As a CSP, we answer this question daily.  And we always answer the question with the question: 

“What do you want to accomplish with your Backup Product and Disaster Recovery plan?” 

For this article, we are not going to list all the Backup/DR products in the market today with an evaluation for each one.  There isn’t a need to do that as we have done our due diligence through research and testing and have narrowed the field to 4 products that offer secure, reliable recovery at very reasonable price points. 

The Village of Pinecrest is an affluent suburban municipality home to approximately 19,000 residents located south of the beautiful Downtown Miami. So with “Crippling ransomware attacks targeting US cities on the rise”, the Village of Pinecrest thought it was time for reliable ransomware protection.

First and foremost, when it comes to backups and disaster recovery– we always recommend the 3-2-1 rule.  Whatever may happen: ransomware, disaster, equipment craps out, etc. – a copy of company data should be off site.  This means either building or renting a duplicate datacenter at a different location, OR utilizing the cloud. 

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Assigning more vCPU’s to a VM may not necessarily increase CPU performance of a VM.   Here are some best practice recommendations.

• Start with one vCPU per VM and increase as needed.
• Do not assign more vCPUs than needed to a VM as this can unnecessarily limit resource availability for other VMs and increase CPU Ready wait time.
• Performance degradation may occur on multiprocessor VMs in which the number of vCPUs was greater than the number of vCPUs in a NUMA node. Generally, try to keep multiprocessor VMs sized so that they fit within a NUMA node. In PvDC this would be (1, 2, 4, 6, and up o 8vCPU).

One of the most important assets to your company is your intellectual property, your data.

Often, it is taken for granted until it is gone: A Ransomware Strike.
How did this happen? Often ransomware infects your computer when you open an attachment in a dubious email or click a suspicious link on the web. Other forms need no human interaction and simply probe vulnerabilities on your perimeter network until they find a way in.