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Cloud adoption in the enterprise is accelerating at a near breakneck pace. In what is becoming a common trend, enterprises worldwide are racing to adopt cloud technology in response to a myriad of business needs—revenue generation, improving business applications, better decision-making—to make their organizations more profitable and effective.

Further fueling this growth in cloud adoption is the pressure to create applications that work effectively in an increasingly hybridized cloud environment. The lines between private, public, and hybrid cloud are blurring, and their distinctions are becoming less relevant. “Customers want to deploy to any cloud without regard to location,” says Mike Hulme, senior director of VMware Cloud marketing. “They want a simple cloud strategy to manage complexity and risk as they work across multiple clouds.”

Business and IT leaders have traditionally spoken different languages, with goals, objectives, and priorities often in conflict with each other. But as the cloud matures, the enterprise has a set of technologies and tools that bring business and IT together. Cloud technology provides what both sides of the enterprise technology divide need to align around timelines and access to new levels of innovation, without jeopardizing any of the standard IT requirements—but only when done correctly.

The Right Way

Enterprises want the flexibility to develop any type of application, deploy it to any cloud, and deliver it to any device. When organizations introduce this degree of flexibility and heterogeneity into their IT environments, however, the level of complexity typically rises. And with rise in complexity comes a level of risk due to inconsistent security, management, and governance models. At the least, this can be a drain on efficiency while introducing unexpected costs. At worst, the security of intellectual property and customer information could be threatened.

“Accessing the kind of flexibility IT needs to drive business innovation, without introducing complexity and risk, is only possible when utilizing a consistent infrastructure and consistent set of operations,” Hulme says. “VMware delivers just this, with VMware’s cloud infrastructure operating in more than 4,000 partners across more than 100 countries worldwide.”

One Cloud Strategy

Through VMware Cloud™, enterprises gain access to a comprehensive set of cloud products and services, available on-premises or in the cloud. VMware Cloud unifies existing investments, resources, skills, and teams and allows a business to tap into the broadest set of cloud providers around the globe.

VMware’s cloud strategy also tackles head-on the fact that application development, particularly containerized (cloud-native) app development, is more demanding than ever. VMware Cloud provides the optimal stable environment for compute, storage, and networking—creating the best infrastructure environment for these applications. In addition, VMware delivers the kind of operational support, cloud services, and other investments that, until now, have been missing from cloud-native apps.

Announced this morning at VMworld, VMware is providing the resources, tools, and building blocks to satisfy what containerized applications need in production. VMware’s approach will accelerate enterprise adoption of containers and allow companies to get more value, faster, out of containerized apps.

VMware’s cloud strategy also takes aim at the silos that have traditionally existed between the data center and the cloud. VMware Cloud delivers consistent infrastructure across clouds, creating a more seamless extension of the data center to the cloud, reducing costs and effort, and creating new opportunities for customers to work across the clouds that best fit their business needs.

*This article originally taken from VMware/radius

Veeam Cloud Connect (VCC) provides a fully integrated, fast and secure way to backup, replicate and restore from the cloud. VCC ensure availability for your mission critical applications without the cost and complexity of building and maintaining a disaster recovery (DR) site. VCC, now with VM replication, provides fully integrated, fast and secure cloud based DR through service provider.

In order to educate and product update of veeam cloud connect service to partners, Zettagrid collaborate with TechData Indonesia and Veeam held 2 days partner enablement workshop, 3 & 5 April 2018.

Dolly Indra, GM Sales & Channel Partner Zettagrid Indonesia, bring a presentation about VCC implementation and benefits for business. Dolly also announce new promo called “Zettagrid April Fiesta” for partner as partner loyalty program. More info about “Zettagrid April Fiesta” keep stay tuned at www.zettagrid.id

Source: Veeam ProPartner Portal

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High Speed Recovery: Through features like Instant VM Recovery and Instant File-Level Recovery, Veeam Backup & Replication is able to provide recovery time objectives of less than 15 minutes. Veeam customers say 96% of Veeam recoveries are within their RTO SLAs, compared to 78% for other solutions. Veeam Cloud Connect benefits which include high speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, visibility report and leveraged data.

Data Loss Avoidance: Veeam provides streamlined DR and simple, secure off-site data protection, giving you the ability to achieve recovery point objectives in under 15 minutes as well.

Verified Recoverability: Veeam can guarantee recovery of every file, application or virtual server because Veeam Backup & Replication automatically tests every vSphere and replica, every time.

Leveraged Data: Through a virtual lab, you can mitigate the risks associated with application deployment by putting their backups and replicas to work in a production-like environment prior to any production roll out.

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*some information from this article is originally taken from Veeam Propartner Portal

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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.

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*This article originally taken from blog.zettagrid.com

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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, and Jakarta, 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.

*This article originally taken from blog.zettagrid.com

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