Choosing a hybrid data center allows companies to better manage their data on-premises or in a cloud, whether public or private. This flexibility helps organizations address the growing threats that affect the way business is done today.
As an adaptable and flexible IT environment, a hybrid data center provides organizations with a viable and practical system to respond in real-time to not only frequent ransomware attacks, but a variety of ever-evolving business challenges. A hybrid data center offers better security, performance, reliability, agility, scalability and cost savings.
All these benefits bring new management challenges as hybrid environments add complexity to managing servers, storage, networks and software across the IT infrastructure.
Caio Sposito, Country Manager for Brazil at Arcserve
“Enterprises must be able to recover data and applications in the cloud or on-premises, regardless of where the organization initially hosted their data and applications,” says Caio Sposito, country manager for Brazil at Arcserve, a leading provider of protection against ransomware attacks. and resiliency of the world's data. In the executive's view, three measures are fundamental for managing and protecting data in a hybrid data center.
centralized backup
Centralized backup management is essential for successful data protection in a hybrid data center. Many backup software providers integrate their backup software with the management console offered by the cloud provider, virtual machine management, or operating system. This makes managing backups as part of operations in a specific environment simpler. But the same is not true in a hybrid data center, where a separate, centralized console allows users and administrators to monitor and manage the backup and recovery of workloads running on-premises and in the cloud, creating policies such as service level agreements. service for each environment and then apply them according to the demand of each one.
Workload mobility
In a hybrid environment, workloads reside in the cloud, on-premises, or both. A data protection solution must do more than identify the backup location and recognize the environment in which a workload is recovered. It is vital that the solution is able to take the necessary steps for successful data recovery. This ability to back up and recover workloads in a cloud or on-premises environment is critical.
Ransomware protection
Cybercriminals know that by compromising backups or backup software, they increase their chances of getting a ransom payment. Thus, backup software deployed in a hybrid data center must provide measures to mitigate and repel these attacks, authenticating and authorizing any user who wants access. Backup software must also offer the ability to manage immutable storage technologies, keeping backups in a readable but not mutable format, thus preventing criminals from encrypting them.
“Organizations need a new approach to meeting the data security needs of a hybrid data center, including the latest technologies such as air-gapping, which are proven to defend backups against increasingly sophisticated attacks. They allow organizations to back up data to disks or tapes, which can be physically separated from the production environment”, concludes Caio Spósito.
