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Mengapa Bisnis Anda Membutuhkan Disaster Recovery?

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Mengapa DIsaster Recovery

Mengapa Bisnis Anda Membutuhkan DIsaster Recovery

Bisnis digital di Indonesia semakin terasa perkembangannya. Salah satu buktinya adalah posisi Indonesia sebagai negara 10 besar dengan pertumbuhan nilai perdagangan e-commerce. Hal ini diungkapkan langsung oleh Direktur Pemberdayaan Informatika, Direktorat Jenderal Aplikasi Informatika Kementerian Kominfo, Septriana Tangkary. Beliau mengatakan jika Indonesia berada di peringkat nomor 1 dunia dengan angka pertumbuhan nilai dagang 78%.

Dengan pertumbuhan yang positif ini, tentunya dibutuhkan solusi-solusi IT yang mumpuni untuk mendukung sistem IT bisnis yang reliable. Salah satunya adalah dengan penggunaan solusi Disaster Recovery. Dengan menggunakan Disaster Recovery, bisnis anda dapat terhindar dari kejadian-kejadian yang tidak terduga seperti bencana alam dan kebakaran, selain itu anda juga dapat menghindari downtime yang berkepanjangan. Mau tau lebih lanjut mengapa bisnis anda membutuhkan solusi ini? Yuk simak bahasan berikut ini:

 

  • Menghindari dari bencana yang tak terduga

Pernahkan anda mendengar berita mengenai gedung data center yang terbakar beberapa waktu lalu? Bayangkan jika hal itu terjadi pada bisnis anda dan pada saat itu anda sedang melakukan sistem development ataupun kegiatan penting lainnya. Jika anda belum memiliki solusi Disaster Recovery, anda tidak dapat terhindar dari server yang mati beberapa hari. Apalagi jika penyebabnya adalah kebakaran yang pastinya akan membutuhkan waktu yang cukup lama untuk mengembalikan bisnis anda kembali normal. Dengan Disaster Recovery, hal ini dapat di minimalisir, karena server anda akan tetap berjalan di cloud (off-site).

  • Mencegah terjadinya kehilangan data serta meminimalisir terjadinya downtime

Human error atau kesalahan manusia juga termasuk alasan mengapa anda membutuhkan Disaster Recovery. Misalnya anda sedang membangun suatu sistem di website atau aplikasi anda lalu tiba-tiba tim anda melakukan kesalahan sehingga data yang sudah tersimpan menjadi terhapus. Tidak hanya hilang, ternyata hal ini juga menyebabkan sistem pada server anda down sehingga pelanggan anda tidak dapat mengakses aplikasi anda. Dengan solusi Disaster Recovery, data anda tentunya masih dapat terselamatkan dan sistem masih dapat berjalan karena anda mempunyai salinannya di cloud.

  • Menghindari anda dari kehilangan pelanggan

Pernahkah anda mengalami downtime disaat anda mengadakan diskon besar-besaran di bisnis anda? Bayangkan jika pada saat itu anda sedang mengadakan launching produk disaat hari belanja online nasional dan website maupun aplikasi anda mengalami downtime karena banyaknya traffic yang masuk ke server anda. Hal ini dapat menyebabkan hilangnya kepercayaan pelanggan anda terhadap bisnis anda. Belum lagi biaya yang sudah anda keluarkan untuk promosi campaign tersebut menjadi terbuang sia-sia karena sistem anda yang tidak dapat diakses. Namun anda tidak perlu khawatir, hal ini dapat dihindari dengan menggunakan Disaster Recovery.

Zettagrid sebagai penyedia layanan cloud di Indonesia memiliki berbagai solusi Disaster Recovery (DR) yang anda dapat gunakan pada bisnis anda. Anda tidak perlu ragu jika bisnis anda mengharuskan anda untuk menaruh data di Indonesia, karena Zettagrid sendiri memiliki 2 lokasi data center di Indonesia dengan SLA 99.9% yang dapat menjamin anda dari terjadinya downtime. Selain itu tim support kami juga siap membantu anda 24/7 melalui website, email, telpon dan bahkan whatsapp kapanpun dan dimanapun anda berada. Belum lagi saat ini kami sedang mengadakan penawaran spesial diskon sebesar 25% untuk layanan SecondSite DR. Jika anda tertarik anda dapat menghubungi kami disini atau email kebutuhan anda di marketing@zettagrid.id.

