A white paper to illustrate High-Availability and Disaster Recovery Scenarios and use-cases developed by Accenture and Veritas in the Accenture Cloud Innovation Center of Rome.
Supportato da circa otto anni di ricerche lo studio “The Cost of Cybercrime” condotto dal Ponemon Institute e sponsorizzato da Accenture, ha elaborato 2182 interviste provenienti da 254 società in sette paesi – Australia, Francia, Germania, Italia, Giappone, Regno Unito e Stati Uniti. Le conseguenze del cyber crime sono per le aziende di tutto il mondo sempre più costose e gravi, non fa eccezione l’Italia.
The Accenture Cloud Innovation Center harnesses the full potential of Cloud to custom build latest generation solutions for our clients. Commvault has partnered with ACIC to prototype solutions mainly focusing on three of its products:
- Hybrid Cloud Distributed Microservices on Software Defined Infrastructure
- Workloads and Migration Management in Hybrid Cloud Context
- E-Discovery and Automation for GDPR Compliance.
The use cases main topics are: Data Center Modernization & Cloud Foundation Engineering and Application Cloud Engineering & Digital Transformation.
An overview of the use-cases developed in the Accenture Cloud Innovation Center of Rome leveraging the partnership with Commvault that can help organizations to create business value by achieving a better management of enterprise information.
An overview of the use-cases built developed in the Accenture Cloud Innovation Center of Rome leveraging the partnership with Red Hat that can help organizations to create business value by implementing solutions that give fast answers, optimized time to delivery with controllable costs using scalable and open architectures.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from June Edition :
•Hewlett Packard Enterprise Expands HPE GreenLake
•Alibaba Cloud and Redington Boost MEA Technology
Ecosystem
•Cisco Announces New Service Enhancement For XDR And
SASE
•Dell Technologies Announces Planned VMware Spin-Off
•Microsoft-EIU Study Reveals Digital Preparedness Helped
Firms Adapt to COVID-19
•Huawei Releases CloudCampus 3.0 for Fully Wireless Networks
•Forcepoint Acquires Remote Browser Isolation Innovator
Cyberinc
•New Avaya OneCloud CCaaS Features to Enhance Customer
Experiences
•Citrix Research Uncovers New Approach to Security
•Fortinet Unveils New FortiEDR Capabilities
•Mimecast: 61% of Firms were Infected with Ransomware in 2020
•Palo Alto Networks Introduces Complete Zero Trust Network Security
•Software AG Delivers New webMethods Upgrades
•Veeam Accelerates Data Protection Strategies at VeeamON 2021
•Talend: Over a Third of Business Leaders Don’t Use Data for Critical Decisions
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Dell EMC expands data protection offerings for multi-cloud environments
•HPE launches platform to unleash real-time processing at the telecommunications edge
•The Saudi Channel in 2019 - By Rashad Baradie, GM, Saudi Arabia, Redington Value
•Fortinet secures the path to 5G with proven security architecture and solutions
•NEW ANALYTICS SOFTWARE TABLEAU 2019.1 NOW AVAILABLE
•AWS announces Amazon WorkLink
•Barracuda boosts Total Email Protection with Forensics and Incident Response
•Huawei Enterprise introduces Digital Platform
•Cambium Networks announces new standard factory warranty on wireless connectivity solutions
•Palo Alto Networks enhances partner program to fuel channel growth
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from April-May Edition:
•Software AG Appoints Redington Value As Middle East Distributor
•Microsoft Announces Nuance Acquisition
•Dell Technologies: UAE and Saudi Arabia Lead in Digital Transformation
•Cisco Announces New Data Center to Serve Collaboration Customers
•Aruba Accelerates Digital Transformation on Microsoft Azure
•Tableau Business Science Brings Powerful Data Science Capabilities
•Oracle Announces Cloud Lift Services
•Okta Launches Customer Identity Risk Ecosystem and Workflow Integrations
•VMware Cloud Accelerates App Modernization Through Multi-Cloud Services
•Mimecast Publishes Report on Threat Actor Attacks During COVID-19
•Micro Focus Introduces OPTIC
•Ivanti: Remote Work is Sending IT Security Budgets Out of Control
•CyberArk Highlights Credential Theft Trends for New Types of Identities
•Gigamon Launches Hawk to Secure Cloud Adoption
•Check Point Software Announces Mobile Security Report 2021
Supportato da circa otto anni di ricerche lo studio “The Cost of Cybercrime” condotto dal Ponemon Institute e sponsorizzato da Accenture, ha elaborato 2182 interviste provenienti da 254 società in sette paesi – Australia, Francia, Germania, Italia, Giappone, Regno Unito e Stati Uniti. Le conseguenze del cyber crime sono per le aziende di tutto il mondo sempre più costose e gravi, non fa eccezione l’Italia.
The Accenture Cloud Innovation Center harnesses the full potential of Cloud to custom build latest generation solutions for our clients. Commvault has partnered with ACIC to prototype solutions mainly focusing on three of its products:
- Hybrid Cloud Distributed Microservices on Software Defined Infrastructure
- Workloads and Migration Management in Hybrid Cloud Context
- E-Discovery and Automation for GDPR Compliance.
The use cases main topics are: Data Center Modernization & Cloud Foundation Engineering and Application Cloud Engineering & Digital Transformation.
An overview of the use-cases developed in the Accenture Cloud Innovation Center of Rome leveraging the partnership with Commvault that can help organizations to create business value by achieving a better management of enterprise information.
