Are You New to Virtual Data Center? Here Is Simple Guide to Start It

Virtual Data Center

Own A World Class Data Center at Your Finger Tips

Virtual Data Center (VDC) simplifies your first step to a fully virtualized data center architecture by allowing you to rapidly provision and easily manage pool of virtual machines/servers for every business needs. Forget predefined instance sizes and avoid the complexity of networking and security as your flexibly scale up and scale down the virtual resources without breaking the bank.

Once you have purchased your Virtual Data Centre it will be instantly available. Your pool of resources will be ready to go and before you jump straight in and start creating your environment, we recommend you read this page to decide how you want to structure your data center. This information could save you a lot of time in the future.

VDC is beneficial to virtually any business needs, such as R&D/pilot projects, file servers, email, ERP system, custom applications and active directory.

Ready to start the journey of VDC? Here is the simple guide to start it StartVDC

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Learn How to Quick Setup SecondSite DRaaS with Simple Steps

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Experience An Instant, Simple and Reliable Disaster Recovery with SecondSite DRaaS

SecondSite DRaaS simplifies your disaster recovery/business continuity strategy. Delivered through cloud, the service allows you to rapidly deploy a disaster recovery site without owning the technology, buying hardware and training personnel for your secondary site. Excluding failover, failback and disaster recovery processes is just one click away.

Built on the award-winning Zerto platform, the solution creates redundancy for mission critical applications and data which you need to recover quickly when catastrophic events, such as hardware failure, human error, natural disasters and power failure, occur. It enables near real time DR failover and failback with RPO’s of only seconds and RTO’s of few minutes.

This service suits all business due to it’s scalability. Whether you are protecting one VM or 1,000 VMs. Secondsite DR stays as reliable and affordable solution for small business and large enterprises.

Learn more how to quick setup SecondSite DRaaS by clicking this link QuickSetup

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A Comprehensive Cloud IaaS For Your Business Continuity

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Why Zettagrid?

These are some of the common concerns towards public cloud adoption:

  • Compatibility with the existing on-premises infrastructure and or cloud platform
  • Lack of cloud computing capabilities
  • Data security and networking policies
  • SLA & performance
  • Unpredictable billing & hidden cost
  • Customer support

Responding to these concerns, Zettagrid brings the most advanced self-service cloud infrastructure (IaaS) platform to Indonesia. Truly automated, easy to use, and super scalable, Zettagrid platform helps customers to enjoy the true benefits of cloud computing.

There are several important reasons why Zettagrid is the best cloud choice;

  • Fully flexible cloud. Zettagrid’s VM lets you customize virtual servers to match exactly what you need and pay only for the resources you are going to use.
  • No complex charge. Unlike other cloud providers, Zettagrid doesn’t charge for IOPs, Reads/Writes, PUTs, GETs, and all of the other typical nasty cloud complexities. You will receive only one simple monthly charge for your cloud and network usage.
  • Enterprise Technology with Simple Management. Zettagrid’s cloud infrastructure is powered by VMware vCloud Director platform with simple management from our portal.
  • Predictable Billing. You are in a full control of your expenses and will never experience a bill shock. Volume and term discounts are available above our retail pricing.
  • Love Us or Leave Us. No contract is the key element to Zettagrid’s cloud computing philosophy. Customers always have a freedom of choice and we set out to keep you happy in retaining your business.
  • Local Expert Support. Two availability zones residing in Indonesia and operating with 24/7 support from the local expert team will keep and secure your data within the national boundary.
  • Secure and Certified. ISO and PCI certified cloud will surely give you a service to meet your security and compliance expectation. It is simply a peace of mind.

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5 Reasons Why Backing Up Your Cloud is Critical

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There is a common misconception that hosting services on a cloud platform protects you from disasters which plagued traditional IT environments. Cloud services do offer a higher level of uptime assurance due to the redundancies built into the cloud technology platform. In addition, the power, networking and cooling safeguards which insulate cloud data centers also protect you from general infrastructure related risks.

Confirming you can restore lost data ensures not only that your business can recover, but that it also survives a data loss incident. Cloud environments simply do not offer the data protection you need since backing up data is not part of a standard cloud hosting service.

