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10 Exciting Things to Know About VMware Ransomware and Disaster Recovery

In 2022, we announced VMware Ransomware Recovery, the industry’s first fully managed and purpose-built ransomware recovery-as-a-service solution. We have seen customers of all sizes and industries adopt the solution to recover confidently from existential threats, quickly recover with guided automation, and streamline recovery operations. 

In 2023, we announced some exciting innovations that will take this unique solution to new heights and further differentiate it from the rest of the industry. 

In addition, we introduced some new capabilities across our disaster recovery portfolio to address all your data protection needs for all your workloads.

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Don’t have time to watch the full session? Here’s a rundown of key takeaways:

1. Enhance On-Prem Workloads with Cloud Services: Bring cloud benefits to on-prem without having to change your infrastructure, migrate workloads, or change configuration. While offering value-adds like fleetwide lifecycle management, disaster recovery, and protection against ransomware.

2. Fleetwide ESXi Lifecycle Management: Significantly enhance productivity by managing updates for an entire ESXi fleet centrally from the VMware Cloud Console, thus minimizing the efforts and time required for individual updates.

3. New DevOps Services: Innovative DevOps services facilitates speedy set-up of Supervisor Clusters, replication of standardized configurations across multiple clusters, and self-service provisioning of VMs.

4. vSphere on DPUs: Unlock the potential of DPUs, enabling it to offload network services and functionality for improved performance with hardware acceleration and maintain a secure operating model.

5. Powering AI/ML Workloads and VMware Private AI: Run comprehensive AI/ML models with generous vGPU and passthrough device allocations, while VMware Private AI provides an architectural approach that balances the business gains from AI with the privacy and compliance needs of the organization.

6. Declarative Cluster Lifecycle Management: Optimize IT maintenance by facilitating faster maintenance via ESXi image pre-staging and concurrent remediation of multiple hosts.

7. Security and Identity Federation: Leverage modern authentication processes with various identity providers and multi-factor authentication options, ensuring strong security and compliance measures.

8. Reduced Downtime Upgrades for vCenter: Upgrade vCenter with minimal downtime, reducing service disruption times to around 5 minutes, using a migration-based approach.

9. vCenter Maintenance Resilience: Make vCenter maintenance operations a breeze with resilient patching, seamless certificate management, and reliable network configuration recovery, enhancing overall maintenance operations.

10. Sustainable IT Footprint: Take advantage of Green Metrics, enabling users to track their infrastructure’s environmental impact and promote sustainability.


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