With over 35 years of pioneering experience in sustainable solar manufacturing, the customer’s legacy is one of environmental responsibility and forward-thinking innovation. This rich history has earned the company multiple prestigious awards, cementing its position as a leader in cutting-edge solar technology.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wide range of services and features that empower customers to build resilient architectures, ensuring high availability, scalability and reliability. Resilience can be achieved through various mechanisms, such as redundant infrastructure, fault-tolerant designs, automated backups, and disaster recovery strategies. With AWS’s global infrastructure and a trusted partner like Cloud Kinetics, customers can build resilient architectures that minimize downtime and mitigate risks.

Why resilience matters

Minimize downtime: Resilient architectures on AWS help organizations minimize downtime during planned maintenance, natural disasters, or unforeseen events, ensuring uninterrupted business operations and customer satisfaction.

Enhance customer trust: Resilience builds trust among customers and stakeholders by demonstrating a commitment to high availability and reliable services. Customers are more likely to engage with businesses that can consistently deliver their products or services.

Mitigate financial loss: Downtime and service disruptions can lead to significant financial losses, including lost revenue, missed opportunities, and damage to the brand reputation. Resilience measures on AWS help mitigate these risks and protect the business’s bottom line.

Benefits of resilience on AWS

High availability: Resilient architectures enable customers to achieve high availability by distributing their applications across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) and using load balancing and auto-scaling capabilities. This ensures that even if one AZ or component fails, the application remains accessible and responsive.

Scalability: Resilience allows applications to scale seamlessly based on demand. AWS provides auto-scaling features that automatically adjust resources to accommodate changes in workload, ensuring optimal performance during peak periods while minimizing costs during low-demand periods.

Disaster recovery: AWS offers disaster recovery solutions that enable customers to replicate their data and applications across different regions, ensuring business continuity in the event of a natural disaster or major outage.

Why choose Cloud Kinetics for resilience solutions

Extensive experience: When it comes to resilience on AWS, choosing a partner with the right expertise and experience is crucial. Cloud Kinetics has extensive experience and a proven track record in designing, implementing and managing resilient solutions on AWS. Our team of experts has worked on numerous projects, helping customers build robust and highly available systems.

Industry best practices: We follow industry best practices and AWS Well-Architected Framework principles to ensure that our customers’ architectures are resilient, efficient, secure and cost-optimized.

Automated infrastructure management: We leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to automate the provisioning and management of resources. This minimizes manual errors, enables rapid recovery and facilitates the deployment of infrastructure components in a consistent and reproducible manner.

Proactive monitoring: We employ proactive monitoring to identify and respond to potential failures or performance issues. This approach helps us detect and address problems before they impact the customer’s business.

Continuous improvement: We are committed to continuously improving our customers’ resilience by staying up to date with the latest AWS services and features. This allows us to recommend and implement new solutions that enhance resilience and maximize the benefits of AWS.

By partnering with us, customers can leverage our expertise and best practices to build resilient architectures on AWS, ensuring their applications and systems can withstand disruptions and deliver consistent performance.

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“Vertrax was created by truckers, for truckers,” the company proudly states. “We took our insights from across the industry and developed products that help fleets deliver smart and swift results.” Its specialty: supply chain management solutions for the bulk oil and gas distribution market, akin to an economy’s blood circulation.

“Our solutions drive optimization and never-seen-before visibility, value-added analytics, and insight,” says Rob Ljunggren, Vertrax’s Head of IT. “With built-in Amazon Web Services (AWS) integration, Vertrax stands out against the competition in terms of breadth of solution and native cloud benefits.”

The firm used Veeam to back up its core data on Microsoft 365. Until a ransomware attack threatened to ground everything to an abrupt halt. “The hackers not only encrypted our files on OneDrive, but they also corrupted our backups which were on-prem,” Rob says. “We were placed in an impossible situation.”

The complication? Vertrax’ contract with a data center to manage backups didn’t include support, stifling his staff’s ability to make changes or retrieve backups. Moreover, different Veeam consoles were operated independently, so Rob’s team had little visibility of what was being backed up. And with Covid-19, staff were forced to work remotely, which required additional layers of data security.

