Oh, and Zerto is still by far the best DR solution for (semi) automated failover. There is a reason Veeam has been trying to copy them for years.

They shut down because they were required to by Federal regulators.

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You don’t understand cloud. This might help: https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/cloud-computing/cloud-vs-virtualization

And the Spiceworks report said 77% of all on-prem workloads were virtualized and that 92% of businesses are using virtualization. If we add on public cloud workloads it’s becomes more than 90% of all…

As I said earlier, most (not 100%) of the world is virtualized. I posted the link yesterday. ~80% of all workloads are virtualized and this includes small business like your dentists office still running an SBS server.

LOLing at an AWS cert.

I literally just finished quoting Zerto Enterprise for a small 80VM environment this morning. I’m surprised you could spell RPO.

We’re not consultants, we a VAR. We sell and implement the infrastructure because in house usually don’t have the skill set to do much more than patching and updates.

Thats not how it works. Sorry, you are out of your depth.

Because paying people to stay home and do nothing has an extremely negative effect on the economy.

I’m not against social assistance, but it should be very regionally based and only provide for basic sustenance and basic housing. It should always pay significantly more to go to work than it does to stay home.

But it didn’t just handle the billing. Billing is a function of the accounting module of an ERP. Go learn what an ERP is and then tell me they could just keep operating the business and bill manually with their entire ERP crypto’d.

Instead of UBI, how about free post secondary, whether university or trade schools?

Instead of paying people a UBI to stay home and just be consumers, pay for them to gain a skillset that will keep them employed and productive.

You seem to be confused between virtualization and cloud. I said virtualized.

This is typical of IT/IS guys....you “think” you have done a good job and your firewall rules, network segmentations, NAC, etc. are going to be impervious. Until they aren’t. Any IT/IS resource who says their systems are secure against any attack should be immediately fired because they do not know wat they are…

We supply all of the server/storage hardware for a western Canadian provincial healthcare system. So yes, I have been close to public sector infrastructure. Currently they are running a mix of 3Par and Primera. 99% of all work loads are virtualized.

Do you really believe your situation is representative of the IT…

If a network connection exists, it can be exploited. Regardless of how it’s been firewalled. I have a quote for a dozen CP 1570R’s for a gas plant in Western Canada in front of me. We do this quite a bit.

Friend, I am familiar with IT-OT segmentation. It does not mean no network connection exists between the two.

Is your storage attached to the network? Would any CIO just let it run while a ransomware attack was underway and several storage targets had already been encrypted?

Again, I don’t argue that the odd application may still be on bare metal but as a percentage of an orgs total number of servers, how many are not virtualized (or these days, containerized) vs bare metal? It’s usually just a very small number of very old, unsupported applications.

No one suggested they were on the same storage platform. But they would absolutely have network connections between them so to prevent the spread of malware they would both have to be shut down.

You don’t understand how infrastructure works.

The SCADA networks that run the PLC’s that control the physical pipelines were not attacked but they have dependencies on the applications that run on the compute infrastructure that was attacked. You cant run the SCADA network without the compute environment.