There are many potential incidents which could lead to a data loss event in a cloud environment. In fact, cloud hosted data is vulnerable to the same potential risk factors found in traditional on premises environments.

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Journey To Industry 4.0

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Zettagrid have commitment to support the implementation of Industry 4.0 in Indonesia. Zettagrid is enterprise cloud service provider who become a primary partner for their customer to face the journey towards industry 4.0. For more information about Zettagrid product, please contact sales@zettagrid.id or directly call to +62-811-28-38-78.

 

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Multiple Availability Zones. What Does This Mean For Your Business?

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Risk is inherent in any undertaking and the risk of IT failure in business is a threat organisations need to take seriously. There are dire consequences for not having some form of risk mitigation in place for IT failures.

Data Protection + High Availability = Business Survival

IT failures are unpredictable and could originate from anywhere

There are many potential failures which could affect an IT environment. These failures could be as a result of local failure incidents such as user errors, hardware component or full system failures. Failures could also result from full environment-wide disasters which could range from a full data centre or site failure to a catastrophe negatively impacting an entire city or region.

Backups first

Data and System backups are the bare minima an organisation needs when implementing a risk mitigation strategy for IT failures and disasters. However, in a world where uptime is directly related to profit and reputation, legacy backups will no longer suffice.

Disaster Recovery next

Businesses today at very least need an enterprise-grade disaster recovery solution. However, to ensure maximum uptime and true resilience in the face of a disaster, businesses should augment their disaster recovery solution with a robust and resilient business continuity service enabled and delivered through high availability.

Ultimately you need Business Continuity

True disaster recovery business continuity solutions must mitigate all downtime risks and ensure systems remain available. Each risk, no matter its size, origin or impact affects the availability of online systems.

Failures which impact the availability of online systems have a real business impact and could affect the viability of a going concern due to the negative effect system down time has on revenue and brand reputation.

Cloud Disaster Recovery is resilient and affordable

Cloud service providers like Zettagrid offer industry leading cloud-based disaster recovery business continuity solutions at a cost affordable to most organisations.

Service providers must ensure they build redundancy into their platform

True enterprise cloud disaster recovery business continuity service providers need to have their own built-in redundancy to ensure they can offer their customers true high-availability.

Zettagrid meets these criteria and guarantees its service through its multiple availability zones.

Service providers also need to have geo-redundancy

Enterprise disaster recovery solutions commit to high levels of redundancy and availability to mitigate against predictable downtime risks such as user error or hardware failure.

However, it is often large-scale unpredictable disasters such as floods, earthquakes, tsunamis etc. which could have the largest negative impact on most businesses. To mitigate this risk, cloud service providers need to ensure they have a geographically dispersed redundant platform.

Zettagrid leads the way with geo-redundant availability zones

Zettagrid runs multiple availability zones, located in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Jakarta and Cibitung with each running separate isolated instances of their infrastructure to mitigate the risk of a large-scale disaster affecting an entire city or region.

These multiple availability zones not only protect the Zettagrid cloud but also contain key benefits for Zettagrid customers.

Find out more information about Zettagrid cloud service by visiting the Zettagrid Indonesia website.

*This article originally taken from blog.zettagrid.com

How Scalable Licensing And Infrastructure Benefits Your Business

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Scalability = Operational Flexibility

Scalability is a systems characteristic which enables a platform hosting a system to automatically muster additional computing resources as the system workload increases.

In a cloud world, a scalable system is a system which is able to automatically provision additional computing resources such as processor, memory and bandwidth as the demand for computing resources from the hosted system increases.

Scalability meets user expectations

Users interacting with online services expect systems to be perpetually available, function at peak performance levels and have a user interface design which is aesthetically pleasing, intuitive and simple to use.

Scalability’s purpose as a feature of online services is to ensure a system is able to function at the performance levels expected by its users.

Scalability and its impact on availability

Downtime in an online world is not good for business. Ensuring systems availability has multiple real-world business benefits which impact the profitability and brand reputation of an organisation.

In today’s business world, all revenue-based transactions are processed via an IT system or application. This is true for both online e-commerce type transactions as well as traditional invoice runs on an in-house financial application. If a revenue-generating system is down the business cannot make money.

Scalability ensures online systems availability during periods where services are under heavy load. Services which are not able to scale will ultimately stop responding and go offline when all the allocated computing resources for the system have been consumed. The system can only start responding again if existing locked resources are released or additional resources added.

