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Vsphere 6.5: BIG CHANGES ADVERTORIAL December 2016 | Vol. 9 No. 6 VirtualizationReview.com AND THE WINNERS ARE … Our picks for the best, most-useful products of the past year. PLUS > TOP 10 VIRTUALIZATION STORIES OF 2016 > YOUR IoT PLANNING GUIDE > vSPHERE 6.5: BIG CHANGES ADVERTORIAL When dealing with today's ransomware threats, WHY A DRAAS SOLUTION IS YOUR time is your worst enemy. The faster you can detect the encryption, the more time you have to take DRAAS-TICALLY BETTER DEFENSE actions to restore your database or mission-critical application. Simple backup procedures will let you AGAINST RANSOMWARE restore your production database, but it will take If your production database or mission-critical application gets infected, how significantly more time than a modern disaster long would it take you to recover? recovery as a service (DRaaS) solution. Compare the process of restoring a production database from a cloud backup vs. a modern DRaaS solution: Is DB part of a cluster? Repeat each of these steps for each machine connected to cluster. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ransomware Power down Determine Rebuild server Reconfigure Restore clean Inject old DB (from Establish Infection machine date/time (OS and software DB services DB files restored backup) connectivity of infection installation) from backup to rebuilt DB (DB & input svcs) CLOUD BACKUP TOTAL DOWNTIME (BEST CASE): 4-5 hours 1 2 3 4 5 Ransomware Power down Determine date/time Log into DRaaS Boot VM (from DRaaS Infection machine of infection dashboard last clean backup) TOTAL DOWNTIME: 1-2 minutes 3 Ways a DRaaS Solution is DRaaS-tically Better Defense Against Ransomware Dramaticaly Quickly Pinpointing Built-In 1 Faster RTOs 2 the Time of Infection 3 Orchestration DRaaS solutions equip you with the ability to With a cloud backup, it takes a while to determine if your application When it comes to restoring applications and quickly failover productions systems by has been corrupted. Admins must download the application files production databases from a backup requires spinning up VMs or images in the cloud (or a from the cloud (based on your most recent backup), rebuild, and some planning and coordination. Leading local appliance) in minutes. Restoring your then compile the database or application. If the application runs, DRaaS solutions include built-in failover files from a clean backup will take 4-5 hours then you know you have restored a clean copy; otherwise, you need orchestration that let you create and that’s if the stars align. That’s a big to go back to your next recent backup and recompile. This can take predetermined failover plans for a group of difference -- minutes vs. hours – and that hours. With DRaaS, admins can boot a production server and replicated VMs, which can be to boot difference can be catastrophic depending on immediately verify whether the application is infection-free. If it simultaneously or in a specific order. the business and the transactions feeding successfully boots, then you have a clean image. This takes the your production databases. guessing game out of “Is this a clean backup?” Learn More Infrascale provides the most powerful disaster recovery and cloud backup solutions in the world. Our mission is to eradicate downtime and data loss by equipping EVERY organization with the ability to recover mission critical data and applications within minutes. www.infrascale.com +1 877.896.3611 VISIT VIRTUALIZATIONREVIEW.COM ED NOTEWARD 8 KEITH WARD What I Learned About Virtualization in 2016 Typically, year-end magazine issues make predictions for the coming year. I thought it might be a nice change of pace to take a look back on what I learned in the past year, rather than focusing on what I think might happen in the next one. So here are the main virtualization eye- openers for me from 2016. The Internet of Things (IoT) has legs.In journalism, December 2016 | VIRTUALIZATION REVIEW | VOL. 9, NO. 6 a story with “legs” is something that’s more than a one-day story; it lasts for a while (sometimes much longer), with potential to grow much larger. For me, the IoT is that story. COVER STORY It was clear, of course, that embedded technology was 8 2016 Virtualization Review Editor’s Choice Awards growing more popular, and has been for years. But I didn’t A guide to the products our contributing editors nd irresistible. think it would become as big as it was, as fast as it has. I FEATURES still don’t trust some of the applications—self-driving cars, for instance, terrify me as a concept—but there’s no denying 24 Top 10 Virtualization Stories of 2016 VMware gets a new owner, Citrix gets a new leader and the that its initial uses have grown into something much larger future gets even cloudier. It was a busy news year. and more comprehensive. The downside of this networked phenomenon is that it’s also more ripe for abuse, meaning that IoT security will 30 The Internet of Things Is Coming. Plan Accordingly. IoT is here, but isn’t yet well developed. Before jumping in, become a much bigger story, as well. consider carefully what’s available now and what your goals are VMware fi gured out its cloud strategy. VMware for the future. had already staked out some strong, non-hypervisor-related paths, including software-defi ned networking and mobile device management. But it wasn’t enough to support the company going forward, as everyone knew. COLUMNS That missing piece? It was obviously the cloud, but 38 Dan’s Take: DAN KUSNETZKY VMware had been thrashing about in that space for years, Containers: SOA in Disguise trying to fi nd something solid to latch onto. Then, in 2016, 39 The Cranky Admin: TREVOR POTT it started partnering with public cloud companies—most Key Factors in Choosing On-Premises IT vs. Public Cloud notably Amazon Web Services—in an offering that would keep vSphere and other VMware-specifi c technologies 40 Take 5: TOM FENTON front and center, while still giving customers an onramp Thoughts on the Container Industry to a public cloud that they could trust (and no, vCloud Air wasn’t, and isn’t, that platform). Now, VMware’s offering gives customers a familiar environment while providing cloud peace of mind. Truly a win-win-win: for customers, VMware and the public cloud. Here’s to a great 2017! 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