Organisations must restore business operations in minutes or seconds to manage soaring downtime costs. Traditional backup methods often fail or corrupt data, requiring weeks to repair. John Dewar, General Manager of Enterprise Technology Solutions at NEC XON, described the shift in priorities. “The old question was ‘Do we have a backup?’, and the new business question is ‘How quickly can we get back to normal?'” Dewar stated during a webinar on business resilience hosted by NEC XON, HPE, and Cohesity in partnership with ITWeb.
Collaboration for resilience
Dewar highlighted the partnership between NEC XON, Cohesity, and HPE Zerto. The collaboration combines complementary technologies and expertise to improve resilience. Zerto restores operations quickly and keeps important services available. Cohesity keeps business data safe and protects trusted data. NEC XON integrates these systems to reduce disruption and increase confidence.
Ben Preston, Principal Solutions Architect – Alliances at Cohesity, explained the data cloud’s role. Preston outlined a five-step model for cyber resilience. The first step involves protecting all data and providing visibility. This allows organisations to identify, govern, and secure data while reducing risk and costs. Furthermore, the Cohesity data cloud ensures immutability, multi-factor authentication, separation of duties, role-based access control, and a 3-2-1-1 data protection strategy, which enables faster and more secure recovery, audit readiness, and zero trust alignment.
Ensuring recoverability and threat detection
Cohesity and Zerto will host roundtable events to showcase their combined ability to deliver continuous data protection and help prevent operational downtime. Their Beyond Backup and Recovery roundtables will be held in Johannesburg on 29 September and Cape Town on 1 October. For more information, visit: https://events.cohesity.com/beyond-backup-and-recovery-johannesburg?gz=none or https://events.cohesity.com/beyond-backup-and-recovery-cape-town?gz=none. These events will provide organisations with the opportunity to learn more about the importance of business resilience and how to achieve it through the combination of Cohesity and Zerto’s technologies.