Scalability, therefore, benefits businesses by ensuring services and applications stay online and functional.

Poor performance and unavailability are punished in an online world

Most modern organisations interact with their customers through some form of online platform.

Social media has enabled organisations to interact with their customers on many different levels which have strengthened customer relationships. However, social media has also given consumers a platform to voice their grievances to the organisation while broadcasting these to other customers.

Poor application performance and service unavailability are heavily punished on social media. Businesses should, therefore, ensure they constantly strive to deliver an online service which performs well above the expectations set by its users.

By configuring their applications with a scalable architecture, organisations can ensure their applications perform admirably under heavy load.

Zettagrid’s cloud is built for scalability

Delivering Australia’s most advanced self-service cloud hosting platform with solutions such as application hosting as well as public, private and hybrid cloud offerings, Zettagrid is well placed to resolve scalability issues for businesses.

Organisations have the option to provision their services on Zettagrid’s cloud platform by subscribing to their virtual data centre or virtual server services which are built on VMware.

Zettagrid virtual servers have the added benefit of being fully customizable and give users the option to configure the computing resources of their virtual machine as they see fit with no templates or images which lock them down to specific configurations.
Should customers ever need to scale a Zettagrid virtual server they can easily do so at any time via the Zettagrid self-service portal.

Create a hybrid cloud with Zettagrid to facilitate on-premise scalability

Organisations could opt to create a hybrid cloud between their on-premise private cloud and the Zettagrid platform. This configuration gives customers the flexibility to move workloads between their two environments as demand fluctuates.

For periods of high demand, they can run their workload on Zettagrid’s platform which can scale to the resource requirements required.

Once demand decreases customers can simply migrate their workloads back to their private on-premise private cloud.

Scalability is good for business

The business benefits of scalability are clear and tangible. Scalability ensures you can make money and keep your customers happy when your systems are at their busiest.  Scalability is a major business benefit delivered by Zettagrid cloud. Organisations can rest assured that their systems stay online and responsive when they need them to.

Find out more information about Zettagrid cloud service by visiting the Zettagrid Indonesia website.

*This article originally taken from blog.zettagrid.com

Monitor Your Infrastructure With Real Time Metrics, How To?

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Proactive IT environment monitoring is essential in an online world where business success is equal to system uptime. Proactive monitoring means improved availability.

Organisations need to monitor their IT environments to ensure they are running optimally and identify any issues which could cause a failure down the line. In addition, IT environment health monitoring gives organisations the peace of mind they are providing an efficient and consistent service to their end users.

Total visibility of all interdependent systems is vital

In any IT environment problems which may cause service interruption are not immediately visible and tend to build up over a period of time.

Having total visibility of IT infrastructure services and their interdependencies is paramount in preventing issues and helps organisations make informed decisions about their IT environment.

Monitoring helps gather data and set performance benchmarks

IT infrastructure monitoring is not the only key to ensuring proactive alerting of negative incidents. Monitoring and gathering performance data over time is a key input into shaping IT strategy. As technology changes and business needs evolve monitoring IT infrastructure enables organisations to benchmark their IT systems performance and then use this information to plan for upgrades, enhancements and migrations.

Proactive analysis of IT system means organisations have a better chance of preventing major disruptions. Regular health checks on infrastructure and alerts which indicate where certain measurements are deviating from historical benchmarks can identify any discrepancies within systems and assist in proactively rectifying issues before they negatively impact business operations. The key outcome of proactive monitoring is the focus and effort of IT operations have shifted from fighting fires to preventing outages.

IT monitoring can also aid organisations in fine-tuning their infrastructure to ensure peak performance and efficiency is achieved. Close monitoring can highlight how systems interact and proactively identify any areas that are vulnerable or underperforming. By identifying bottlenecks and potential areas of danger, organisations can then use this information to enhance their services and prevent any system outages.

Monitoring is not an IT activity, it’s a business tool

Effective IT infrastructure monitoring enables data driven decision making, identifies issues early, improves the productivity and performance of IT systems, helps organisations plan for growth and ultimately helps prevent or reduce the negative effects of system downtime.

