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3 Reasons Why Business Needs VDC Backup

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Business VDC Backup

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.

What To Prevent In Migrating To Cloud? 

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migrating to cloudWhat To Prevent In Migrating To Cloud? 

In expanding business systems, enterprise often look for the best asset for integration. Technology such as Cloud Service Provider can be an option for business integration systems. Not only because it’s affordable, but it also can be allocated and changed in minutes. Even enterprises technology elites are spending dollars on the Public Cloud these days. Thus, it can be a good idea for a business long-term investment.

However, implementing cloud infrastructure can’t be defined as a solution to fix existing problems, such as data mess, application issues, inadequate security, or frequent outages due to a lack of operational disciplines and tools. Once business migrates these issues, it will end up with less-than-optimal systems in the cloud. Moreover, it can get worse if the IT department still be on the learning curve of using the Public Cloud. So, it will be increasing risk and cost without improving any of its systems.

Therefore, business needs to know what mistakes in migrating to the cloud. No worries, below here we have compiled three things that needed to avoid in cloud migration. Read them below here:

1. Migrating all business data to the cloud

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In developing a business, having multiple sources is important for storing enterprise data. But if you don’t look at this side, then you just make a big mistake for business continuity.

Having a massive number of redundant databases and no one knows where all the data is, can be fatal for the business. Moreover, if the business decided to migrate all data – including the complex one – to the cloud, it will not improve everything except for causing a new problem. Therefore, consider and segmented what to store and integrated into the cloud is important to do. Thus, business investment in cloud infrastructure can be effective and beneficial.

2. Forget to secure the data

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Migrating certain data to cloud infrastructure must include proper security practices from the organization. Even, a change is needed once the data move. But, if your organization does no comply with this practice, then you just caused a new problem for cloud migration.

As migrating encrypted data to the cloud, the organization certainly thinks if the assets are normally well-locked down. Little did they know, it is easy to inadvertently create vulnerabilities in the cloud since customers are responsible for setting many security controls around their apps and data. That’s why securing the data by encrypting them is important for the organization before it is being moved to the cloud.

3.  Assuming that all cloud environments are the same

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Once business decided to migrate their system to cloud, they can’t assume that all cloud environments are the same. Every cloud provider designs their cloud differently, specializing in different functions and capabilities for their deployment.

That’s why in migrating to cloud, business should never blindly do it from one cloud to another before becoming familiar with its new environment. Otherwise, the migration process will be a problem while organization needs to struggle to reconfigure data to fit the new environment.

Zettagrid Indonesia is a Cloud Service Provider in Indonesia that provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) such as VMware Virtual Data Center, VMware Virtual Server, Veeam Backup, and so on. If you have any questions related to the effective backup strategy or cloud solutions, you can reach us here or through sales@zettagrid.id.

 

The Importance of Low RTO and RPO in DRaaS

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RTO and RPOThe Importance of Low RTO and RPO in Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

 

If you have read our article about RTO and RPO, you might have known by now why it is important to have a minimum RTO and/or RPO. But if you don’t, here’s a recap on RTO and RPO:

RTO is defined as the time duration and service level within which a business process must be restored after a disruptive event to avoid a catastrophic failure of the business. Meanwhile, RPO is defined as the time interval that might pass during a disruption before the quantity of data lost exceeds the maximum allowable tolerance or threshold.

With that in mind, you can see that RTO and RPO will vary between business organizations. Each business has their own requirement that will dictate their RTO/RPO numbers. But here we would like to discuss why it is important to achieve low RTO/RPO. Not only that, In an online workshop “Zettagrid eCloudTalk vol. 05: Exclusive Disaster Recovery Q&A on Zettagrid”, Wayne Heath as a Pre-Sales Architect of Zettagrid Australia explained that low RPO and RTO is very much achievable and affordable for business anywhere with DRaaS offering from Zettagrid.

So let us begin with the importance of low RTO/RPO for business:

  1. Minimal to almost 0 data loss 

As you might’ve expected, low RPO means fewer data loss. So if your business relies heavily on data, you will want to go for the lowest RPO possible. That being said, sometimes it is not always feasible to aim for zero data loss, budget limiting. But with the advent of DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service), that is now possible. So when shopping for a DRaaS solution, try to find a service that has the lowest RPO possible.

  1. Avoid loss to revenue 

So with data loss being taken care of with low RPO, now you must aim to restore your system as soon as possible. Every minute that goes by while your business is down waiting for the IT system to recover is a loss in revenue. That means low RTO equals less revenue loss. Getting a system, software, hardware, and restoring all those components will take days. Back in the old days, the only thing to achieve low RTO is to have a backup data center running somewhere, getting ready to take over when the primary data center is down. The cost of that can be exorbitant. However, by using a DRaaS solution with low RTO, the recovery will take significantly less time than it spends on the recovery data center with the fraction cost of having a backup data center. Therefore, enterprises can get a lower cost and minimize financial loss from downtime.

