Examine the complexities of detecting ransomware and the potential rocky road to recover after it has infected a system environment. This book addresses the topic of Disaster and Ransomware Recovery in the VMware Cloud.

You'll start by examining the challenge of implementing a robust disaster recovery solution, and how to address it through a Disaster Recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) approach. The book then introduces the basics of the VMware Live Cyber Recovery solution and how it is fully integrated with VMware Cloud on AWS to offer an easy-to-use SaaS-based solution with a pay-as-you-go model for a faster recovery at a very low TCO. It also provides a technical deep dive into VMware Live Cyber Recovery architecture by detailing the features and capabilities of the solution including the concepts of Protected Sites, Protection Groups, Disaster Recovery Plans, and Failover testing.

In subsequent chapters, you'll review in depth the Ransomware recovery case where you will learn more on the impact of Ransomware on IT organizations and how to address ransomware recovery. Finally, you'll take a deep dive into the technical architecture and features of the VMware Live Cyber Recovery Ransomware recovery capabilities, and how it can address ransomware threats with a very flexible, on-demand and easy-to-use SaaS delivery model with cloud economics. Mastering VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Ransomware Resilience provides you with the best practices on how to recover from ransomware.

What You'll Learn

• Review the different concepts of VMware Live Cyber Recovery
• Understand the complexity of ransomware attacks and how it can impact your business.
• Recover data after a ransomware attack
• Implement a ransomware recovery solution.

Who This Book Is For

IT managers, IT architects, Cloud architects, network engineers, security officers, backup administrators, and infrastructure managers

About the Author

Christophe Lombard is an IT Architect with 26 years of experience in designing and delivering complex solutions in both consultative and technical leadership with a specific focus on Cloud and IT Transformation. He has worked within large organizations like NEC, CSC, EMC, DELL, and more recently in a startup called Cloudreach. He has helped dozens of IT professionals and organizations achieve their business objectives through business and consultative engagements. During his career, he has served as a Network engineer, project manager, consultant and cloud architect.

He started developing his knowledge in VMware in 2005 and his cloud expertise in 2015. He is passionate about the development of innovation in companies using new technologies: cloud, IaaS, infrastructure as code, microservices, and big data. His two areas of expertise opened a door for him at VMware in 2020 during the pandemic.

As a Lead Cloud Solution Architect, Christophe helpsdrive VMware Cloud on AWS and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery products adoption with key customers. He loves to learn, to enable and to educate people including customers, partners, and colleagues on all the cloud technologies he is focused on.

Christophe holds an AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate certification and has following VMware certifications: VMware Cloud (VCP-VMC) 2022, VCP & VCAP DCV, VCP & VCAP - Design NV 2021, and is vExpert 2021/2022/2023. Christophe also promotes and shares his knowledge on VMware technology and cloud solutions on his blog: vminded.com.

In his spare time, he enjoys working on his creative pursuits such as photography. Find Christophe at linkedin.com/in/lombardchristophe

Book Information
ISBN 9798868808289
Author Christophe Lombard
Format Paperback
Page Count 193
Imprint APress
Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG