EDITOR’S QUESTION
HOW CAN DATA CENTRE
LEADERS ENSURE
RESILIENCE IN TODAY’S
RAPID GROWTH MARKET?
As the amount of data 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
“
WITH HOME
WORKING NOW
SET TO BECOME
A LONG-TERM
SOLUTION . . .
THERE IS AN
URGENT NEED
FOR AFFORDABLE,
HIGH-
PERFORMANCE
AND SECURE
‘WORK FROM
ANYWHERE’
INFRASTRUCTURE.
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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