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Introduction
- This is a sponsor session by VMware (VH) software, where Sam Nichols (Senior Director) and Michael Cade (CTO) will discuss building resilient applications and environments.
- VH software has evolved beyond just being a backup company, and now supports over 150 types of platforms and workloads.
- The session will focus on the notion of resilience - the ability of a system, application, or infrastructure to withstand and recover from failures.
Resilience Challenges
- Organizations are often doing the right things, like building multi-cluster applications and ensuring high availability, but fall short when it comes to the public cloud, such as IaaS and Kubernetes.
- Relying solely on snapshots is not enough, as they do not replace the need for true backups.
- The speakers share a recent example of an Australian superannuation fund that was able to recover from a cloud provider's administrative error due to having a true backup stored outside the cloud platform.
Shared Responsibility in the Cloud
- When moving to the public cloud, there is a common misconception that the cloud provider takes over all responsibility for data protection and security.
- In reality, the customer is always responsible for securing and managing their data, even in the cloud.
- The shared responsibility model varies depending on the level of cloud service (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) being utilized.
Best Practices for Resilience
- The 3-2-1 Rule: Maintain three copies of data, on two different media types, with one copy stored offsite.
- Logical Air Gap: Store backups in a dedicated account separate from the production environment, with least-privilege access.
- Immutability: Ensure backups are stored in an immutable format to prevent tampering or encryption by ransomware.
- Encryption: Encrypt data to protect against exfiltration and leakage of sensitive information.
Demonstrations
- On-premises to EC2 Migration: Demonstrates how to migrate a virtual machine from an on-premises environment to an EC2 instance, including protecting the migrated workload with VH Backup for AWS.
- RDS Recovery: Shows how to recover an RDS database that has been compromised, using a backup stored in an S3 bucket.
- Kubernetes Workload Recovery: Showcases how VH Casten can protect a WordPress application running on a Kubernetes cluster, with the ability to quickly restore the application from a backup.
VH Software Capabilities
- VH software provides comprehensive data protection and resilience across a wide range of platforms, including EC2, VMware, Kubernetes, databases, and more.
- The platform offers features such as data portability, security components (e.g., zero trust, immutability), and data intelligence (e.g., anomaly detection, malware scanning).
Conclusion
- The speakers emphasize that this session was not a sales pitch, but rather an opportunity to share best practices that can be implemented regardless of the tools or platforms being used.
- They encourage the audience to reach out if they have any questions and thank them for attending.