5 Langkah Implementasi Disaster Recovery Saat Terjadi Bencana

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Implementasi Disaster Recovery

5 Langkah Implementasi Disaster Recovery Saat Terjadi Bencana

 

Pesatnya perkembangan digitalisasi, memberi harapan bagi para pengusaha untuk menemukan berbagai solusi yang memudahkan pekerjaannya. Mulai dari internet hingga layanan cloud computing, kini tersedia untuk masyarakat demi meningkatkan  produktivitas. Namun menggunakan teknologi cloud computing saja ternyata belum cukup, karena bayang-bayang bencana yang bisa terjadi kapan saja. Baik bencana  alam maupun human error bisa saja menyerang keamanan data  penting perusahaan yang tersimpan pada perangkat dengan sistem keamanan yang lemah. Untuk itu, diperlukan adanya Disaster Recovery Plan demi menghindari hal tersebut.

Menurut proxsisgroup.com, Jika dikaitkan dengan bisnis berbasis informasi teknologi (IT), Disaster Recovery Plan merupakan program tertulis dan telah disetujui, diimplementasikan, serta dievaluasi secara periodik. Sistem ini difokuskan untuk semua kegiatan yang perlu dilakukan baik sebelum hingga setelah bencana. Untuk itu, Disaster Recovery Plan disusun berdasarkan kajian secara menyeluruh terhadap bencana-bencana potensial yang mencakup fasilitas, lokasi geografis, atau industri.

Lalu, seberapa penting Disaster Recovery bagi perusahaan?

Beberapa waktu lalu, sebuah kebakaran terjadi di Kejaksaan Agung Jakarta. Dilansir dari Tempo, kebakaran yang terjadi telah melahap 6 lantai sekaligus termasuk gedung sumber daya manusia (SDM). Kejadian ini tentu tidak hanya menghanguskan gedung tersebut, bahkan dokumen kepegawaian yang masih bersifat konvensional pun hancur terbakar oleh api dan akan sulit ditemukan kembali. Untuk itu, sistem Disaster Recovery sangat penting demi menyelamatkan dan menjadi tindakan preventif untuk melindungi data-data yang hilang akibat terjadinya bencana. 

Mengingat risiko bencana tersebut dapat tiba-tiba saja menyerang organisasi/perusahaan lain, Zettagrid sebagai salah satu layanan cloud computing di Indonesia menawarkan Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Melalui kecanggihan yang ditawarkan, DRaaS ini memberikan manfaat utama lain bagi perusahaan. Diantaranya, mampu melindungi perusahaan dari kegagalan layanan komputer utama, meminimalisir risiko organisasi terhadap penundaan dalam penyediaan layanan, menjamin keandalan dari sistem yang menyediakan simulasi, hingga meminimalisir proses pengambilan keputusan oleh personal selama bencana terjadi.

Namun sebelum itu, beberapa langkah dalam mengimplementasikan DRaaS pun harus dilakukan. Berikut beberapa langkah implementasi disaster recovery dengan menggunakan Zerto Virtual Manager yang dapat dilakukan ketika sistem IT perusahaan mengalami bencana:

 

  1.     Pengaturan WAN

Hal pertama yang perlu dilakukan adalah mengaktifkan koneksi WAN dengan menggunakan VPN Tunnel atau Leased Line. Jika sudah aktif, Anda sudah bisa membuat Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) dengan kapasitas 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM dan minimal storage sebesar 60GB. 

  1.     Konfigurasi 

Selanjutnya, Anda dapat menginstall ZVM pada salah satu Virtual Machine (VM) di on-premise. Setelah terpasang, kembangkan proses pemasangan Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) dengan Zerto Cloud Connect jika Anda perlu menyimpan kapasitas data dalam jumlah kecil.  Namun sebaliknya, jika Anda memiliki kapasitas data dalam jumlah besar, maka tim IT akan membantu mengekstraksi data dari on-premise perusahaan ke data center Zettagrid. 

  1.     Memproteksi Data

Untuk memproteksi data, Anda perlu melakukan sinkronisasi dan replikasi Zerto Data secara berkala. Dengan demikian, masing-masing virtual machine (VM) akan direplikasi dan dikirimkan ke infrastruktur cloud Zettagrid. 

  1.     Mengaktifkan Failover

Setelah semua proses di atas telah terpasang, Anda bisa mulai mengaktifkan scenario failover apabila terjadi bencana. Pada proses ini, beberapa bagian failover atau semua VM yang telah direplikasi di cloud akan dikirimkan ke on-premise untuk penggunaan resource sehari-hari.

