VMware, now part of Broadcom, is pleased to announce the general availability of VMware Live Recovery, an innovative solution that offers unprecedented cyber and data resilience for VMware Cloud Foundation environments. VMware Live Recovery is the industry’s first solution that combines enterprise-level disaster recovery with specific cyber recovery in a single management experience across all clouds.
Organizations are more vulnerable than ever to ransomware attacks and infrastructure disruptions. A staggering 66% reported a successful ransomware attack in 2023, with 76% having their data encrypted. Furthermore, a recent study on data center outages revealed that even single-day events often cost an average of $100,000, with many exceeding a million dollars, depending on the size of the data center.
Most organizations rely on backup solutions with snapshot immutability or legacy disaster recovery orchestration tools to address a wide range of threats. However, 70% of ransomware attacks are fileless in nature, making them undetectable through traditional file scanning methods and difficult to recover from. This highlights a clear gap in available market solutions claiming expertise in cyber recovery and disaster recovery but lacking specific solutions for these two distinct use cases.
To enable reliable and secure cyber recovery, several key components are needed. Firstly, next-generation antivirus with behavioral analysis to identify and effectively contain fileless malware at restore points. Secondly, an isolated recovery environment, given the unpredictable nature of cyber threats, workload validation must be done within the boundaries of a quarantined and controlled environment to prevent reinfection during the recovery process. Lastly, network isolation of virtual machines, workloads must be isolated from each other during validation in the isolated recovery environment to prevent lateral movement and re-infection of the production site.
Until now, organizations had no choice but to combine multiple products to access the wide range of capabilities needed to address both modern cyber recovery and enterprise-level disaster recovery. VMware Live Recovery meets this business need.
VMware Live Recovery uniquely enables a cyber-resilient and data-resilient private cloud. Along with the infrastructure hardening that comes standard with VMware Cloud Foundation and advanced security capabilities to prevent and contain cyber threats, VMware Live Recovery is a critical last line of defense to deliver secure and accelerated recovery.
VMware Live Recovery includes two key underlying technologies: VMware Live Cyber Recovery (formerly VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery + VMware Ransomware Recovery) and VMware Live Site Recovery (formerly VMware Site Recovery Manager). It is designed to address the full range of cyber and data recovery needs, with customizable RPOs up to 1 minute when used with vSphere replication, elastic scaling of recovery infrastructure resources, and flexible topologies across facilities and the cloud.
VMware Live Recovery has several unique advantages. It offers unified protection through a new centralized management interface that allows organizations to manage the full range of cyber and data recovery needs in private and public clouds. Additionally, it provides secure cyber recovery that integrates live behavioral analysis of powered-on workloads in a cloud-based isolated recovery environment, guided selection of restore points, and network isolation of virtual machines with a single click in a step-by-step guided recovery workflow. Lastly, it simplifies consumption with a single subscription that unlocks the full range of cyber and disaster recovery capabilities with flexible licensing for ransomware recovery and disaster recovery use cases, as well as private and public cloud scenarios.
VMware by Broadcom has a unique position in the market to seamlessly enable a cyber-resilient and data-resilient private cloud. VMware Cloud Foundation offers an end-to-end technological stack that spans from ready-to-use infrastructure hardening, advanced security to prevent, identify, and contain threats, and unified recovery to reduce the impact of undesirable (and often irreversible) consequences of downtime, data loss, and business disruption.
via: Blog vmware