EDITOR’S QUESTION
HOW CAN DATA CENTRE LEADERS
ENSURE RESILIENCE IN TODAY’S RAPID
GROWTH MARKET?
s the amount of data
A
continues to grow at an
unprecedented rate,
business leaders must
discover new ways of
managing it and in turn,
find ways to secure it to avoid data loss.
Scale Computing, a market leader
in Edge Computing, virtualisation
and hyperconverged solutions, has
announced a business resilience
solution combining preventative
availability and reactive recovery
technologies to ensure organisations
can keep data, applications and workers
online in an increasingly digital world.
The ever-present threats we are seeing
more of can disrupt ongoing business
operations and current investments in
Digital Transformation projects.
Built around its highly available HC3
platform, Scale Computing’s Business
Resilience Solution brings together server
virtualisation, end-user computing, data
protection and threat mitigation into a
single package. This includes complete
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and
remote-work infrastructure with built-in
disaster recovery services, enhanced
by Scale Computing’s partnership
with Acronis to offer best-of-breed
ransomware protection and data backup.
In addition, Scale Computing’s
partnerships with VDI software
providers are shrinking the traditionally
high costs of VDI while reducing
setup and management complexity.
The solution can be sized to support
organisations of any size, including small
and mid-market businesses that have
previously thought VDI too large an
investment for their needs.
“We at Horizon Health have been working
focused on enabling remote work and
virtual desktops as part of our Digital
Transformation initiative and when our
staff needed to work from home we were
prepared. I had a user tell me she was
‘overjoyed’ about being able to see her
same desktop from home that she sees at
work. For a small hospital, this has been
a game-changer,” said Ernest Wallace,
Computer Technician, Horizon Health.
Acronis Cyber Backup provides active
ransomware protection features and
a full complement of data backup
capabilities. The solution actively
monitors virtual machines and can
detect ransomware attacks as they are
occurring and automatically roll back
infections in real-time. In addition to
ransomware protection, Acronis Cyber
Backup provides a powerful solution
for data protection and recovery, giving
organisations with remote workers the
confidence to adapt their infrastructure to
current needs.
“With home working now set to become
a long-term solution for millions of
organisations around the world alongside
a massive increase in opportunist
cybercrime, there is an urgent need for
affordable, high-performance and secure
‘work from anywhere’ infrastructure
designed for that purpose. Organisations
need to move beyond emergency
tech rollouts and take a strategic view
of business resilience to protect their
workers and data,” said Jeff Ready, CEO
and Co-founder, Scale Computing.
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