An overview of the use-cases built developed in the Accenture Cloud Innovation Center of Rome leveraging the partnership with Red Hat that can help organizations to create business value by implementing solutions that give fast answers, optimized time to delivery with controllable costs using scalable and open architectures.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from June Edition :
•Hewlett Packard Enterprise Expands HPE GreenLake
•Alibaba Cloud and Redington Boost MEA Technology
Ecosystem
•Cisco Announces New Service Enhancement For XDR And
SASE
•Dell Technologies Announces Planned VMware Spin-Off
•Microsoft-EIU Study Reveals Digital Preparedness Helped
Firms Adapt to COVID-19
•Huawei Releases CloudCampus 3.0 for Fully Wireless Networks
•Forcepoint Acquires Remote Browser Isolation Innovator
Cyberinc
•New Avaya OneCloud CCaaS Features to Enhance Customer
Experiences
•Citrix Research Uncovers New Approach to Security
•Fortinet Unveils New FortiEDR Capabilities
•Mimecast: 61% of Firms were Infected with Ransomware in 2020
•Palo Alto Networks Introduces Complete Zero Trust Network Security
•Software AG Delivers New webMethods Upgrades
•Veeam Accelerates Data Protection Strategies at VeeamON 2021
•Talend: Over a Third of Business Leaders Don’t Use Data for Critical Decisions
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Dell EMC expands data protection offerings for multi-cloud environments
•HPE launches platform to unleash real-time processing at the telecommunications edge
•The Saudi Channel in 2019 - By Rashad Baradie, GM, Saudi Arabia, Redington Value
•Fortinet secures the path to 5G with proven security architecture and solutions
•NEW ANALYTICS SOFTWARE TABLEAU 2019.1 NOW AVAILABLE
•AWS announces Amazon WorkLink
•Barracuda boosts Total Email Protection with Forensics and Incident Response
•Huawei Enterprise introduces Digital Platform
•Cambium Networks announces new standard factory warranty on wireless connectivity solutions
•Palo Alto Networks enhances partner program to fuel channel growth
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from April-May Edition:
•Software AG Appoints Redington Value As Middle East Distributor
•Microsoft Announces Nuance Acquisition
•Dell Technologies: UAE and Saudi Arabia Lead in Digital Transformation
•Cisco Announces New Data Center to Serve Collaboration Customers
•Aruba Accelerates Digital Transformation on Microsoft Azure
•Tableau Business Science Brings Powerful Data Science Capabilities
•Oracle Announces Cloud Lift Services
•Okta Launches Customer Identity Risk Ecosystem and Workflow Integrations
•VMware Cloud Accelerates App Modernization Through Multi-Cloud Services
•Mimecast Publishes Report on Threat Actor Attacks During COVID-19
•Micro Focus Introduces OPTIC
•Ivanti: Remote Work is Sending IT Security Budgets Out of Control
•CyberArk Highlights Credential Theft Trends for New Types of Identities
•Gigamon Launches Hawk to Secure Cloud Adoption
•Check Point Software Announces Mobile Security Report 2021
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the February Edition:
•Microsoft Unveils Employee Experience Platform to Help People Thrive at Work
•Cisco Reveals Top Tech Trends for 2021 and Beyond
•Aruba ClearPass Security Portfolio Receives Cyber CatalystSM Designation
•Oracle Powers New 5G, Fiber and Digital Services for Communications Industry
•Fortinet Announces AI-powered XDR for Fully Automated Threat Detection and Response
•Citrix to Acquire Project Management Platform Wrike
•Check Point Unveils New Quantum Spark Security Gateways for SMBs
•CyberArk Study: Poor Security Habits Raise Questions About the Future of Remote Work
•Fujitsu Amps up Behavior Recognition Tech with Deep Learning
•Hitachi Launches Industrial Edge Computer CE Series Embedded AI model
•High Private Cloud Usage Sets Path for UAE’s Hybrid Cloud Migration
•Veritas Extends Cloud Capabilities Across its Platform
•Lumen, VMware Expand Partnership to Drive Rapid Innovation at the Edge
•Malwarebytes Announces New Integrations in OneView
Management Dashboard
•Veeam Announces Availability of New Backup for Google Cloud Platform
•Palo Alto Networks Expands IoT Security to Healthcare
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the July Edition:
•Systancia Appoints Redington Value As Distributor For Middle East And Africa
•AWS Launches Marketplace And Data Exchange In UAE
•Dell Technologies Brings Cloud Capabilities To Edge Environments
•Redington Expands Imperva Partnership To Africa
•SAS And Microsoft To Shape The Future Of Analytics And AI
•Fortinet Achieves MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Certification
•Red Hat Announces Enhancements To Ansible Automation Portfolio
•A10 Networks Delivers Highest Performance DDoS Protection
•Regional SMEs To Leverage The Power Of Avaya IP Office Subscription
•Veeam Announces New Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3
•60% Of UAE Enterprises Anticipate An Email-Borne Attack: Mimecast
•Micro Focus Introduces New Family Of Software
•StorageCraft Unifies Business Continuity Stack With ShadowXafe 4.0
•CrowdStrike Falcon Expands Linux Protection With Enhanced Prevention Capabilities
•Nutanix Strengthens Desktop as a Service Solution
•HPE To Deliver New Return-To-Work Solutions To Help Firms Accelerate Recovery
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Veeam Availability Suite v10 unveiled
•P&O Maritime Logistics enables IoT with Aruba Solutions
•Avaya Spaces embraces a multiexperience approach
•Nutanix releases second Enterprise Cloud Index Report
•Huawei strengthens enterprise offerings
•Palo Alto Networks introduces Cortex XSOAR platform
•Mimecast announces new integration with IBM Security
•A10 Networks delivers virtual DDoS defense solution
•Fortinet introduces self-learning Artificial Intelligence appliance
•Veritas recognized by Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
•Kaspersky extends its partner network
2015 Modern Infrastructure Award Winners: Tools and services making a differe...Leigh Ryan
The Modern Infrastructure Impact Awards recognize the top cloud and data center products and technologies making a difference for IT shops.
The award-winning tools and services in essential areas of technology that Modern Infrastructure covers help run enterprise businesses with efficiency and insight -- whether used inside the data center or out.