  1.     Memonitor SecondSiteDR

Terakhir, Anda hanya perlu memonitor seluruh proses SecondSite Disaster Recovery pada Dashboard Zerto Virtual Manager. Perlu diketahui bahwa tahap ini bersifat opsional, sehingga Anda hanya perlu melakukannya secara mingguan maupun bulanan.  

Jika anda ingin mengetahui lebih lanjut mengenai penggunaan dan pengaplikasian Disaster Recovery pada sistem IT bisnis anda, anda dapat menghubungi kami di sini, atau e-mail ke sales@zettagrid.id.

 

The Benefits Of Virtual Datacenter

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Benefits of Virtual Datacenter

The Benefits Of Virtual Datacenter

During this pandemic, cloud computing became a solution for enterprise in various industries. Besides efficient IT costs and capacity, the cloud also improves business operations even though it is run remotely. This happened without no reason of course, but cloud computing has an IT infrastructure that can support user success. One of them that is quite crucial in cloud infrastructure is a Virtual Datacenter (VDC).

A Virtual Data Center is a collection of cloud infrastructure resources that are used to store data and information securely. These resources can be contained in computation, memory, storage, and bandwidth. Beside that, this system also can support the infrastructure to be more complex with functions, operating systems, and virtual machine (VM) specifications as needed.

According to intervision.com, Virtual Datacenter is hosted on a public cloud and is based on VMware vCloud technology which provides full compatibility with any VMware environment. This solution is builts on open standards with OVF packaging for transport workload and interoperability with additional support for VMware vCloud API. Therefore, Virtual Datacenter resources can be made available for applications, business units, and projects as needed without having to worry about physical capacity.

Not only that, a Virtual Data Center also offers public and private catalogs of Virtual Machine (VM) templates. So, users can build new virtual machines quickly, or upload VMs that are already running in the user’s internal environment. Users can also enable to build virtual applications (vApps) on Virtual Datacenter. So, if you have an application that requires more than one VM also custom security and startup parameters, you could use vApps.

In Zettagrid Indonesia, Virtual Datacenter not only will enable you to control your own virtual server. But, it also will bring you some benefits. Let’s see the Benefits of Virtual Datacenter 

  1. Replicating Data For Backup System

Losing all critical data in VM can be scary. But, if you decide to use Virtual Datacenter from Zettagrid, you don’t have to worry about it anymore. Because it will keep your VM safe by providing a secure cloud backup with a customizable schedule. By replicating your data from a Virtual Datacenter, it will allow you to roll back to the previous VM version.

  1. Intelligent Management

You can set various network settings (local network, NAT, Firewall, Load Balancer, VPN/Metro Ethernet and others). Beside that, you can collaborate your virtual machines into clusters (vApp) according to the purpose or function of your business applications (web servers, databases).

  1. IT Cost-Efficient

When you have more control over the cloud you use, you only have to pay for what you actually need. So, you can decide what scale you want to set up according to your organization’s demands for growth, without investing more on CapEx for hardware. That’s why it is affordable to use for enterprise in improving business continuity.

See for further information about our Virtual Datacenter here. And if you want to feel the benefits of  Virtual Datacenter you could contact us at sales@zettagrid.id, we will be ready 24×7 to simplify your cloud experience.

Cloud Computing To Reduce IT Cost During Pandemic

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Cloud Computing Reduce IT Cost

Cloud Computing To Reduce IT Cost During Pandemic

As the digital era evolves in just a few years, cloud computing has become one of the solutions for various industries. According to a survey by RightScale, both public and private cloud adoption have increased significantly in 2018. It showed that the number of respondents who have adopted public cloud is 92 percent, up from 89 percent in 2017, while the number of respondents now adopting private cloud is 75 percent, up from 72 percent in 2017.

This cloud computing trend does not happen without a reason of course, but It can be caused by various things like lower operating costs, improved time to market, better collaboration, and increased flexibility. That’s why cloud computing is now become a great solution to run business, especially during pandemic that forced enterprises to reduce IT  cost to achieve business efficiency so their business could still running in this uncertain times.

But, do you know what cloud computing is?

Refers to Wikipedia, cloud computing is a combination of the use of computer technology and internet-based development. In other words, it can be meant as a collection of resources which usually consists of vCPU, RAM, and storage. These systems integrated into a single unit, running on the internet network, and having flexibility in its use.