  1. Minimize interruption of critical processes and safeguard business operations

Each company definitely has critical processes that are always active and vital for business continuity. Although the disaster occurs, businesses still have to maintain the process. Therefore, DRaaS with low RTO is needed to preserve the process and minimize the interruptions when disaster happens. Hence, business operations can still run even in emergency time.

  1. Preserve business reputation

Customer trust is the number one aspect in running a business. Even with the disaster strikes, that trust has to be maintained at all costs. That’s why aiming for low RTO is important. Low RTO means there is minimum or no perceivable disruption of business operation to your customer. So trust can be maintained and the business can avoid a bad reputation.

If you want to find out more about this session you can watch the online talk show again on our Youtube account here. And if you are interested in our Disaster Recovery as a Service solution to support your business continuity, you can contact us at sales@zettagrid.id or click here. SecondSite Service by Zettagrid can help your business achieve the lowest RTO and RPO in the industry without breaking the bank.

End Of Season Special Offer

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End Of Season Special Offer

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Buruan order! Tutup akhir tahun anda dengan membawa voucher belanja hingga puluhan juta rupiah. Promo ini berlaku hingga 31 Deesember 2020. Hubungi kami di sales@zettagrid.id untuk informasi selengkapnya.

Exclusive Disaster Recovery Q&A on Zettagrid

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Disaster RecoveryExclusive Disaster Recovery Q&A on Zettagrid

 

What if you suddenly lost your critical data? Are you prepared for the recovery solutions? Service-interrupting events can happen at any time. Your network could have an outage, your latest file-save backup might have failed, or—in rare cases—you might even have to contend with a natural disaster or even caused by human error.

Join us and ask exclusively live from Sydney Australia and Indonesia on “Zettagrid e-CloudTalk Vol.05: Exclusive Disaster Recovery Q&A on Zettagrid”. Get an insight about DR solution on Zettagrid with the fastest technology that could reach RPO below 15 mins with following speakers: Wayne Heath as Presales Architect Zettagrid Australia, Donny Christiaan as IT Hardware & Infrastructure Manager Polygon Bikes, also Jimmi Nababan as IT Country Manager Columbia Asia Hospitals.

Event Details:
Date: Thursday, 26 November 2020
Time: 10.00 – 12.00 WIB (JKT Time)
Moderator: Novia Kurniasih (Customer Success Manager Indonesia)

Live online from Zoom
Link to register: https://tinyurl.com/eCloudTalk05

Register now and get a chance to win MAP Shopping Voucher also Exclusive Merchandise from Zettagrid at the end of the event!

4 Advantages of Cloud in the Healthcare Industry

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4 Advantages of Cloud in the Healthcare Industry

 

As pandemic COVID-19 spread, the healthcare industry is increasing during this situation. According to Deloitte, people are more concerned about their health more than before, today. It can be seen by their behavior of learning about health risks and how to improve it. That’s why the healthcare industry now needs to overcome the challenge.

However, by massive people coming to healthcare, a lot of data also will be generated from it. Conventional storage definitely will not be enough to store massive data. Therefore, cloud adoption can be a solution for that. With the cloud, healthcare can optimize its data management practices. Not only that, but the cloud can also bring advantages to the healthcare industry. What are them? Read 4 advantages of cloud in the healthcare industry below:

1.     Lowering of costs 

One of the advantages of the cloud is this technology offers on-demand availability of computer resources. By this advantage, hospitals and healthcare providers don’t need to purchase other hardware and servers anymore. Besides, the cloud also provides the organization’s payment system for the resources it uses. So, it could result in massive cost savings.

2.     Ease of interoperability

When healthcare providers have a lot of patients, automatically it will generate massive data for the organizations. Therefore, healthcare needs interoperability that aims to establish data integration throughout its system. But don’t worry, the cloud could make it easy for organizations. With interoperability fueled by the cloud, patient data is readily available to distribute and facilitate healthcare planning and delivery. 

3.     Access to high power analytics

Data is a huge asset for healthcare to plan other innovations for customers. Therefore, storage like cloud computing is needed to store and process it. By adopting cloud, relevant patient data from different sources can be collated and computed. Not only that, but the implementation of Big Data analytics of patient data on the cloud-stored could also strengthen medical research. That’s why these advantages of the cloud can make data processing becomes more feasible. 

 4.     Prevent data loss

Most healthcare providers and hospitals are likely to keep medical records with physical copies. This might be a common thing for a hospital to do, yet it will cause risk like data loss. Paper records could be misplaced, become torn or faded, or otherwise damaged by the disaster. But, when an organization starts to shift its conventional storage to cloud-stored, the risk of data loss will be prevented.