Today changes are driven more by business than by IT needs. The impact and pace of change will evolve as the standard deployment option. Integration of application will pose new challenges. Automation and Digital platform will begin to dominate
Speaker:
Arnab Basu, Technology Consulting Leader, PWC India
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the July Edition:
• Dell Technologies Accelerates HCI Portfolio Growth; Simplifies Path To Vmware-Based Clouds.
• Huawei Releases 3GPP R14-Based Commercial NB-IoT Solution.
• Leading The Software-defined Future - Sayantan Dev, Vice President, VCG, Redington Value.
• Avaya Brings Enterprise-Level Communication Capabilities To SMBs.
• Symantec Introduces Cloud-Based Network Security Solution With Web Isolation.
• Veritas Announces New Data Protection And Governance Offerings For Microsoft 365 Solution.
• Red Hat Unveils Next-Generation Process Automation Offering.
• Vmware Delivers Network Functions Virtualization Platform For 5G And Multi-Cloud Telco Networks
• Fujitsu Enhances Cloud Services Portfolio.
• Trend Micro Launches Managed Detection And Response Service.
• Cyberark Presents New Privileged Access Security As A Service Offering.
• Nutanix Introduces New Velocity Partner Program.
Assembling your cloud orchestra: A field guide to multi-cloud managementIBM
Operating in a multi-cloud environment is a reality for most organizations today. Whether it’s human resources recruiting candidates, manufacturing tracking shipments, or marketing enticing customers, business units are doing an end-run around their own IT departments to directly access services on the cloud. Instead of ignoring or attempting to stifle organizational forays into multiple clouds, IT needs to facilitate, orchestrate and optimize enterprise multi-cloud footing. Enterprises that assemble harmonized multi-cloud platforms now can magnify their business advantage while optimizing costs. But, it won’t be easy. Join the virtual event to hear how organizations are benefiting and mitigating challenges along with best practices for a successful multi-cloud management system.
9 Cloud Success Stories - Microsoft AzureEuro IT Group
Euro IT Group has broad experience in working with public (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), private or Hybrid cloud based environments. We have a deep understanding of the most significant cloud architectures, from Microsoft and Amazon to Google or Rackspace and a variety of adjacent systems that we have applied in real life projects.
Are you ready to shift to continuous delivery? DevOps, a leading software engineering innovation, makes this shift possible by bringing business, development and operation teams together to streamline IT and applying more automated processes.
Hybrid- and Multi-Cloud by design - IBM Cloud and your journey to CloudAleksandar Francuz
The following presentation is a strategic view on digital transformation initiatives, underpinned with examples in several industries and how IBM Cloud can support enterprises on their journey to Cloud.
The following charts gives you an overall overview about the Cloud market, challenges and the IBM Cloud portfolio to support enterprises in becoming more agile and more customer centric and to achieve a better customer experience by modernizing existing applications and developing new services based on data and AI (Artifical Intelligence).
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the May Edition:
• Dell EMC takes open networking to the edge for next-generation access.
• Microsoft announces new intelligent security innovations
• Powering partners’ transformation - Pradeep Kumar, Principal Consultant, Security, Redington Value.
• Redington Value signs new vendor partnerships.
• Fortinet delivers integrated NOC-SOC solution.
• HPE to acquire Cape Networks.
• Malwarebytes introduces endpoint protection and response solution.
• Mimecast offers cyber resilience for email with new capabilities.
• SonicWall announces Capture Cloud Platform.
• Veritas revamps channel program to drive partner growth.
• Red Hat announces availability of Red Hat Storage One.
• AWS announces Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access(Z-IA).
YASH Cloud Advisory services will help envision your cloud adoption and outline an appropriate strategy and roadmap on how the opportunities and/or transformation can be realized.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the February Edition:
•Microsoft Unveils Employee Experience Platform to Help People Thrive at Work
•Cisco Reveals Top Tech Trends for 2021 and Beyond
•Aruba ClearPass Security Portfolio Receives Cyber CatalystSM Designation
•Oracle Powers New 5G, Fiber and Digital Services for Communications Industry
•Fortinet Announces AI-powered XDR for Fully Automated Threat Detection and Response
•Citrix to Acquire Project Management Platform Wrike
•Check Point Unveils New Quantum Spark Security Gateways for SMBs
•CyberArk Study: Poor Security Habits Raise Questions About the Future of Remote Work
•Fujitsu Amps up Behavior Recognition Tech with Deep Learning
•Hitachi Launches Industrial Edge Computer CE Series Embedded AI model
•High Private Cloud Usage Sets Path for UAE’s Hybrid Cloud Migration
•Veritas Extends Cloud Capabilities Across its Platform
•Lumen, VMware Expand Partnership to Drive Rapid Innovation at the Edge
•Malwarebytes Announces New Integrations in OneView
Management Dashboard
•Veeam Announces Availability of New Backup for Google Cloud Platform
•Palo Alto Networks Expands IoT Security to Healthcare
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the July Edition:
•Systancia Appoints Redington Value As Distributor For Middle East And Africa
•AWS Launches Marketplace And Data Exchange In UAE
•Dell Technologies Brings Cloud Capabilities To Edge Environments
•Redington Expands Imperva Partnership To Africa
•SAS And Microsoft To Shape The Future Of Analytics And AI
•Fortinet Achieves MEF 3.0 SD-WAN Certification
•Red Hat Announces Enhancements To Ansible Automation Portfolio
•A10 Networks Delivers Highest Performance DDoS Protection
•Regional SMEs To Leverage The Power Of Avaya IP Office Subscription
•Veeam Announces New Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3
•60% Of UAE Enterprises Anticipate An Email-Borne Attack: Mimecast
•Micro Focus Introduces New Family Of Software
•StorageCraft Unifies Business Continuity Stack With ShadowXafe 4.0
•CrowdStrike Falcon Expands Linux Protection With Enhanced Prevention Capabilities
•Nutanix Strengthens Desktop as a Service Solution
•HPE To Deliver New Return-To-Work Solutions To Help Firms Accelerate Recovery
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Veeam Availability Suite v10 unveiled
•P&O Maritime Logistics enables IoT with Aruba Solutions
•Avaya Spaces embraces a multiexperience approach
•Nutanix releases second Enterprise Cloud Index Report
•Huawei strengthens enterprise offerings
•Palo Alto Networks introduces Cortex XSOAR platform
•Mimecast announces new integration with IBM Security
•A10 Networks delivers virtual DDoS defense solution
•Fortinet introduces self-learning Artificial Intelligence appliance
•Veritas recognized by Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
•Kaspersky extends its partner network
2015 Modern Infrastructure Award Winners: Tools and services making a differe...Leigh Ryan
The Modern Infrastructure Impact Awards recognize the top cloud and data center products and technologies making a difference for IT shops.