Cloud computing also has characters. There are:

  1. Self-Service Use 

Cloud computing’s characteristic of self-service providers goes hand in hand with on-demand computing capabilities. Developers could choose the resources and tools they need through a cloud provider. Although a provider sets policies to limit what IT teams could run, employees still have rights to build, test, and even deploy applications as they need.

  1. Measured Services 

Measuring service usage is useful for both cloud providers and its customers. Usually, cloud systems are automatically controlled and resources are optimized by leveraging measurement capabilities at a certain level. The provider and customer can monitor, control, and report on the use of the services.

  1. Flexible, Scalable, And Secure 

Cloud has a flexible capacity depending on user needs. Therefore, you can easily increase or decrease service capacity as your needs. That’s why, its capacity is scalable. Not only that, the cloud has a secure system to protect your data. And if you were experiencing a data loss, you could always run a backup.

  1. Cost-efficient – Reduce IT Cost

If you decide to use cloud computing, then you will experience a cost effective for hardware allocation. It also does not require maintenance and reduces IT consumption. That’s why cloud is affordable to use. Enterprises could achieve IT cost efficiency by using cloud as it could be scale up and down and pay-as-you-go based. So it will help enterprises business continuity especially during pandemic COVID-19.

Not only that, cloud computing also has various models of usage. They are:

  1.     Software as a Service (SaaS) 

This type of cloud is a service that refers to cloud-based software that can be used through the internet. Its applications are available in the form of a subscription according to user needs or on-demand. So, if you use this SaaS, you no longer need to buy licenses and install applications, but you could simply pay a fee according to data usage.

SaaS is one of the cloud services that is often used by enterprises to maintain businesses because it is easy to manage and very affordable. Besides, this service is especially useful for working anywhere. 

  1.     Platform as a Service (PaaS)

The second type is a cloud-based service by renting hardware, operating system, storage, and network capacity through the internet. This framework is typically used by developers to focus on building or creating software. Users could rent virtual servers and services to run web-based software that has been developed. Not only that, users could also test web-based software that is being developed. 

  1.     Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

IaaS is a cloud computing infrastructure service that contains virtual computer hardware devices with internet network, bandwidth, and IP address support. Besides, Its service providers usually provide various infrastructure specifications, both CPU, RAM, and data storage virtually without an operating system. 

Along with the development of cloud technology and needs for its services in Indonesia, many cloud service providers arise by offering cloud products and solutions according to customer needs. Some of them are from the individual, UMKM, Small Medium Business (SMB), and even enterprise or corporate segments.

Zettagrid Indonesia is one of the cloud service providers of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that offers Virtual Server, Virtual Datacenter, Backup as a Service (BaaS), and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). We also already achieved VMware Cloud Verified which could be beneficial for our customers so they could use all automation from VMware cloud technology. If you have any further questions about cloud solutions, you can contact us here or by sales@zettagrid.id.

Free Online Workshop: Migrate and Configure SAP Workloads On Cloud

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Free Online Workshop

Free Online Workshop: Zettagrid e-TechDay Vol.03: How To Migrate and Configure SAP Workloads On Cloud

Migrating to SAP in the cloud can be seen as a challenge, but it’s also a great opportunity to deliver cost and performance benefits. Especially during this pandemic COVID-19 situation that forces enterprises to create more efficiency for their company CapEx and OpEx investment. With cloud, you could save your investment by cutting up-front investment for hardware, software, and the resources. Cloud also have pay-as-you-go based, easily to scale up and down based on your capacity needs. No more worry about bill shock, cloud will help you to running your business continuity during pandemic.

Join us and discover how you can reach your IT efficiency out of your SAP move to the Cloud with our expert guest speakers from BeOne-Solutions, Rizky Dwi Ramdani as System Engineer and Maria Al-Ghibtiyah as Head Div Support Consultant on our Free Online Workshop: “Zettagrid e-TechDay Vol.03: How To Migrate and Configure SAP Workloads On Cloud”

Event Details:
Date: Wednesday, 23 September 2020
Time: 14.00-16.00
Live online from Zoom
Link to register: https://tinyurl.com/eTechday3

Register now and get chance to win OVO at the end of the event!

Need more information about the event? contact us to marketing@zettagrid.id or contact us here

Avoid IT Disaster with Veeam Cloud Connect Backup and Replication

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Veeam Cloud Connect

Avoid IT Disaster with Veeam Cloud Connect Backup and Replication

A highlight from Zettagrid e-CloudTalk vol.03: The Cloud for Digital Business Era

It is true that technology has change rapidly and move people physical activity to digital. This situation has unconsciously changed people behavior and needs. The shifting of people behavior forced enterprises to follow its customer needs. Thus, an efficient operationalization system and digital infrastructure is required.