The status quo couldn’t continue; we had to find a solution – fast. We went through the options and zeroed in on Druva. It offered simple and reliable data protection and management-as-a-service. For implementation, we selected Cloud Kinetics, who had the experience and expertise to get us back on track. Rob Ljunggren, Head of IT, Vertrax 

Sunnyvale, California-headquartered Druva enables cyber, data and operational resilience with its Data Resiliency Cloud, the industry’s first SaaS solution. It allows enterprises to simplify data protection, streamline governance, and gain visibility and insights into their data on the cloud. Druva pioneered a SaaS-based approach to eliminate complex infrastructure and related management costs.

CK set up a team to help Vertrax get its siloed data centralized, its multiple backups organized, and its numerous management consoles focused on a single pane of glass. “With Veeam, it took us 30 minutes to restore a file; Druva helped us do this in three minutes,” Rob said. “My team had previously no insight into what was being backed up. Now we have everything in one management console. I even get automated email updates, so I always know where we stand.”

We helped Vertrax implement Druva across the enterprise with a single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, role-based access, and controls to guard against cyberattacks. The result: 10x faster data restoration compared to Veeam, 4x reduction in management time, and 50% cost savings compared to Veeam. Wen Chi Li, CTO, Cloud Kinetics

Ransomware is taking a toll on companies globally. The threat landscape is a moving target – and so are the sums demanded. The average ransom demand in 2021 is US$5.3 million, up 518% from an average of US$847,000 in 2020, according to data collated by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.

According to a recent study by ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association), the Asia-Pacific region is a hotspot for ransomware attacks. In its State of Cybersecurity 2021 report, ISACA states that 33% of IT leaders in Singapore and Malaysia expect their organization to experience a cyberattack in 2022.

Almost 30% of respondents indicated that their enterprises were getting hit more often than a year ago. ISACA provides security training and advisory services. In late 2020, it surveyed 3,659 executives, including 154 from Malaysia and Singapore, 65% of which represent organizations with more than 1,500 employees. The key reasons: organizations in Asia take 1.7 times longer than the global average to detect a breach; 70% of organizations lack a good understanding of their cyber posture, and investments in cybersecurity are 47% lower than in North America.

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With more businesses starting their digitalisation journey by moving to the cloud, cloud-powered digital data protection solutions, such as Druva, are gaining traction for their specialised features in streamlining data protection processes for enterprises and their ability to safeguard digital assets in the cloud.

The Druva Platform

Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the most widely adopted cloud platform in the world, Druva is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that provides data protection solutions across data centres, cloud applications and endpoints through swift recovery and backup.

Druva’s patented cloud architecture harnesses the power of AWS’s public cloud to form a streamlined system that reduces the complexity and costs of data protection services for businesses, ensures compliance for borderless businesses and improves cyber resiliency while providing critical insights that can better enable business continuity. These features are essential to tackle today’s common, yet impactful, cyber issues.

Today’s top cyber issues

Major cyber concerns in this digital age include threats of malware (malicious software), data losses from natural disasters and potential data compliance breaches. These concerns significantly affect the security levels of data, eventually impacting the effectiveness of business continuity itself.

Data loss typically arises from both malware attacks and natural disasters. By using malware, cyber-criminals can hack into an operation’s systems, encrypt the files and then demand a ransom in exchange for a decryption key. From notable examples such as the US$50 million Acer ransomware attack and the Microsoft Exchange server hack that affected 30,000 organisations, it is apparent that the threat of malware is highly dangerous.

With natural disasters, the associated risks of power outages and hardware failures are leading causes of data loss, especially for businesses that choose to maintain on-premises servers for the majority of their data. From these ‘acts of God’, the costs of such risks were exemplified when a tornado destroyed the headquarters of Western Express in 2020, wiping out the company’s crucial data centre hosting systems. Even though data systems were backed up the night before, the company still lost 30 minutes’ worth of data – which could not only be detrimental but disastrous, depending on the classified level of the lost data.

While the events above are unexpected in nature, data compliance issues are dependent on established regulations already in place. As businesses migrate to the cloud and become borderless, they often face challenges to ensure that their data and operations remain locally compliant, which can then incur legal liabilities.

If these compliance regulations are not adhered to, it may result in costly fines for businesses, such as the €35.3 million fine incurred imposed on H&M for breaching the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules in 2020. Therefore, from the heavy costs illustrated, it is crucial for businesses to ensure their data’s protection and backup through tools like Druva.

