Cyber resilience requires organizations to think differently about their approach to threats and become more agile in their handling and response to attacks. The combination of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI with Zerto for disaster and ransomware recovery provides a cyber resiliency solution that is flexible, cost effective, and simple.
This onslaught of attack trends has demanded increased focus on new capabilities in cyber resilience, rapid recovery, business continuity procedures, testing, and more. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is also a trend gaining traction with security-savvy organizations. According to ESG, “82% of orgs currently using HCI expect to increase their spending on these platforms over the next 12 months.”[1]
As customers drive their businesses forward with digital transformation, one question I ask them is how they are leveraging these growth trends in ransomware protection and HCI to protect their data and improve their overall cyber resiliency posture. Cyber resilience requires organizations to think differently about their approach to threats and become more agile in their handling and response to attacks.
HCI improves agility
As many customers seek to become data-first modernizers, they continue to adopt private cloud and multi-cloud for both applications and data. HCI delivers a great foundation that’s simple, automated, and VM-centric. With HCI, IT and operations teams manage VMs and apps, which takes away the underlying complexity, resulting in greater agility. It is important to remember, however, that the right private cloud/multi-cloud foundation also needs resiliency and security designed in from the start. It’s hard to retool after the foundation is set.
HPE GreenLake can help customers improve their cyber resiliency posture with our advisory services and solutions. One such solution in our broad portfolio is purpose-built for private cloud and multi-cloud for virtualized environments, and combines disaggregated HCI (dHCI) with Zerto.
One cyber resiliency solution: disaggregated HCI and Zerto
HPE dHCI, available via HPE GreenLake, provides the ease of HCI with a more flexible foundation for performance, resiliency, and efficient scaling. Customers really like the resilient design, as dHCI provides the perfect foundation for private cloud for large or small mixed workloads. Plus, the dHCI foundation includes AIOps from HPE InfoSight for a superior support experience that predicts and prevents issues and provides VM recommendations, as well. HPE dHCI makes managing virtualized environments easier, delivers fast applications performance, helps ensure apps are always-on, and enables greater resource efficiency.
Modern data protection with built-in mobility
HPE provides industry-leading ransomware protection, disaster recovery, and data protection through Zerto software. Zerto brings modern data protection and mobility to the table, while providing VM-centric, enterprise-level protection through easy-to-use tools, and near zero recovery point objectives (RPOs), to ensure the ultimate in data protection and recoverability. Full VM-centric orchestration is enabled for site-to-site failover and failback, and customers can achieve recovery point objectives (RPOs) in seconds, and recovery-time objectives (RTOs) in minutes – with always-on replication, perform failover, failback, and move operations in just a few clicks. Customers can also create “test bubbles” for sets of VMs and perform failover tests for compliance and periodic audits without production impact.
Zerto offers a proven solution for virtualized environments, and the combination of dHCI and Zerto enables customers to easily manage and protect VMs and application domains. The VM-centric design is key to improving cyber resiliency as it allows for groups of VMs to be tested for cyber resiliency in a “test bubble.” Many data restoration tasks fail after a cyberattack due to lack to real-world testing; many of these failure events could have been avoided had the business been better prepared for real-world scenarios with more robust recovery strategies.
The combination of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI with Zerto can help some set of customers improve their overall cyber resiliency posture, as well. Customers can perform efficient site-to-site compliance audits, and achieve fine grain control – just failover and failback a portion of your VMs. This ability to test your recovery plan, gives you assurance that the process works.
You – and your organization – gain peace of mind knowing that your business is cyber resilient and protected from attack and ransomware.
Some customers believe this level of cyber resilience is too expensive and out of their budget range. But here is some good news: disaggregated HCI can deliver total cost of ownership savings up to 59% less than other vSAN-based HCI solutions over a five-year period.[2] Zerto can deliver 279% ROI from reduction in planned and unplanned downtime, reduced resource requirements for both DR and backup, and avoid costs related to major data center migrations.[3]
The cost of the overall solution may be more economical than you think.
An HPE solution you can trust
In summary, the combination of HPE Nimble Storage dHCI with Zerto for disaster and ransomware recovery provides one potential cyber resiliency solution that is flexible, cost effective, and simple. The combined solution from HPE is one you can trust, PLUS both solutions are award winning. Zerto was recognized by CRN as a Tech Innovator award winner in 2021.[4] and HPE Nimble Storage dHCI was named a TechTarget Product of the Year 2021 winner in the Hyper-converged and Composable Infrastructure category. [5]
For more details on the solution, please check out these resources:
- Disaster recovery, ransomware recovery with HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and Zerto solution brief.
- Watch this new demo video: HPE Nimble Storage dHCI with Zerto .
- Try Zerto for free!
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[1] ESG Data Point of the Week
[2] The Total Economic Impact™ Of Zerto
[3] HPE Nimble Storage dHCI Economic Validation Report Summary
[4] Zerto named a winner for CRNs Tech Innovator Award, 2021
[5] TechTarget’s Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com Announce “Storage Products of the Year” 2021 Award Winners
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