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VMware Explore Barcelona 2023 Recap

Zerto

Though ransomware has dominated conversations in the data protection sphere for quite some time, stories of recent outages due to this threat still circulate. A colleague and I hosted a riveting session on the Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault , a roundtable discussion that garnered so much interest we had to accommodate an overspill.

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

When a hurricane leads to widespread power outages, flooding, and workforce disruption, for example, an effective disaster recovery plan ensures that IT systems remain up and running and that operations can come back online as soon as possible. Consider investing in technology solutions that are designed with resiliency in mind.

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

When a regional storm makes travel difficult and causes short-term power outages, for example, an effective business continuity plan will have already laid out the potential impact, measures to mitigate associated problems, and a strategy for communicating with employees, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders.

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RTO vs. RPO: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Meanwhile, RPO is the service level defining the point in time when data loss resulting from an outage becomes unacceptable. Both represent critical points of failure. Cost: Backups cost money.

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RTO vs. RPO: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Meanwhile, RPO is the service level defining the point in time when data loss resulting from an outage becomes unacceptable. Both represent critical points of failure. Cost: Backups cost money.

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Supply Chain Resiliency: Beyond Third-Party Risk Programs

FS-ISAC

Now that cyber attacks are a primary reason suppliers become unavailable, the two areas need to come together both in the documentation of plans and testing. Third-party risk programs can assess the cyber resiliency of each key supplier, but that is not enough.

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Scary DR Stories 2023 Recap

Zerto

This year we had three spine-tingling tales that covered everything from hardware failures and human errors to ominous outages, monstrous migrations, and a blindsiding bioterrorism attack! However, a power outage and backup generator failure led to a communication breakdown. Zerto’s Cyber Resilience Vault is the solution.

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