The increasing rewards for cybercriminals who pull off successful cyberattacks have led to a rise in both their frequency and potential for damage.
VMware Live Recovery is an essential component of a company’s cyber resilience strategy, serving as a crucial safeguard, according to Yoomi Hong (pictured), director of product marketing, core infrastructure, at Broadcom Inc. It is specifically designed to help businesses recover quickly and securely in the event of a ransomware attack.
“It’s essential to have recovery measures in place, and this is where VMware Live Recovery comes in,” she said Yoomi Hong. “It’s a key enabler for the cyber-resilient VCF environment serving as that critical last line of defense in case an attack does come through. Because recovering from an attack is a very complicated task these days, we allow customers to securely and confidently recover from what has now become an existential threat.”
In a recent CUBE Conversation, Hong joined theCUBE Research’s Christophe Bertrand to discuss VMware’s cyber solutions empowering organizations with a comprehensive framework that combines security, flexibility and ease of use. (* Disclosure below.)
VMware Live Recovery: Enhancing flexibility and disaster readiness
VMware Live Recovery hosts a unified management experience, allowing users to handle both ransomware recovery and disaster recovery across various environments, whether on-premises or in the public cloud. One of its standout features is the ability to run workloads in an isolated environment, using embedded behavioral analysis to ensure that recovery efforts do not reinfect systems, according to Hong.
“We have a unique set of features that help customers recover from ransomware attacks, especially the modern forms of ransomware that are prevalent today,” she said. “We’re able to bring up the workloads in an isolated clean room, run those workloads using embedded live behavioral analysis of those workloads, and automate all of this with an end-to-end ransomware recovery workflow.”
A key challenge in disaster recovery is balancing complexity with ease of use. VMware has addressed this with a simplified subscription model, with flexibility across different environments. Users can start with on-prem disaster recovery and seamlessly transition to cloud-based solutions as needed, without needing to overhaul their existing systems or purchase new licenses, Hong explained.
“We’ve also drastically simplified the consumption experience for our customers,” she said. “All of these capabilities are available with a single subscription. We’ve also added flexibility within the licensing structure as well.”
This flexibility also extends to the technical capabilities. VMware Live Recovery now includes features such as on-prem disaster recovery with recovery point objectives as low as one minute. The platform also supports both local and cloud-based ransomware recovery, offering businesses multiple options depending on their specific needs and compliance requirements, according to Hong.
“We introduced the capability for customers to protect the same workload with on-premises disaster recovery and cloud-based ransomware recovery,” she said. “Recently, we also added a really cool feature, one that we previewed in Barcelona last year, called Cybersecure Storage.”
VMware’s solutions have shown real-world value in helping businesses navigate challenging situations. A prime example is Fozzy Group LLC, one of Ukraine’s largest retailers.
“When the war broke out, they needed a way to transfer all of their data outside of Ukraine and protect them outside of Ukraine in case of a disruption due to wartime or natural disasters,” Hong said. “This is where we were able to help the customer out with VMware Live Recovery, replicating hundreds of terabytes of data to the cloud in a matter of one to two weeks.”
Here’s theCUBE’s complete video interview with Yoomi Hong:
(* Disclosure: VMware by Broadcom sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither VMware nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)