The award-winning tools and services in essential areas of technology that Modern Infrastructure covers help run enterprise businesses with efficiency and insight -- whether used inside the data center or out.
Today changes are driven more by business than by IT needs. The impact and pace of change will evolve as the standard deployment option. Integration of application will pose new challenges. Automation and Digital platform will begin to dominate
Speaker:
Arnab Basu, Technology Consulting Leader, PWC India
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the July Edition:
• Dell Technologies Accelerates HCI Portfolio Growth; Simplifies Path To Vmware-Based Clouds.
• Huawei Releases 3GPP R14-Based Commercial NB-IoT Solution.
• Leading The Software-defined Future - Sayantan Dev, Vice President, VCG, Redington Value.
• Avaya Brings Enterprise-Level Communication Capabilities To SMBs.
• Symantec Introduces Cloud-Based Network Security Solution With Web Isolation.
• Veritas Announces New Data Protection And Governance Offerings For Microsoft 365 Solution.
• Red Hat Unveils Next-Generation Process Automation Offering.
• Vmware Delivers Network Functions Virtualization Platform For 5G And Multi-Cloud Telco Networks
• Fujitsu Enhances Cloud Services Portfolio.
• Trend Micro Launches Managed Detection And Response Service.
• Cyberark Presents New Privileged Access Security As A Service Offering.
• Nutanix Introduces New Velocity Partner Program.
Assembling your cloud orchestra: A field guide to multi-cloud managementIBM
Operating in a multi-cloud environment is a reality for most organizations today. Whether it’s human resources recruiting candidates, manufacturing tracking shipments, or marketing enticing customers, business units are doing an end-run around their own IT departments to directly access services on the cloud. Instead of ignoring or attempting to stifle organizational forays into multiple clouds, IT needs to facilitate, orchestrate and optimize enterprise multi-cloud footing. Enterprises that assemble harmonized multi-cloud platforms now can magnify their business advantage while optimizing costs. But, it won’t be easy. Join the virtual event to hear how organizations are benefiting and mitigating challenges along with best practices for a successful multi-cloud management system.
9 Cloud Success Stories - Microsoft AzureEuro IT Group
Euro IT Group has broad experience in working with public (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), private or Hybrid cloud based environments. We have a deep understanding of the most significant cloud architectures, from Microsoft and Amazon to Google or Rackspace and a variety of adjacent systems that we have applied in real life projects.
Are you ready to shift to continuous delivery? DevOps, a leading software engineering innovation, makes this shift possible by bringing business, development and operation teams together to streamline IT and applying more automated processes.
Hybrid- and Multi-Cloud by design - IBM Cloud and your journey to CloudAleksandar Francuz
The following presentation is a strategic view on digital transformation initiatives, underpinned with examples in several industries and how IBM Cloud can support enterprises on their journey to Cloud.
The following charts gives you an overall overview about the Cloud market, challenges and the IBM Cloud portfolio to support enterprises in becoming more agile and more customer centric and to achieve a better customer experience by modernizing existing applications and developing new services based on data and AI (Artifical Intelligence).
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the May Edition:
• Dell EMC takes open networking to the edge for next-generation access.
• Microsoft announces new intelligent security innovations
• Powering partners’ transformation - Pradeep Kumar, Principal Consultant, Security, Redington Value.
• Redington Value signs new vendor partnerships.
• Fortinet delivers integrated NOC-SOC solution.
• HPE to acquire Cape Networks.
• Malwarebytes introduces endpoint protection and response solution.
• Mimecast offers cyber resilience for email with new capabilities.
• SonicWall announces Capture Cloud Platform.
• Veritas revamps channel program to drive partner growth.
• Red Hat announces availability of Red Hat Storage One.
• AWS announces Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access(Z-IA).
YASH Cloud Advisory services will help envision your cloud adoption and outline an appropriate strategy and roadmap on how the opportunities and/or transformation can be realized.
The paper aims to provide a means of understanding the model and exploring options available for complementing your technology and infrastructure needs.
The on-demand provision of computer services, including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, and analytics, is known as cloud computing. Cloud-based storage enables distant file saving as opposed to local storage or proprietary hard disk storage. Due to its ability to provide cost savings, enhanced productivity, speed and efficiency, performance, and security, cloud computing is becoming more and more popular among individuals and enterprises.
Discover how cloud services empower businesses with scalable and secure infrastructure solutions, ensuring seamless growth and data protection.
Learn more: https://www.grapestechsolutions.com/blog/building-scalable-and-secure-cloud-infrastructure/
Benefits of Extending PowerCenter with Informatica CloudAshwin V.
This white paper is for current customers of Informatica PowerCenter who are wondering how to integrate SaaS applications into their IT infrastructure with a cloud integration solution that complements their deployment of PowerCenter
Implementation of the Open Source Virtualization Technologies in Cloud Computingneirew J
The “Virtualization and Cloud Computing” is a recent buzzword in the digital world. Behind this fancy
poetic phrase there lies a true picture of future computing for both in technical and social perspective.
