VMware Live Recovery General Availability Announced

VMware has announced the general availability of VMware Live Recovery, a new solution designed for cyber and data resilience in VMware Cloud Foundation environments. This release marks the first integration of high-grade disaster recovery with specialized cyber recovery and a consistent management platform across various clouds.

Ransomware continues to dominate security news. Attacks and system outages pose significant risks to organizations, most of which have experienced such incidents. These events typically incur substantial costs, which escalate with the size of the data center affected.

Traditional disaster recovery methods, like immutable snapshots and conventional tools, fall short against modern threats, especially fileless ransomware, which evades standard file scans. This highlights a market deficiency in current cyber recovery and disaster recovery offerings.

Key Features of VMware Live Recovery

VMware Live Recovery delivers a robust private cloud solution with enhanced security to combat and limit cyber threats. It incorporates:

Next-Generation Antivirus and Behavioral Analysis: To detect and manage fileless malware.
Isolated Recovery Environment: A secure area to validate workloads and prevent reinfection.
VM Network Isolation: To stop lateral threat movement during recovery.

Previously, various products had to be combined to achieve a comprehensive cyber and disaster recovery strategy. VMware Live Recovery provides a unified solution.

Advantages Include:

Unified Protection: Centralized management for global workload deployment monitoring.
Secure Cyber Recovery: Features like live behavioral analysis, guided restore, and VM isolation enable streamlined recovery processes.
Simplified Subscription Model: A single subscription offers flexible licensing across various recovery scenarios and cloud environments.

Simplified Management Through Centralization

A key attribute of VMware Live Recovery is its streamlined management approach, which features a central hub for comprehensive visibility into deployments. This centralized visibility gives administrators a global perspective of protected virtual machines (VMs) and allocated resources filtered by region and specific use cases. Furthermore, the platform simplifies decision-making with its Quick Planner tool, guiding users through the deployment options to ensure efficient and effective recovery strategies. By centralizing these operational aspects, VMware Live Recovery significantly reduces the complexity of managing disparate recovery systems, allowing for a more cohesive and controlled approach to cyber resilience.

Product Availability and Benefits

VMware Live Recovery builds upon VMware Live CyberRecovery and VMware Live Site Recovery’s established strengths. It boasts new functionalities, like customizable RPOs and expanded disaster recovery capabilities, extending from on-premises to the public cloud. Broadcom, VMware’s parent company, positions this product for secure, resilient private cloud operations, complementing VMware Cloud Foundation’s native security and recovery features.

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