By using cloud services like Backup as a Service or Disaster Recovery as a Service, the organization can replicate their data as well without any mistakes. So, healthcare providers don’t have to worry more about data loss that is caused by disaster and human error.

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). If you have any further questions about cloud solutions, you can contact us here or at sales@zettagrid.id

Digitalize and Secure Your Finance Solutions

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Finance SolutionDigitalize & Secure Your Finance Solutions

 

The pandemic situation that happen along 2020 brought enterprises to be more digital and flexible including its working system. Many tech provider now creating solutions for better remote working experience, especially for accounting system, one of critical part from a business.

Then how if financial system moves into digital? How is the security system from a digital accounting system?

Find the answer on “Zettagrid e-TechDay Vol.05: Digitalize & Secure Your Finance Solutions”. Meet our guest speaker Bayu Prasakti Tjandra from Supersoft, a company that will provides you IT solution including financial system software.

Event Details:

Date: Thursday, 19 November 2020

Time: 14.00-16.00

Live online from Zoom

Link to register:  https://tinyurl.com/eTechDay5

Save your spot now and get chance to win OVO credits by the end of Event. If you need further information you could contact us to marketing@zettagrid.id or click here.

Cara Meningkatkan Efisiensi Cloud Computing

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Cara Meningkatkan Efisiensi Cloud Computing

 

Berbicara tentang cloud computing, anda pastinya akan mengira jika teknologi satu ini bisa menjadi solusi terbaik bagi penyimpanan data organisasi. Namun, terlepas dari beragam solusi yang dihadirkan, cloud juga mampu mendatangkan tantangan tersendiri bagi bisnis. Salah satu tantangan utama yang umum terjadi adalah masalah efisiensi.

Berdasarkan survei yang dilakukan oleh SoftwareOne, 37% responden menganggap tantangan terbesar cloud datang dari pengeluaran yang sulit diprediksi. Hal Ini mungkin wajar terjadi apabila pengguna tidak merencanakan migrasi data secara matang. Untuk itu, sekadar mengadopsi cloud sebagai tempat penyimpanan saja tidak akan cukup, jika tidak disertai dengan efisiensi yang optimal.

Namun, anda tidak perlu khawatir. Pada artikel ini, anda akan mengetahui cara yang tepat dalam meningkatkan efisiensi cloud. Simak selengkapnya di bawah ini:

  1.       Monitor cloud secara komprehensif

Cloud tentunya dapat memberi berbagai kemudahan dan kecepatan dalam mengoperasikan computing resource. Akan tetapi, kemudahan ini juga memiliki potensi yang dapat menyebabkan inefisiensi. Untuk itu, organisasi harus bisa memonitor jumlah dan penggunaan cloud secara lebih komprehensif. Sehingga, anda tidak perlu lagi mengeluarkan biaya banyak untuk kebutuhan yang tidak penting di akhir pemakaian.

  1.     Mengoptimalkan penggunaan tags

Jika anda ingin meningkatkan efisiensi cloud, anda bisa mencoba mengoptimalkan penggunaan tags untuk memonitor pemanfaatan cloud. Tags ini umumnya bisa mencakup banyak hal, seperti menunjukkan sebuah data kerja sedang diproduksi atau tidak, waktu kadaluarsa data kerja yang tengah dikerjakan, hingga departemen mana yang bertanggung jawab atas data kerja yang disimpan di cloud tersebut. Jadi, data yang disimpan di cloud pun bisa lebih terstruktur dan pengusaha bisa memprediksikan biaya yang akan dikeluarkan.

  1.     Memaksimalkan otomasi

Saat awal proses adopsi, pengelolaan cloud secara manual relatif mudah dilakukan. Namun ketika adopsi semakin membesar dan melibatkan multi cloud provider, ada baiknya organisasi harus segera melakukan otomasi. Dengan melakukan hal tersebut, pengusaha bisa memonitor dan mengoptimasi biaya penggunaan cloud. Tak hanya itu, pengeluaran besar yang tidak terduga pun bisa dihindari, sehingga penggunaan cloud pun bisa lebih efisien.

  1.     Gunakan pendekatan teknis 

Dalam memanfaatkan cloud, pengusaha membutuhkan pendekatan teknis dan proses bisnis yang tepat. Untuk mencapai hal itu, Gartner menyarankan framework yang terdiri dari lima langkah, yaitu plan, track, reduce, optimize, dan mature. Lima langkah tersebut bertujuan untuk memperkirakan anggaran yang dibutuhkan dalam mengimplementasikan cloud. 

Jadi, ketika proses berjalan, pengusaha bisa memonitor pengeluaran dan membandingkannya dengan dana organisasi untuk menghindari anomali yang terjadi. Setelah itu, organisasi bisa mengurangi setiap pemborosan yang terjadi dengan melakukan optimisasi. Untuk itu, langkah ini bisa menjadi jalan bagi pengusaha jika ingin meningkatkan efisiensi cloud secara maksimal.

