We’ve covered the difference between backup and disaster recovery before. With threats including, cyber attacks, ransomware and phishing increasing all the time, now is a good time to review this topic. iland and Veeam have recently released an e-book, Protecting Your Business and Its Data: Backup vs. Disaster Recovery, that dives deeper into the topics. We’ve certainly seen…
Well, if you are one of the businesses that hasn’t yet taken action to protect your IT systems against ransomware attacks, last Friday was your wake-up call. Hundreds of companies across many countries – including most alarmingly the NHS in England – were hit by the ‘WannaCry’ ransomware virus. IT teams who have up until…
iland is proud to announce that we’ve been named a Leader in Forrester Research Inc.’s comprehensive research report: “The Forrester Wave™: Disaster-Recovery-As-A-Service Providers, Q2, 2017.” For over a decade, iland has been helping customers increase IT Resiliency and ensure business continuity with market-leading disaster recovery solutions. We believe this position as a Leader in the Forrester DRaaS Wave reflects…
Years ago, in a time called 1996, a gentleman by the name of James Clark became frustrated with the patient care experience. He lamented the fact that his patient information from one doctor was often not available to another. He realized, in that bygone time, his information could be networked and shared to reduce both…
The recent outage with Amazon’s S3 cloud storage facilities has highlighted the risk of relying on a single cloud provider. To Amazon’s credit, they were quick to acknowledge the problem and get everything working again. However, the outage was significant and it demonstrated the number of well-known applications that are relying on these kind of cloud services.…
Previously in this blog series, we have installed Zerto, created our VPGs and monitored the replication to ensure everything is meeting the required SLA. Unfortunately, a meteor has just plummeted to earth and destroyed our datacenter. All systems and access to our production is offline and we need to get our business back online ASAP.…
So, in my last blog, I covered best practices relating to Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs). Once you have your VPGs set up and replicated, you can monitor and manage the service through your Zerto console. With the iland Secure Cloud Console, you can also check the status of your VPG replication under the Continuity tab. Let’s take…
So, having covered an introduction to Zerto and installation and configuration best practices in my two most recent blogs, I’m now going to tackle the very important topic of Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs). Zerto VPGs allow you to create a group of VMs to be protected together, giving you many different options for replication and…
Before you can start replication to the iland Secure Cloud, you will need to complete a couple of installation and configuration tasks with Zerto to prepare your environment. The installation process is typically seamless and quick and the iland team are always available for any assistance needed. Please see the below guide for more information and best…
Disaster Recovery (DR) has become a vital aspect for both a company’s IT and overall business strategy – with the primary objective being to recover from an outage or disaster as quickly as possible, thereby minimizing downtime. Combining Zerto replication software with the iland secure cloud offers a reliable and secure way to recover your production…