How Druva addresses today’s cyber issues

Druva, a compliance-certified platform, is built with centralised and automated features that provide a streamlined process for data extraction during backup and recovery procedures. The platform’s key features include hybrid cloud solutions, disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) and data compliance adherence.

The platform ensures data protection as its direct-to-cloud backup feature does not require the implementation of additional hardware infrastructure. During unexpected crises such as natural disasters, businesses having most of their infrastructure on-site can use Druva as a “turnkey” solution to safeguard their data and mitigate disruptions caused by hardware damage and power outages.

Equipped with DRaaS capabilities, Druva minimises the impact of data loss because the centralised data protection platform is securely managed in AWS, whether the data is at rest or in transit. As a certified AWS Solution Architect, Cloud Kinetics has employed Druva as part of a larger solution to help our client, Enersys, orchestrate and generate a disaster recovery and effective business continuity plan (BCP) for their on-premises data across its multiple data centres.

With this solution, Druva can recover applications for the business within 15 minutes to an hour with a single click in the event of a disaster or cyber-attack, greatly minimising disruption and downtime. The platform also instils proactive support through consistent data verification and feedback cycles that ensure data backup and restoration. If corporate data is ever encrypted and held ransom by a malicious party, the business can quickly retrieve an up-to-date backup of their data instead of being forced to pay the ransom (often without any real guarantees) and experiencing service disruptions.

Druva also has a compliance monitoring solution that features a single, fully automated dashboard that constantly monitors company data with prebuilt or customised compliance templates. It can proactively alert users to key regulations or report violations on a 24/7 basis, defensibly delete sensitive data in the cloud backup or source files in response to potential violations of key compliance standards. It can even simplify endpoint protection governance for the remote workforce. Altogether, this dashboard feature significantly streamlines the compliance process, giving both businesses and their users greater peace of mind.

Moving forward with Druva

Cloud migration does not make data entirely immune to external threats and nor will it completely address all compliance matters. Hence, businesses should leave nothing to chance. Every point of vulnerability runs the risk of exploitation, making data protection and backup solutions like Druva the new business necessity.

As a trusted AWS partner and with our experience with Druva, we can ensure that businesses are well-prepared to handle modern digital threats and emerge more resilient – both today and in the future.

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Cloud managed services are often subscription-based, which makes them scalable and cost-efficient compared to in-house management. They cover everything from migration and security to backup and disaster recovery and are provisioned by external cloud managed services providers (MSPs), which provide end-to-end solution management. This creates a more robust IT infrastructure that is constantly up-to-date and enables businesses to free up critical resources for use in other areas.

Optimize your cloud-based business with managed services

Cloud migration

Shifting the whole IT infrastructure of a business to the cloud can be a daunting prospect, especially for first-time cloud adopters and for companies whose resources are spread across multiple locations. This is where an experienced cloud MSP can be a significant asset as they can ensure that everything is correctly migrated and minimize operational downtime.

One of our clients, a leading e-portal company, needed to migrate to the cloud to upgrade their resources and improve network performance but faced potential compliance issues due to the geographical spread of their resources. Cloud Kinetics was able to use the ARMS Platform Plan and the Arcus automated migration toolkit to simplify the migration process and make it more efficient, which resulted in an error-free resource migration with minimal downtime.

Cloud consulting

While there are many ways that the cloud can help a business resolve its pain points, it is up to the business to identify those needs and implement the right solutions.

Cloud MSPs can provide assessments by and consultations with cloud experts top in point core business needs and match them to the appropriate cloud services based on resources and budget. They can also help businesses develop a cloud strategy and roadmap for long-term implementation, ensuring that companies continue to optimize their cloud in the years to come.

Cloud security

The sheer volume of digital resources and mission-critical assets now on the cloud means that cloud security must be of paramount importance to businesses.

Instead of hiring teams for round-the-clock security monitoring, companies can outsource their cloud and data security to MSPs. With experts covering continuous monitoring, in-depth security analyses and rapid response full-time, they can eliminate single points of failure within the cloud environment and quickly mitigate any potential threats at a fraction of the cost of creating a full in-house team.