However, the company’s operational system efficiency is not enough to follow the consumer needs of today’s digital growth. Various obstacles could also happen in building a digital system, one of them come from the security side. In recent years, ransomware has become a disaster for various digital enterprises. That is the reason why, there is a software that is capable of backing up data by copying or creating archives of computing data, especially on digital infrastructure called cloud.

On July 23rd, 2020, Zettagrid, an Australian based cloud provider company that already has 2 data centers location in Indonesia,  held its online talk show titled “Zettagrid e-CloudTalk Vol. 03: The Cloud For Digital Business Era”, which briefly highlighted the importance of preventing disaster by using Veeam Cloud Connect on Zettagrid as a business solution. Unexceptionally for well-established company that offer one stop IT business solutions in Indonesia, Datascrip. On this event, Purnawan Yunianto, the MIS Manager of Datascrip reveals that its company choose using Veeam Cloud Connect Backup and Replication on Zettagrid is to achieve a stable business transaction even there is an unexpected “disaster” happens.

Datascrip Veeam Zettagrid

Another reason for Datascrip in choosing Veeam Cloud Connect Backup and Replication on Zettagrid as its company Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions, is the proven data security system that Zettagrid offers, from data level, system, to hardware. Thanks to Zettagrid and Veeam Cloud Connect technology for decreasing enterprises investment on CapEx and Opex for its IT business.

According to Datascrip experiences, cloud infrastructure has already equipped by a wide range of security and operational standard. Cloud also provide ease and flexibility in terms of access, operations, and cost. The cloud will also provide accessibility related to resources whenever needed.

In operation, the user will focus on data protection and no longer need to think about infrastructure. Thus, user resources can focus on data development and other operations.

Why choosing Veeam Cloud Connect for Backup and Replication on Zettagrid?

Veeam Cloud Connect technology has the compatibility and support of the existing Datascrip’s environment. By ensuring the selected cloud solution can fit the environment of Datascrip’s.  Cloud connect provides good support if the problem occured while the Disaster Recovery (DR) is being processed. Thus, when a failover occurs during DR process, it would not give user a complication on reproduce the change of a data.

In case you missed the session, watch the live streaming here. Want to have the same experience with Datascrip? please contact us at sales@zettagrid.id

Free IT Webinar Zettagrid e-CloudTalk

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Free IT Webinar Zettagrid e-CloudTalk

IT Webinar

Pandemic COVID-19 has changed some aspects in human lifestyle. Almost every activities that people do it’s now on digital, from studying, entertain, even business industry. As the digital infrastructure, cloud computing now plays a crucial role not only during, but also for the business recovery after we survive the pandemic.

Moreover, in some countries that successfully decreased and even successfully stop the COVID-19 outbreaks, they start to educate the “new normal” lifestyle that advice almost all activities will move to digital to keep the social distancing. So what is the next step that IT operations should do after the pandemic outbreaks is over?

Join us on FREE IT Webinar Zettagrid e-CloudTalk “Next Step For IT Operations After Surviving The Pandemic Outbreaks” to get insight from our cloud expertise. e-CloudTalk is an online talk show that specially crafted for tech enthusiast to learn more about IT solution especially in cloud computing. Say bye to boring presentation and feel free to ask your thoughts with our cloud experts.

Event details

Date: Thursday, 14 May 2020
Time: 15.00-16.30 WIB
Where: Microsoft Teams Meetings
Link Register: https://bit.ly/3ccyMA4

Pssst, it’s not an usual boring presentation, it’s e-Talk show! Register now and get chance to win OVO credits during the session. See you!

If you have any questions or having trouble with registration feel free to reach out us at marketing@zettagrid.id or click here

 

How Scalable Licensing And Infrastructure Benefits Your Business

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How Scalable Licensing and Infrastructure Benefits Your Business During Pandemic

Scalable Infrastructure

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. And the most important things is scalability is good for your business during this pandemic situations because you can always adjust your IT business needs and flexible to scale up and down.

If you are interested in migrating your data to the cloud, contact us at sales@zettagrid.id  or call us at +62-811-28-38-78 or +62-21-2789-9962. We are ready to welcome you to start your cloud journey.

Source: Zettagrid