Though the “Virtualization and Cloud Computing are recent but the idea of centralizing computation and
storage in distributed data centres maintained by any third party companies is not new but it came in way
back in 1990s along with distributed computing approaches like grid computing, Clustering and Network
load Balancing. Cloud computing provide IT as a service to the users on-demand basis. This service has
greater flexibility, availability, reliability and scalability with utility computing model. This new concept of
computing has an immense potential in it to be used in the field of e-governance and in the overall IT
development perspective in developing countries like Bangladesh.
Implementation of the Open Source Virtualization Technologies in Cloud Computingijccsa
The “Virtualization and Cloud Computing” is a recent buzzword in the digital world. Behind this fancy
poetic phrase there lies a true picture of future computing for both in technical and social perspective.
Though the “Virtualization and Cloud Computing are recent but the idea of centralizing computation and
storage in distributed data centres maintained by any third party companies is not new but it came in way
back in 1990s along with distributed computing approaches like grid computing, Clustering and Network
load Balancing. Cloud computing provide IT as a service to the users on-demand basis. This service has
greater flexibility, availability, reliability and scalability with utility computing model. This new concept of
computing has an immense potential in it to be used in the field of e-governance and in the overall IT
development perspective in developing countries like Bangladesh.
ITALIA E DIPENDENZA ENERGETICA: DIVERSIFICARE LE FONTI E INVESTIRE SULLE RINNOVABILI PER UN FUTURO MENO VINCOLATO E PIÙ DECARBONIZZATO
Lo studio, presentato giovedì 5 maggio 2022 nel corso del Workshop dell’Osservatorio Utilities Agici – Accenture, delinea i possibili scenari per accelerare la trasformazione energetica del nostro Paese e raggiungere l’indipendenza dal gas. Lo studio si articola su due scenari in grado di anticipare gli obiettivi fissati al 2030 sulla decarbonizzazione, costruiti simulando un mix di interventi fondati su 4 leve principali: l’accelerazione sull’installazione di rinnovabili, l’incremento della produzione di biometano, l’aumento dell’efficienza energetica e la diversificazione delle importazioni di gas.
Accenture Italia Corporate Citizenship Report 2020Accenture Italia
Nel nostro paese, attraverso la comprensione della tecnologia e del suo impatto, ci impegniamo nel creare società più inclusive che offrano maggiori opportunità per le persone, i clienti, le comunità e l’ambiente, agendo come player responsabili. Il nostro impegno nell’ambito della Responsabilità Sociale ha l’obiettivo di valorizzare i talenti e favorire l’impiego delle persone, coinvolgendole in progetti gratuiti a beneficio della collettività. Attraverso il potere dell’innovazione generiamo valore sociale e offriamo competenze digitali alle fasce di popolazione senza accesso, aumentandone le opportunità professionali.
BUILDING A FUTURE OF SHARED SUCCESS
In this report, we are pleased to share our progress for 2019 across the focus areas of the United Nations Global Compact.
Gli approcci alla sostenibilità della GDO italianaAccenture Italia
Il tema della sostenibilità è cruciale per le aziende della grande distribuzione organizzata, che stanno superando il vecchio approccio del greenwashing a favore di interventi più solidi e strutturati. Questo è il dato positivo che emerge dalla ricerca “Gli approcci alla sostenibilità della GDO italiana” condotta da Accenture insieme a JEME, Junior Enterprise dell’Università Bocconi.
Dall’analisi si nota come le insegne inizino a muoversi in modo strutturato al loro interno, tuttavia, se è vero che la pianificazione non manca, ci sono ancora incertezze nell’allocare un budget chiaro a inizio anno e nel definire KPI misurabili.
Sustainability: A new integrated framework for enterprise performance managementAccenture Italia
Published on the 50th issue of IAFEI Quarterly in December 2020, this article by Accenture describes a new integrated framework for enterprise performance management. Authors are Elisa Bolognesi, Mauro Marchiaro and Aldo Pozzoli.
DRIIM, il programma di ricerca nato dalla collaborazione tra #ACINMilan e SDA Bocconi, ogni bimestre raccoglie gli aggiornamenti più rilevanti del mondo del retail e CPG, con l’obiettivo di identificare i trend più rilevanti del momento, tecnologie più innovative e delineare possibili traiettorie di sviluppo. Scopri le novità dei mesi di maggio e giugno 2019.
The Age of Relevance - Accenture Customer Innovation Network MilanAccenture Italia
All’interno del mutevole panorama contemporaneo, in cui il lavoro e i ruoli sono in continua evoluzione, dove l’uso della robotica è in forte crescita, lo sviluppo di nuove capacità è diventato un fattore fondamentale.
L'Accenture Customer Innovation Network (ACIN) è il laboratorio dove è possibile riconfigurare la percezione del proprio brand per massimizzarne la rilevanza. ACIN lavora con i clienti per connetterli con l'ecosistema circostante, per ispirarli e per aiutarli a scoprire insight sui loro clienti.
Le sue risorse, le sue strutture e il suo know-how aiutano a posizionare i brand in uno spazio più rilevante per i loro clienti, co-creando innovazione e realizzando la loro nuova brand purpose e creando scalabilità durante il processo di trasformazione.
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ACIC Rome & Veritas: High-Availability and Disaster Recovery Scenarios
1. White Paper | April 2020
Veritas and Accenture:
High-Availability and
Disaster Recovery
Scenarios
Using best-of-breed technologies to solve
organizations’ multi-cloud and hybrid challenges.
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INTRODUCTION
A hybrid cloud approach enables an organization to combine best-of-breed technologies while increasing cost-effectiveness and
ensuring independence from a single hosting provider. There are many reasons why organizations are moving to the cloud, such as to:
• Become more agile and flexible.
• Innovate faster.
• Shift everything to the “as-a service” model.
