“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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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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Effective enterprise operations can help organizations increase IT efficiency, reliability and improve customer experience. We partner with the best Enterprise Applications Platforms so that you can focus on your business priorities.

• Google Workspaces

Today’s new normal demands quality collaboration and productivity tools so that your team can work efficiently. Google Workspace gives you everything that you need to get anything done, in one place.

• ServiceNow

Modernize your operations to optimize productivity, cost, and resilience with a single platform for IT. ServiceNow allows your team to deliver services to internal and external customers, without compromising on the quality and speed of those services

• Freshworks

Reshape customer experiences with Freshworks. Freshworks provides innovative customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to acquire, close, and keep their customers for life.

• Salesforce

Bring your customers closer to your company with Salesforce. Salesforce helps you keep track of everything about your customers and potential customers so you can build great relationships with them.

• Druva

Druva data protection across data centers, cloud applications, and endpoints. With Druva, you will be able to enforce data governance and extract more intelligence to unlock the full value of your data.

• Veeam

If you are looking for a Single Backup and Data Management Platform for Cloud, then look no further than Veeam. Veeam presents a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud and securing your data.

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