DevOps solutions

A portmanteau of Development (Dev) & IT Operations (Ops), DevOps is an amalgamation of tools and practices to elevate a business’s efficiency – and DevOps adoption is accelerated by the cloud.

Cloud MSPs can support organizations in DevOps adoption by facilitating integration, such as by installing a shared data drive for the business within a cloud network. This creates a highly collaborative operational environment with reduced communication lag time in communication and more streamlined operations.

Cloud disaster recovery

Businesses can no longer afford to be unprepared for any major IT downtime or data loss arising from unexpected disasters. Cloud services such as cloud disaster recovery can minimize the impact of any unforeseen events and prevent significant fallout.

MSPs provide disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) for the cloud, which involves backing up and replicating a business’ systems and data to a private or public cloud. This creates a failsafe process and helps to ensure business continuity if the worst happens, which can save businesses millions in lost revenue and protect their reputation.

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Using AWS Backup, we provide a fully managed, policy-based backup solution, simplifying your backup management, enabling our customers to meet their business and regulatory backup compliance requirements. CK offers expertise in solutions that configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for AWS resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, etc, and we leverage AWS S3 Glacier for durable and cost effective long term data backup. If your organization is interested in leveraging AWS to help manage the exponential volume, increasing cost and expanding complexity of data storage, we are here to help.

DATA STORAGE Management Framework:

Our team of Certified Cloud and Storage industry leading solutions architects, consultants and engineer staffs work closely with AWS and other data protection solution vendors (ie. NetApp, Cohesity, CommVault, Veeam, N2WS, Druva, MSP360) to provide best of breed end to end backup, DR and any case of data protection solutions to our customers and partners.

Building on the success of our hybrid cloud and data storage offering in the past 5 years, Cloud Kinetics now has established a data experienced storage practices to serve our customer around data storage request.

Data Storage Management Lifecycle

OFFERING:

Data Protection as a Service

VERITAS+AWS VTL+S3: Integrate no. Virtualization backup software with AWS VTL to backup customer on-premise data to AWS S3

NetApp AltaVault + S3: NetApp Altavault is able to integrate with most existing backup solution to enable it to move backup data AWS S3 and Glader

CloudBerry + S3: CloudBerry is cost effective backup and DR Solution to AWS for windows and virtualized environment

N2WS + S3: Veeam N2WS Solution is AWS EC2 native backup to S3 Solution

Disaster Recovery as a Service: We utilize CloudEndure to offer customer Draas to AWS for any customer environment- physical, Hyper-v, VMware and openstack

Hybride Backup as a service (VMC): Integrate with VMC on AWS and Cloud Storage to offer Hybride on AWS backup Solution

Storage as a Service: Provide different tier to meet storage I/O performance requirements.

Veeam Backup as a Service: provide Veeam managed as a services to simplify customer backup operation

Software as a Service

Cloud Volume ONTAP for AWS: A Cloud Storage Management solution that delivers secure proven data management service for AWS, Provide protection, Visibility and control for your cloud based workload.

Disaster Recovery as a Service: Backup and replicate VM to AWS Druva Saas services with one click DR recovery Function

Archival as a service: Tiering 7 Years archival data to long term retention purpose

Backup as a services: Enterprise Scale on an open platform integrate with your existing backup software and public or private cloud storage provider of your choice

Assessment: This assessment is ideal for large enterprise multi-vendor environments. We can provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the performance, configuration, and capacity of your entire heterogeneous infrastructure.

Consulting: Rely on professional services for turnkey processes to elimination readblock and enable faster solution adoption.

Migration: smooth Your transformation with proven Methodologies and best practices to reduce risk and impact to your business

Managed Services: Trust Cloud Kinetics seasoned expertise to manage support and optimization your on-premises and Hybrid-Cloud workloads so You can deliver great business value.

Success Stories:

HiLife: Building smarter living with Cloud Kinetics and AWS
Digiworld accelerates business growth with AWS and Cloud Kinetics

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The webinar covered topics ranging from the basics of business continuity planning, AWS solutions for WFH and BCP followed by a few case studies where Cloud Kinetics had designed and implemented AWS-based solutions for BCP and DR. AWS solutions such as Workspaces, AppStream, Networking (VPN), Security (AD Connectors) etc were also shared.

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