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Adopting Hybrid Cloud Approach, Where to Begin?

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Adopting Hybrid Cloud Approach, Where to Begin?

Adopting Hybrid Cloud approach is becoming more and more common in a business sector. According to a survey of IBM Institute For Business Value (IBV), Hybrid Cloud will grow to 47% in three years ahead and the average organization will implement around six hybrid clouds. With such of number, it is not a surprise anymore to see how large this technology could dominant enterprise solutions.

However, adopting Hybrid Cloud approach certainly is not just by snapping-fingers only. A plan and strategy are also needed for a successful deployment. Therefore, before business takes a step further about it, the organization needs to explore more for adopting Hybrid Cloud approach. Then, where to begin?

In Zettagrid e-Techday: Evolving Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure For Your Digital Business that was held on 12 August 2021, Teddi Suryadi as Cloud Consultant Zettagrid Indonesia had explained some strategies that business needs to take on Hybrid Cloud adoption. Curious to know how is it? Here’s the recap:

1. Determine the application that wants to be deployed on Hybrid Cloud

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Basically, any applications can be deployed on Hybrid Cloud. Depends on the organization’s policy and needs. So, if the organization wants its workload management to be deployed on cloud, then the provider will help and provide its cloud solution.

However, it is important to remember that business needs to determine what application that wants to be running on cloud and handled on the local premise. By separating workloads in two locations, the organization could achieve its IT business and cloud operation efficiency.

 2. Begins with the better infrastructure

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After the organization determines what applications that want to be deployed on cloud, next it’s time to look for the right infrastructure such as software, hardware, services, and cloud spaces. But, why does business need these infrastructures for adopting Hybrid Cloud approach?

 These infrastructures enable business to secure consistent operations for business workloads across private and public cloud. Not only that, the right infrastructures will also deliver a complete solution for business Hybrid Cloud. Therefore, it is important for the organization to do this before adopting Hybrid Cloud approach.

3. Look out for the data security

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In looking for Hybrid Cloud Providers, data security and compliance are often to be the main things that need to be concerned about. With the right data security and compliance, the cloud service provider can guarantee how secure your company and business data will be on cloud. 

In Zettagrid, we have data security and compliance such as PCI DSS certified and three-level of access (MyAccount portal access, vCloud Director access, and VM access). Not only that, but Zettagrid is also certified by ISO27001:2013 to secure your company data. Thus, you don’t have to worry more, because your data will be safe with our layered security system.

 

Those are the recap on adopting Hybrid Cloud approach. If you want to know or see the session further, you can watch it on our Youtube Channel here. And if you have any questions related to Hybrid Cloud solution, you can contact us here or at sales@zettagrid.id.

3 Reasons Why Business Needs VDC Backup

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3 Reasons Why Business Needs VDC Backup

The development of digital technology has indeed opened many opportunities for the industry. Ranging from education, lifestyle, healthcare, and other business is now digital as technology solutions arise. Therefore, it is not a surprise anymore to see many businesses automate and scale up their IT capacity to be agile to compete in this era. One of them even utilizing Virtual Data Center (VDC) for that need.

As it is stated in the article before, the role of VDC can replace the need for business to own and operate their own data center. Rather than relying on physical servers to protect business systems and applications, now you can have virtual servers in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment.

However, using VDC only is not enough for business to manage its IT infrastructure. A data protection strategy like VDC Backup is also needed to secure its system and applications that run virtually. Thus, business can securely store their systems and applications in their VDC.

Then, is there any reason why business needs VDC backup to strengthen its system? Read them below here:

1. Data Loss Can Cost Serious Money

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Having a regular backups are an insurance policy for business. So much of the modern business supported by computer networks, a loss of your network data can have a crippling financial effect on business.

Ponemon Institute found that a major IT leaders have experienced that incidents led to data loss. With the global average cost that was a staggering $3.6 million, the enterprises approximately had lost $141 per data record.

Even small security breaches impacting a small number of files, it can still have a major impact. A report from Verizon found that small breaches, which involves the loss of fewer than 100 files, can cost business between $18,120 and $35,70. Rather than business throw that money at a preventable problem regularly, then it’s time to implement an effective Backup strategy like VDC Backup.

2. Ransomware

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Besides natural disasters, business also needs to prepare for cyberattacks. As digital technology evolves, many challenges like cyber-threat might come and lead business to loss.

According to The Hacker News, new ransomware strains called NotPetya, Wormable DarkRadiation, REvil Ransomware, and so on are found and targets Linux OS and Docker Container. If this ransomware strikes your business, you must be careful as those will encrypt the business files/directories in the OS.

However, enterprise shouldn’t be worried about this. As long as it has VDC Backup for the solution of a ransomware attack, business will minimize the potential of data loss anytime it wants. Furthermore, VDC Backup like in Zettagrid Indonesia also offers business self-service backup and recovery options. Thus, business will experience the ease of a secure, native integration in the VMware vCloud Director.

3. Regulatory Compliance

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Many companies are constantly challenged in meeting policy and regulations for data storage, digital transactions management, and disaster recovery. Regulations tend to be industry-specific and call for the confidentially, portability, and accessibility of information.

Data Backup and business continuity policies must be executed to achieve data compliance. With VDC Backup like in Zettagrid Indonesia, business can leverage its data protection and disaster recovery for regulatory compliance and provide consistent business value and customer satisfaction. 

Then, what is the right backup strategy?

  • Cloud Backups: This could be an essential part of a smart backup strategy. By implementing Cloud Backup like VDC Backup, it will ensure that if your business suffers a natural disaster, you are able to restore your data off-site.
  • Encryption of Data In-Transit: Before being Backed up, the data should be encrypted when in transit. If business passed this step, hackers can snoop on data. That’s why, a smart encryption plan is key to overall data protection across your network.
  • The 3-2-1 Strategy: The 3-2-1 strategy for backups can be effective to build data protection strategy. It involves three backups located in two locations, such as on-premise and cloud storage locations. Finally, you should produce these backups at least once a day for maximum protection.
  • 24/7 Support: When your network goes down or you suffer data loss, you want a partner that can quickly restore your system from a backup no matter what day or time it is. A 24/7 support team like at Zettagrid Indonesia, will help you to recover the data back. Therefore, enterprise does not have to be panic once it happened.
  • Testing Backups: It’s important you work with a provider that tests the integrity of backups, considering a backup report can let you know if any files failed to transfer or if any corruptions occurred. Therefore, testing your backup solution regularly is important to achieve the effective recovery.

Zettagrid Indonesia is a Cloud Service Provider from Indonesia that provides cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), such as Virtual Data Center (VDC), Virtual Private Server (VPS), VDC Backup, Disaster Recovery, and so on. If your business needs VDC Backup or other cloud solution, you can contact us here or at sales@zettagrid.id.