• Simplify IT operations.
• Improve application high availability (HA).
• Enable low-cost disaster recovery (DR).
Thinking about an HA/DR strategy, implementing it and confirming it works is crucial to ensuring an organization’s business continuity is
impacted by minimal application downtime. In this context, it’s essential to understand the ecosystem of the organization’s applications
and their dependencies.
Typically, there are two business scenarios we encounter:
• Multi-Cloud—Organizations that are migrating their entire application services portfolio to the cloud or have adopted an all-in or
“full-cloud” strategy with their cloud providers and need better application HA performance and resiliency.
• Hybrid—Organizations that prefer to adopt a hybrid model where application services are hosted on-premises and in the cloud or
between clouds.
Veritas and the Accenture Cloud Innovation Center (ACIC) have worked synergistically to develop established blueprints to address
these scenarios to support organizations during their journey to the cloud:
• Multi-Cloud—Using Veritas InfoScale™, we help organizations design an application-aware solution for HA and DR in a
full-cloud context.
• Hybrid—Using Veritas Resiliency Platform, we help organizations during their migration to the cloud, managing hybrid DR
architectures able to run nondisruptive tests and Instant Recovery Restores in a single pane of glass.
SCENARIO 1: ENSURING MULTI-CLOUD DR WITH INFOSCALE
Context and Client Challenges
Hybrid clouds are becoming standard for many enterprises. The factors
driving this decision include increased flexibility as well as savings in
capital expenses (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx). Although there
is considerable interest in hybrid-cloud deployment models, ensuring
seamless data movement, enterprise performance, scalability and
resilience can be challenging. An unplanned disruption to the business/
data center can have highly destructive and far-reaching impacts on
productivity, customer services, the supply chain and revenues. To avoid
this outcome, enterprises must implement robust solutions to ensure
their services are always up and running.
When it comes to the cloud, and specifically to Amazon Web Services (AWS), intelligently using availability zones and geographical
areas can make the difference in business continuity. Such a strategy protects organizations against the failure of a single availability
zone and/or geographical area, keeping the service always on. (See Figure 1.)
Cloud
Availability
Zone 2
Cloud
Availability
Zone 1
Cloud
Availability
Zone 3
Figure 1. Enable application high availability (HA)
by using multiple AWS availability zones.
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In this context, InfoScale enables organizations to protect their most important applications from planned and unplanned downtime
while providing HA and DR solutions for critical business services, including individual databases, custom applications and complex,
multi-tiered applications across virtual and physical environments over any distance.
InfoScale monitors applications and infrastructure to detect possible risks to availability and automatically recovers applications when
needed. InfoScale also detects site outages and initiates application recovery at a DR site. With built-in testing to proactively detect
and report potential problems before they can impact IT services, InfoScale helps minimize unwanted downtime of critical business
services.
Our Approach
To address the need for a service to be always up and running, Accenture and Veritas chose Veritas InfoScale technology. As software-
defined storage solution, InfoScale offers enterprise-grade capabilities for organizations looking to deploy and run top-tier applications
across multiple clouds. InfoScale delivers a complete suite of capabilities for organizations looking to deploy a robust, multi-cloud
infrastructure that includes public clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. InfoScale does so by offering:
• Intelligent data movement to the cloud—Organizations need to ensure they’re moving data to the cloud in an optimal way.
InfoScale includes SmartMove technology that ensures efficient, intelligent data migration to help organizations save on bandwidth
and storage costs while migrating application data to the cloud. SmartMove analyses storage usage by looking up the file system
(VxFS) metadata and moving only relevant or active data to the cloud. For example, if an organization has provisioned 10 TB
of storage and has 3 TB of active (non-deleted) data, then a standard data mover typically moves 10 TB of data to the cloud by
considering all non-zero-bit strings as valid data. In contrast, InfoScale’s SmartMove technology looks up the file system metadata
and then moves only the non-deleted or active data to the cloud. SmartMove can also optimize data movement to the cloud in terms
of CPU, bandwidth and schedule.
• Applications failure management in seconds—Many, if not most applications require HA in the event of a node (compute and/
or data), availability zone or regional outage. InfoScale provides automated remediation actions via its Intelligent Monitoring
Framework (IMF), which monitors applications at a service level and triggers a failover in seconds, not minutes, when it detects an
application failure. Organizations can even perform a “fire drill” to identify potential problems and ensure applications will failover
predictably. InfoScale offers application-aware agents for leading enterprise applications, and organizations can write custom
agents for in-house applications. Volume and file-level replication ensure application data is replicated to other AWS availability
zones or regions to protect against a large-scale infrastructure outage.
• Software-defined storage capabilities—Today’s data centers have multiple layers of physical and virtual environments, each with
its own administrative tools, with applications or entire business services composed of multiple components that interact with each
other despite running on different operating systems and virtualization technologies. InfoScale provides automated, orchestrated
recovery of applications composed of multiple components running on different virtual tiers (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. Monitoring Apache application components via InfoScale.
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With InfoScale, IT administrators can not only recover failed applications but also automatically orchestrate the connection to other
computing resources needed to keep the business service available via a faster recovery with minimal downtime and no manual
intervention. (See Figure 3.)
• Compatibility with hundreds of applications and databases—InfoScale provides off-the-shelf support for a wide range of
applications, reducing deployment times for SAP®
, BEA®
, Siebel®
, Oracle applications, Microsoft Exchange and PeopleSoft as well
as enterprise-class databases such as Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase.
• Storage reliability and performance—Mission-critical applications demand the same performance and resiliency characteristics
as they do on-premises. The SmartIO and Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) technologies in InfoScale provide performance gains and
shared storage capabilities that deliver predictable service-level agreements (SLAs).
ν SmartIO—In AWS, SmartIO uses instance store-SSD storage closest to compute as a data caching device to improve
performance. The result: InfoScale’s SmartIO technology accelerates the workload’s throughput by 4X (for a 20 percent
cache hit).
