Safeguarding Your Data in Today’s Multi-Cloud World
73% of enterprises use two or more public clouds today, and 81% plan to do so by 2024.1 In today’s landscape, multi-cloud adoption has become the norm for businesses seeking agility, scalability, and flexibility. Embracing a multi-cloud strategy enables organizations to leverage a diverse range of cloud providers, ensuring that applications and data are optimally placed to meet specific requirements.
However, as the multi-cloud landscape expands, so do the challenges of safeguarding critical data against ransomware attacks. These challenges include:
- Growing attack surface: Multi-cloud environments often lead to data fragmentation, as data becomes dispersed across distributed data centers, public clouds, and edge devices. This dispersion makes it challenging to maintain centralized visibility and exposes the data to various vulnerabilities.
- Increasing sophistication of attacks: The attacks themselves have become more sophisticated. Most attacks today exclusively use fileless techniques. These forms of attacks work in-memory and use legitimate protocols to to evade detection, exploit vulnerabilities, and gain stronger footholds in compromised systems.
- Inconsistent operating models: Each cloud provider has its own operating model and services, creating a complex landscape. The lack of consistency across clouds forces companies to protect their multi-cloud environments using disjointed tools and processes. When a ransomware attack occurs, recovery is long and unpredictable due to the many tools and manual processes involved.
To effectively protect against modern ransomware attacks in today’s multi-cloud world, organizations need centralized visibility and control, advanced recovery capabilities, and a consistent operating model across clouds.
VMware’s Vision: Data Protection Platform for the Multi-Cloud
Through an easy-to-use cloud-based SaaS solution, our goal is to empower organizations to protect any application running on any VMware-based cloud, and to recover those applications to any VMware-based cloud target. We are also aiming to offer this platform across the entire spectrum of data protection use cases from ransomware recovery to disaster recovery, operational backup and restore, and even long-term retention.
We believe that VMware Cloud – whether it is a private cloud in your on-premises data center, a public cloud, or a local cloud – offers the most operationally consistent infrastructure that makes this uniquely achievable by VMware. In addition, because of VMware’s long history of innovation in cloud infrastructure, recovery, ransomware detection, and software-based networking, VMware is in a unique position to deliver the most advanced and integrated set of data protection capabilities for combating modern threats.
Announcing Protection of Google Cloud VMware Engine Workloads
With the latest release, we are expanding the set of multi-cloud infrastructure offerings supported by VMware Ransomware Recovery. We are pleased to announce that VMware Ransomware Recovery and VMware Cloud DR now protect Google Cloud VMware Engine workloads.
Google Cloud VMware Engine customers can take advantage of VMware’s industry-leading ransomware recovery-as-a-service solution to confidently and quickly recover from modern ransomware. Once the identification and validation processes have been completed, customers can restore their workloads back to their original Google Cloud VMware Engine site.
Looking Ahead
We believe that in the long run, data protection is inherently a multi-cloud use case. Businesses are increasingly thinking about how they can diversify their risk profile by establishing data protection across different clouds. As we continue to extend our data protection platform across clouds, our goal is to provide a unified, innovative, and consistent experience for our customers.
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