Jika anda memiliki pertanyaan lebih lanjut terkait pemanfaatan cloud, anda bisa menghubungi kami di sini atau melalui tim kami di sales@zettagrid.id.

Tips Meningkatkan Keamanan Data Cloud

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Tips Meningkatkan Keamanan Data Cloud 

 

Saat mengembangkan bisnis, anda pastinya membutuhkan teknologi yang dapat membantu menciptakan inovasi terbaru bagi pelanggan. Cloud bisa menjadi salah satu solusi untuk menjawab kebutuhan tersebut. Dengan cloud, pengusaha dapat meningkatkan infrastruktur IT secara lebih optimal. Tak hanya itu, cloud juga dapat mengubah investasi anda dari biaya CapEX yang amat besar menjadi OpEx, sehingga anda dapat menghemat biaya investasi infrastruktur IT anda.

Namun, tahukah anda? Meski cloud telah memberikan berbagai kemudahan, bukan berarti data yang tersimpan di dalamnya dapat terjamin dengan aman. Menurut penelitian yang dilakukan oleh 1000 IT di Skotlandia, hampir 60% di antaranya masih belum mempercayai sistem penyimpanan berbasis cloud. Keyakinan ini muncul ketika melihat sistem cloud yang masih terbilang rentan dari serangan hacker. 

Untuk itu, penyimpanan data di cloud secara cuma-cuma saja tidak akan cukup untuk menjaga data tetap aman. Namun, anda tidak perlu khawatir sebab tips berikut bisa menjadi preferensi anda dalam meningkatkan keamanan data cloud. Simak selengkapnya di bawah ini:

  1. Pastikan data telah terenkripsi ketika disimpan di cloud

Tahukah anda? Ketika pelanggan mengadopsi cloud, kebanyakan cloud service provider tidak meng-enkripsi data pelanggan saat memigrasikan datanya di cloud. Untuk itu, anda perlu memperhatikan bahwa data yang akan disimpan di cloud tidak memuat informasi sensitif dan konfidensial, seperti rekam medis, data keuangan, hingga data rahasia perusahaan demi mencegah terjadinya kebocoran data. 

  1. Enkripsi data secara mandiri

Ketika anda memutuskan untuk memigrasikan data ke cloud, ada baiknya anda tidak hanya mengandalkan layanan enkripsi data dari cloud service provider. Enkripsi data secara mandiri juga perlu dilakukan agar menjaga data tetap aman di cloud. Sehingga, ketika pihak luar mencoba mendownload data bisnis anda, data telah terenkripsi dan tidak mudah diakses. Informasi penting pun tidak akan dengan mudah bocor ke kompetitor.     

  1. Ketahui cara mengoperasikan cloud

Beberapa perusahaan layanan cloud memiliki fasilitas dalam membagikan folder secara online. Anda perlu mengetahui secara detail bagaimana cara mengoperasikan fitur tersebut. Dengan demikian, anda dapat mengetahui siapa yang terakhir mengakses, mengubah, menghapus, menambah, dan membuat perubahan data di cloud.

  1. Pastikan penyedia layanan telah memiliki sertifikasi keamanan 

Ketika akan memigrasikan data ke cloud, ada baiknya bagi anda untuk memastikan apakah penyedia layanan memiliki sertifikasi keamanan seperti ISO 27001 dan Service Level Agreement (SLA). Sebab dengan dua kebijakan tersebut, anda dapat mengetahui jika penyedia layanan dapat menjamin keamanan data pelanggan dan bisnis. Sehingga, jika terjadi kebocoran data dari penyedia layanan, anda bisa melaporkannya ke pihak berwajib dan memprosesnya ke jalur hukum. 

  1. Strategi Backup data

Saat menyimpan data bisnis di cloud, pastinya anda menginginkan jaminan keamanan terbaik untuk menjaga data cloud tetap aman. Untuk itu, anda bisa menggunakan strategi backup data demi mencegah terjadinya kerusakan dan kehilangan data. Dengan strategi Backup, data-data bisnis akan direplikasi sesuai dengan data utama. Sehingga, ketika sewaktu-waktu data utama hilang, anda masih dapat mengembalikan data secara penuh.

Zettagrid Indonesia menyediakan layanan cloud computing berupa Backup as a Service (BaaS), untuk memudahkan anda dalam melakukan pencadangan. Zettagrid Indonesia juga merupakan Cloud Verified Partner dari VMware dan memiliki lokasi data center di Jakarta dan Cibitung. Kami berkomitmen untuk lebih dekat dan siap sedia membantu Anda selama 24/7. 

Jika anda memiliki pertanyaan lebih lanjut mengenai cloud, anda bisa menghubungi kami di sini atau melalui tim kami di sales@zettagrid.id.