ν Flexible Storage Sharing—FSS in AWS uses elastic block storage (EBS) volumes and creates a shared-nothing cluster to meet
protocol flexibility and performance needs and delivers horizontal scalability for enterprise applications. The result: InfoScale’s
FSS technology allows organizations to scale IOPS linearly. Organizations can even run multiple applications in a single FSS
cluster and set up SLAs to ensure isolation among applications. This type of deployment unlocks valuable use cases such as
running real-time analytics on incoming transactional data or fraud detection on credit card transactions.
• Broad hardware and platform support—InfoScale
is the only solution that supports all leading
operating systems, including Windows, Linux and
virtual platforms including VMware®
ESX®
, Red
Hat®
Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), Oracle VM
and Hyper-V. As proved in the ACIC Lab, InfoScale
also ensures application availability in full-cloud
environments hosted in AWS, Azure and Google.
• Simplified migration and integration—InfoScale
monitors applications and, in case of failure,
handles their recovery to a healthy virtual machine
(VM) running on a different platform. InfoScale also
enables organizations to easily migrate workloads,
automatically supporting physical, virtual and all
major public clouds, thus avoiding vendor lock-in.
(See Figure 4.)
Figure 3. Admins can use InfoScale’s central dashboard, Operations Manager, to manage data and application failures.
Figure 4. Monitoring application movement via InfoScale’s
central dashboard, Operations Manager.
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In this specific ACIC scenario, we focused on an AWS full-cloud
environment with application HA guaranteed by InfoScale and applied
to multiple availability zones (see Figure 5).
Deployment of the InfoScale environment on AWS is based on the
following best practices:
• Using AWS Cloud Formation to create cloud-based InfoScale
environments to accelerate deployment (see Figure 6).
• Developing applications on AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
instances, not relational database service (RDS) instances.
• Using AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) to enable data mirroring
between availability zones and data replication between
geographical areas.
• Using AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to manage traffic routing
between availability zones.
• Applying the required routing tables to allow application services to properly communicate between availability zones.
• Using a Coordination Point Server on a third availability zone (optional and not included in this scenario) to arbitrate in case of
network failures between availability zones.
Following these guidelines and using InfoScale, we’ve enabled a high-performance, Apache-based application to be highly available,
thus guarantying service continuity between different AWS availability zones in two main situations:
• Application downtime.
• AWS availability zone downtime.
Figure 6. AWS Cloud Formation deployment of InfoScale environments.
Amazon
Availability
Zone 2
Amazon
Availability
Zone 1
InfoScale
Amazon
Availability
Zone 3
AWS
AWS
AWS
Figure 5. InfoScale enables application HA
in a multi-availability zone scenario.
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This scenario includes use of additional AWS features such as ELB to enable service continuity transparently (see Figure 7).
Conclusion
Organizations need to use new, innovative solutions and technologies to enable high-performance applications to become highly
available and guarantee minimum business downtime. Accenture and Veritas are excited to fill that need by using InfoScale to provide
the following advantages:
• Intelligent data movement to the cloud.
• HA between AWS availability zones and DR between different geographical areas.
• Storage reliability and performance.
• Application services that are always up and running by managing failures transparently to the application service.
• Software-defined storage capabilities.
• A simple approach for all the business-critical applications that supports a broad range of architectures: physical to virtual, virtual
to virtual, physical/virtual to cloud, cloud to cloud and cloud to physical/virtual.
• Integration with Veritas Resiliency Platform to provide a single pane of glass for orchestrating any kind of architecture.
SCENARIO 2: BUILDING HYBRID-CLOUD DR WITH RESILIENCY PLATFORM
Context and Client Challenges
Business continuity orchestration is an essential part of any organization’s planning and operation, and many are increasingly faced
with the need to reduce infrastructure and management costs while deploying high-performance resilient architectures. This mandate
translates into increased time and complexity required for proper DR management.
The cloud has been the next big thing in IT since virtualization, and
organizations around the world are adopting it. Although the cloud offers
big benefits with the potential for high business returns in the short term,
organizations need to stay agile and view the cloud as just one strategic
element of an independent business strategy that protects business
applications around-the-clock and ensures a strong return on investment
(ROI), regardless of where applications are hosted. The key is for
organizations to be able to move business services on demand seamlessly
to and from any single cloud or even across multiple, disparate clouds
as needed. Such organizations need help managing and orchestrating
the business continuity of their services as well as managing migrations
from on-premises to the cloud and/or between clouds without losing the
benefits of a hybrid-cloud strategy. (See Figure 8.)
Availability Zone 1
EC2 Instance EC2 InstanceApplication HA
AWS Elastic
Load Balancer
VIOM
Availability Zone 2
EBS Magnetic
HDD and SSD
EBS Magnetic
HDD and SSD
EC2 Instance
Figure 7. A high-level design of how InfoScale enables application HA/migration between AWS availability zones.
Figure 8. Enable easy management of a hybrid-cloud environment
via a single pane of glass with Resiliency Platform.
Public Cloud ProviderOn-Premises Infrastructure
Resiliency
Platform
Replication
Appliance
Replication
Appliance
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Whether you’re adopting the cloud as a permanent location for business applications or as a temporary home for applications in case of
a DR scenario, there are several factors to consider before making the move.
• Cloud migration—Migrating business workloads to the cloud can be tricky and complex due to multiple moving parts. Organizations
need to secure business data during the transfer from on-premises to the cloud and consider the dependencies within complex,
multitier applications. Another potential roadblock is not having the ability to test migrations or to test how workloads perform
in the cloud before moving services off-premises. Without advance testing, organizations can incur thousands or even millions of
dollars in lost revenue if a migration doesn’t go smoothly or if applications don’t work as expected in the cloud. The biggest risk,
however, arises when an organization hasn’t carefully thought out its long-term cloud strategy. Today, the move to the cloud may
be economical, but in a few years, an organization may want to move applications back on-premises or to another cloud if business
priorities change. Without a failsafe for doing so, they may end up harming their long-term ROI.
