VMWare Offers Live Recovery to Cloud Participants
The solution offers disaster and ransomware recovery for its Cloud Foundation environs
As part of a stronger and deeper integration within Broadcom and its spate of recent business acquisitions VMWare will now make available its Live Recovery toolkit for disaster and ransomware recovery to all the Cloud Foundation environments. The solution uses Carbon Black for ransomware detection and recovery capabilities.
This decision has been prompted by demands of increased cybersecurity in the wake of sophisticated attacks via file-less malware and long dwell periods that makes re-infection a major risk during recovery operations. The use of Carbon Black, a company acquired by VMWare back in 2019 for $2.1 billion, in the solution indicates Broadcom’s integration focus.
According to a report published by SDxCentral, the recent move also aims to address other challenges such as manual integration and testing of multiple point products in recoveries like on-premises backups and cloud storage, reliance on manual ransomware recovery runbooks and the need to juggle multiple management consoles and licensing requirements over on-premises and cloud for different solutions.
The VMware Live Recovery boasts of capabilities built around Carbon Black solutions that revolves around ransomware detection and recovery capabilities. Following VMWare’s acquisition by Broadcom, Carbon Black operates as an autonomous business unit with collaboration with VMware for solutioning.
What does VMware Live Recovery offer?
Carbon Black’s next-gen antivirus technology boasts of behavioral analysis for fileless malware identification and containment besides a double-layer protection strategy that uses a suite of antivirus products that runs live in production while continuously performing regular backups.
The isolated recovery environment created by VMware’s public cloud capacity allows the creation of a quarantined and controlled space for workload validation with customers having the ability to power up the backup at the restore point itself. Carbon Black sensors in this environment can be placed into virtual machines automatically for observation.
A virtual machine network isolation for each workload during the validation process prevents lateral movement and reinfection of the production site. Besides data recovery, the solution also boasts of customizable recovery point objectives of one minute and availability of vSphere Replication and an extension of on-premises disaster recovery to the public cloud paired with full-featured cyber recovery.
The key to VMware’s offering is the unified management as traditionally companies would stitch multiple products together as part of cyber recovery. The Live Recovery of VMWare simply unifies some critical capabilities into a single solution with two underlying technologies – Live Cyber Recovery and Live Site Recovery.
The idea is quite obviously to provide unified protection for ransomware recovery use cases and traditional disaster recovery use cases. VMware provides such protection for workloads running both on-premises and over public cloud with a unified management experience. It offers a central management interface where IT heads can view and manage deployment of protected workloads across use cases and multiple regions.