Zettagrid monitoring delivers insights

Zettagrid gives customers access to real-time monitoring of their entire environment through their status page. This service also gives customers the option to subscribe to updates which proactively alerts them should any incident occur which may have an impact on their environment.

The Zettagrid real-time status reports give customers a view of the current state of the primary Zettagrid services such as the operations centre, internet transit and DNS status. In addition, this dashboard also monitors the principal services at each of the Zettagrid locations in Australia and Jakarta.

Scheduled maintenance notices give customers prior notice to any maintenance being done on the Zettagrid platform which may affect their running services and real-time system metrics provide insight into the current bandwidth network utilisation.

Zettagrid also posts past incidents on their status page which give details into incidents which have affected the Zettagrid platform and how these were resolved, giving their customers full transparency into the environment running their critical IT services.

Real-time monitoring and historical metrics, 24/7

Customers are also able to monitor the real-time metrics of their Zettagrid services via the Zettagrid self-service portal.

Real-time and historical metrics are available at any time, so customers can monitor the performance of their virtual machines.

Ready to get your finger on the pulse with real-time monitoring?

Contact us to discuss how real-time monitoring metrics can improve your business decision making.

We’re happy to help.

Find out more information about Zettagrid cloud service by visiting the Zettagrid Indonesia website.

*This article originally taken from blog.zettagrid.com

Future of Mobility: The Employee Experience Finally Improves

 

As mobile technologies advance in the workplace, how will the employee experience evolve—and IT along with it?

Noah Wasmer, Senior Vice President and Co-General Manager, VMware End-User Computing

 

For years, I’ve said the future of mobility will be the reason people love their work again.

There are parts of work people love—and parts of our work they hate. I believe technology advances will dramatically simplify processes and streamline day-to-day tasks—the dull work. These innovations will help eliminate mundane tasks, such as expense reports and meeting invites. This will enable employees to fast-forward to more important, challenging and rewarding work—the deep work.

I also see technology enriching the work employees love. Work apps are becoming more like their personal apps with intuitive, ergonomic experiences. As companies adopt modern app experiences, employees can work anytime, anywhere and on any device—taking advantage of their most productive, creative moments.

This is our mission at VMware. We focus on helping employees connect and share information in more efficient and intelligent ways, such as:

  • A car insurance adjuster who instantly uploads photos with an easy-to-use mobile app, instead of filling out paperwork on a laptop.
  • A doctor who immediately accesses patient data by securely accessing a virtual workstation on any computer or mobile device.
  • A saleswoman who receives a client email and automatically receives insights from her customer relationship management (CRM) software.
  • A manufacturing employee who works hands-free using augmented reality (AR), instead of stopping work to review how-to instructions.

These positive employee experiences result in major benefits to customers, as well. Consider:

  • The driver from that accident can repair their car faster because the insurance company provided near-instant mobile coverage details.
  • The patient feels less rushed and more cared for by their doctor, who spends less time behind a computer screen.
  • The prospective customer receives a prompt, personalized reply about the right solution for their needs.
  • The consumer purchases a well-made product from the manufacturer at a more competitive price, because of the more efficient AR-enabled production workflow.

As employees enjoy new and more meaningful work, customers also enjoy new and more meaningful experiences with businesses. Just look at what’s happening at ANZ BankMercy and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Evolving to a Culture of Trust and Empowerment

For some organizations, the company-wide commitment to putting employees first begins with onboarding and continues all the way through retirement. These initiatives force IT to evolve from a culture of command and control to a culture of employee trust and empowerment.

For example, we’re seeing the importance of choice in attracting and retaining top employee talent. Increasingly, before a new hire even steps foot in the office, businesses ask employees which tools and apps they want and need to be most successful. Some new employee agreements now include device and app preferences. These tools are delivered to their homes, helping employees be productive on day one.

This is tremendous progress for organizations. Yet, it’s more than just automating paper-based processes or streamlining onboarding. Building a culture of trust and empowerment changes the way everyone works. It connects people to the right apps, backend systems and digital resources when needed the most. Ultimately, this helps employees focus on what they do best—and the work they love the most.

What’s Next for Mobility and the Employee Experience

The race to gain and maintain a competitive edge drives some companies to evolve faster than others in the name of innovation. However, organizations that ignore employee preferences will fall behind those that listen to and empower their employees.