• Cloud disaster recovery—DR is essential, and whether organizations are adopting a cloud-based DR approach for all business
operations or just some of them, the potential CapEx savings can be tremendous. It’s essential to ensure that OpEx doesn’t
suddenly skyrocket, however, organizations commonly employ application or workload resiliency measures to maintain business
and application continuity. They could be managing resiliency operations across a hybrid-cloud architecture where resiliency
personnel are managing legacy applications in on-premises data centers as well as managing resiliency across new cloud
architectures, which requires additional training. Using multiple tools across different sub-environments can also lead to
fragmentation, causing visibility and subsequent management issues and leading to an increased risk of downtime. Another key
aspect many organizations fail to consider is whether they have a reliable way to test their DR strategy. Unfortunately, some still
rely on an inefficient, all-hands-on-deck manual approach and weekend testing, which can be costly and time-consuming.
Our Approach
Despite today’s often-complex application infrastructures, it’s possible to ensure predictable resiliency for your business applications
across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. To do so, your business likely requires:
• A unified, automated approach that considers resiliency for applications across all locations, including the cloud.
• The ability to proactively test and re-test your migration strategy and DR preparedness easily whenever required without disrupting
normal business operations.
• The flexibility to move your business applications to any target location, including the ability to migrate or failback applications from
the cloud to on-premises at a moment’s notice.
Organizations can finally address all these requirements with Veritas Resiliency Platform. (See Figure 9.)
Figure 9. A high-level design of how to manage application DR/migration in AWS with Resiliency Platform.
Primary Site
Cloud-Optimized
Secure Data
Movement
Secondary Site
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Instance
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Furthermore, integrating an organization’s hybrid environment with Veritas NetBackup™ ensures a smoother recovery for all those VMs
that don’t need a short recovery point objective (RPO). The result is a ready-to-use environment with no waiting for restore time.
The key components of Resiliency Platform deployed in this scenario are:
• Resiliency Manager—Deployed as a virtual appliance hosted in the AWS cloud, Resiliency Manager is responsible for data center
discovery, providing information on the assets to protect (storage arrays, VMs, applications) within a resiliency domain (the
organization’s infrastructure).
• Infrastructure Management Server—Deployed as virtual appliances hosted in the AWS cloud, Infrastructure Management Servers
are exploited by the Resiliency Manager to discover and monitor assets (storage arrays, VMs, applications) within a data center to
enable proper management and protection of the organization’s infrastructure.
• Data Mover—Deployed as a virtual appliance hosted in the AWS cloud, the Data Mover is responsible for replicating VM data and
configuration from the local (source) data center to the remote (target) data center. This capability addresses migration to the cloud
as well as hybrid or full-cloud DR, including nondisruptive DR testing.
Using Resiliency Platform enables organizations to:
• Orchestrate complex recoveries with predictability—Organizations typically have large groups of applications and/or VMs, some
or all with complex interdependencies that must be considered during stop and start procedures. When large-scale failures or
site outages occur, organizations don’t have time to waste on manual procedures. Their DR procedures must be executed quickly
and flawlessly regardless of any underlying complexities. Ensuring success requires taking minimal steps along with providing
a dashboard view to ensure visibility into when services come back online and identify any problems. Resiliency Platform fully
automates all recovery procedures across a multi-vendor, multi-platform environment so admins can easily perform site-to-site
large-scale recoveries with just a single click. A central dashboard provides visibility into how applications are meeting defined
service-level objectives (SLOs) along with end-to-end visibility into recovery procedures to help monitor progress and resolve
problems quickly, if required. (See Figure 10.)
Figure 10. Easily manage a DR event via Resiliency Platform’s central dashboard.
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• Ensure DR readiness with nondisruptive testing—Organizations shouldn’t wait for a disaster to find out if their recovery plan will
succeed. DR testing is vital, but is too often labor-intensive and carried out only during weekend hours. Businesses need to provide
proof or assure internal and external stakeholders they will recover if a disaster is declared. They need the ability to test at any
time without disrupting normal business operations and without requiring all-hands-on-deck during weekend hours. With Resiliency
Platform and NetBackup, organizations can now nondisruptively rehearse recovery plans at any time to ensure proactive DR
readiness and predictable recovery. Veritas provides a unified approach to testing that considers the need for business applications
to recover data from disparate sources such as NetBackup or via hardware-based or host-based replication. The Veritas unified
resiliency solution provides up-to-a-millisecond view of the time required for a business to recover services, performs automated
clean-up to quickly release resources without manual involvement and enables organizations to prove compliance with internal and
external business continuity mandates. (See Figure 11.)
• Achieve any SLO—An organization’s business applications likely span a range of SLOs. Backup and replication technologies
are designed for different service levels and are usually managed separately with different processes and teams. Centrally
managing resiliency for all SLOs requires centralized visibility and control of data availability across both backup and replicated
data transports. Resiliency Platform’s direct integration with NetBackup delivers resiliency for any SLO—from the top tier to the
bottom—with simple management from a single console. This approach reduces manual efforts and OpEx, letting backup and
virtualization admins concentrate on more important tasks. And most important, it helps avoid the chaos many organizations face
without this level of unified resiliency.
• Seamlessly migrate complex,
tiered applications between
on-premises and the cloud—
Business applications shouldn’t be
tied to a single location. Instead,
organizations should be able to
move applications and data easily
anywhere, depending on business
and budgetary needs, whether it’s
to the cloud or back on-premises
(see Figure 12).
Figure 11. Execute a DR preparedness test with no impact to already-running applications with Resiliency Platform.
Figure 12. Enable easy workload migration in a hybrid-cloud scenario with Resiliency Platform.