector. In the future, a factory will turn digital and embraces machine to machine communication that we called Smart Manufacturing.

 

To support Smart Manufacturing, Zettagrid Indonesia in collaboration with Asosiasi Pengusaha TIK Nasional (APTIKNAS) just held an event named Cloud Talk: Smart Manufacturing. This event placed at Grand Edge Hotel Semarang on 25 July 2019.

Smart Manufacturing

Here we talk about how cloud infrastructure is set to become the important solution for manufacturing industry to implement Smart Manufacturing. With its flexibility to store and manage the expanse of machine data, manufacturing industry can focus on their core business while transforming into agile, digital company. In case you missed the event, here are 4 obvious reasons why cloud is important in smart manufacturing;

  1. Improve Quality

Cloud helps manufacturers manage their business with better intelligence, which is made possible through expanded use of data analytics. Cloud also empowers manufacturing operations and making them more productive.

  1. Increase Agility

Cloud offers manufacturers to scale up and down to manage its shifting project workloads, which is a special important requirement in the manufacturing industry. This ability to scale on demand, ensures manufacturers only pay for their actual usage and needs.

  1. Lower IT costs

With the ability to scale up and down, cloud giving manufacturers extremely value as it saves your valuable cash investment and convert it into operating expenses. Zettagrid offers predictable billing and robust infrastructure that allows manufacturer to focus on improving business operations and innovation without worrying about their IT infrastructure.

  1. Increase Security

Even though several benefits of migration to cloud are clear, several manufacturers still have concern about data loss. In Zettagrid, we offer Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Backup as a Service (BaaS), which could protect manufacturers from cyber disaster. We are ISO and PCI certified, so manufacturers does not need to be worried about data loss.

 

Need more information about cloud and smart manufacturing? go contact us by clicking this link 

6 Tips Memilih Cloud Provider

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Tips memilih cloud provider

6 Tips memilih cloud provider by Zettagrid Indonesia

Kecanggihan teknologi yang dimiliki oleh cloud computing memunculkan banyaknya cloud service provider yang bermunculan saat ini. Namun, bagaimanakah cara untuk memilih layanan cloud yang tepat untuk kebutuhan bisnis anda? Berikut beberapa tips yang dapat anda perhatikan sebelum memilih provider.

 

  1. Cari tau dan pastikan kebutuhan anda

Seiring dengan pertumbuhan bisnis anda, anda wajib mencari tahu produk cloud apa yang anda butuhkan. Setelah anda tahu kebutuhan anda, lakukan research mengenai cloud provider yang menyediakan layanan yang anda butuhkan, lalu bandingkan satu sama lain dari berbagai aspek.

  1. Mudah Digunakan

Cloud computing memang memiliki efisiensi tinggi sebagai solusi infrastuktur IT anda, namun anda perlu memperhatikan apakah penggunaan cloud yang disediakan oleh provider anda mudah digunakan. Mudahnya penggunaan cloud akan membantu meringankan pekerjaan anda.

  1. Cari tahu bagaimana layanan customer support 

Pastikan anda berlangganan cloud yang menyediakan fasilitas customer service 24/7 tanpa hambatan. Sehingga kapanpun anda membutuhkan bantuan, provider dapat melakukan penanganan secepatnya. Cari tahu dari review orang-orang terdekat atau secara online.

  1. Pertimbangkan untuk menggunakan Cloud Backup

Cloud Backup adalah hal yang perlu dipertimbangkan jika anda memiliki on-premise server dan sistem komputasi dengan data-data yang berharga mengenai bisnis anda. Memiliki cloud backup di lokasi yang berbeda dapat menghindari anda dari resiko yang disebabkan oleh bencana maupun serangan cyber yang dapat menghapus data-data penting anda.

  1. Pembayaran yang terprediksi

Pilihlah provider yang memiliki struktur pembayaran yang simple, transparan dan terprediksi. Sehingga menghindari anda dari tagihan penggunaan layanan yang bisa membuat anda terkejut.

  1. Perhatikan reputasi cloud provider

Cari tahu reputasi dari cloud provider yang ingin anda gunakan, yaitu tingkat service level agreement (SLA), tingkat tier data center, keamanan, serta telah memiliki sertifikasi. Sehingga anda yakin jika data anda aman maka bisnis anda dapat berjalan sebagaimana mestinya.

 

Bagi anda yang masih bingung dalam menentukan cloud provider mana yang akan anda gunakan, Zettagrid bisa menjadi pilihan anda. Zettagrid memliki layanan cloud yang simple, fleksibel dan pastinya menawarkan harga yang kompetitif. Anda juga tidak perlu pusing, customer service kami dapat dihubungi 24/7 melalui telepon, e-mail, bahkan Whatsapp jika sewaktu-waktu dibutuhkan. Kontak team kami di link ini untuk info lebih lanjut.