Work seems, well, less like work without all the friction. Mobility helps employees work smarter with access to the tools and data they need, when and where they need it. That’s both personally and professionally fulfilling. When everyday tasks get done faster, there’s time to work on solving harder, more complex problems. That truly helps employees enjoy what they do.

As a result, companies reach new levels of success, as my colleague Shankar Iyer explains here. Shankar and I talked more about delivering what employees want and need during VMworldWatch our on-demand showcase keynote now, and follow the #VMworld conversation online, to hear about our platform approach to employee empowerment, along with human-centered design.

 

Sources: VMware/Radius

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Understanding Veeam Availability Orchestrator terminology

When it comes to creating disaster recovery (DR) plans, Veeam Availability Orchestrator makes it easy to ensure your data is available when disaster strikes. Beyond creating what we call a Failover Plan in Veeam Availability Orchestrator, we also ensure that our DR plans are tested successfully on a regular basis, with the documentation to prove it. This documentation can also be used for compliance, auditing, and ensuring members of an organization know the state of the DR plan at all times.

You may be asking yourself, “What is a Failover Plan?” after reading the first paragraph of this post. Don’t worry, we are about to explore what they are, as well as other terms we commonly use when talking about Veeam Availability Orchestrator.

Failover Plan is what is created in Veeam Availability Orchestrator to protect applications. The Failover Plan is central to an organization’s DR plan. The goal of the Failover Plan is to make failovers (and fail backs) as simple as possible. Within a Failover Plan, there are a number of Plan Components, which are added to the Failover Plan to meet the business’ requirements.

VM Groups contain the virtual machines (VMs) we are ensuring Hyper-Availability for in the event of a disaster. The VM Groups are powered by VMware vSphere Tags. VMs are simply tagged in vCenter, and the vSphere Tag name will appear in Veeam Availability Orchestrator as shown in the screenshot above. Plan Steps are the steps taken on the VMs during a failover. This includes a number of Application Verification steps available out of the box including verification of applications such as Exchange, SQL, IIS, Domain Controllers, and DNS. Credentials for verifying the applications are also one of the plan components. In addition to these built in application verification tests, Custom Steps can also be added to the Plan Components, allowing organizations to leverage already existing DR scripts.

Template Jobs ensure data is backed up and kept available during a failover scenario. They are created in Veeam Backup & Replication and then added to a Failover Plan during creation. Another big component of a Failover Plan is a Virtual Lab, which we refer to as a Veeam Data Lab. Veeam Data Labs allow for an isolated copy of a production application to be created and tested against. When we are finished using this copy of the data, we simply delete it without ever having impacted or changed our actual production data. This allows for Virtual Lab Tests to be performed to prove recoverability, and the corresponding Test Execution Report to be generated.

We all know how difficult testing DR plans used to be. We would spend a few days locked in the data center, without even getting the applications running correctly. We would say it would get fixed “next time,” but we all know the truth was often that these broken DR plans were never fixed. Veeam Availability Orchestrator removes this overhead, and allows for quick and easy testing without impacting production. In the event a test fails, the Test Execution Report shows us exactly what went wrong so we can fix it.

Before we run a Virtual Lab Test, we first run a Readiness Check on our Failover Plan, and yes, this also comes with a Readiness Check Report so we can easily see the state of our DR plan. This is a lightweight test that is performed to ensure we are ready to failover at a moment’s notice. Best of all, this check can be scheduled to run daily, along with a Plan Definition Report. The Plan Definition Report shows us exactly what is in a Failover Plan, including the VMs in a VM Group and all of our Plan Steps. This report also shows any changes so we have a full audit trail of our DR plan.

As you can tell by this image, our Failover Plans are ready in the event of a failover. They are listed as a “verified” state which means we have successfully run a Virtual Lab Test and a Readiness Check, both of which can be scheduled to run as often as we would like. We can also ensure reports are sent to key stakeholders when the checks are run.

In the event of a failover, which we can trigger on demand or schedule, an Execution Report will be generated. This will detail the steps taken as part of the Failover Plan on the VMs in a VM Group, and show that the application has been successfully verified and is running in the DR site. We know the execution of a Failover Plan will be successful since we have already tested it successfully.

Sources: Veeam Blog

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