As cyber threats proliferate, the difference between success and failure for enterprises often comes down to the speed at which they recover from attacks. VMware Live Recovery has been designed to expediently get companies back to full functioning in the event of ransomware attacks.

VCF’s Mark Chuang talks with theCUBE about VMware Live Recovery.

“I would say the number one thing that people use it for is to help them with this IT scourge of ransomware, modern ransomware, where the old ways of trying to recover just didn’t work,” said Mark Chuang (pictured), head of product marketing for VMware Cloud Foundation at Broadcom Inc. “For us, leveraging all the assets that we’ve got across the VMware portfolio and bringing together … it’s a very unique offering specifically designed for ransomware recovery.”

Chuang spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante and Rob Strechay at VMware Explore, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how VMware Live Recovery meets the resiliency needs of today’s businesses. (* Disclosure below.)

VMware Live Recovery: Building on evolved strategies for modern threats

Modern ransomware has moved past data scanning and file signatures. VMware Live Recovery incorporates advanced behavioral analysis and an isolated recovery environment to ensure safe recovery without risking reinfection, according to Chuang.

“You’ve got to have this isolated recovery environment in which you slowly test recovery points in order to gain confidence that this is safe to deploy, whereas otherwise you’re just going to reinfect production,” he said. “And finally, we leverage our virtual networking technology with NSX to make this ability to change the network isolation in an automated fashion … we brought all that together.”

VMware Live Recovery is not merely a standalone product; it’s an integral part of the VMware Cloud Foundation vision. The solution supports workloads across different environments, whether on-premises or in the cloud. This flexibility is crucial for businesses looking to protect their data and applications, regardless of where they are hosted, according to Chuang.

“First of all, we’re going to help protect any of those VMware-based workloads,” he said. “The second one is this continued theme around taking the broad set of assets that VMware has got and deeply integrating it so that there’s even more value. One of the things that we very recently delivered was integration with vSAN so that when you’re doing the failback … our calculations are the failback can accelerate by up to 16x because you’re using that vSAN local snapshot.”

In the past, disaster recovery and cybersecurity were often seen as separate domains. Today, these two areas are increasingly becoming intertwined, especially in the post-COVID era. Data protection and backup are now considered fundamental components of cybersecurity, and VMware Live Recovery is designed to bridge this gap, according to Chuang.

“In the workflows, we were very cognizant of the fact that they’ve got to work with the security persona,” he said. “We wanted the workflows that were designed to improve collaboration between these two personas, not make it more difficult for them to do their jobs.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of VMware Explore: 

(* Disclosure: VMware by Broadcom sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither VMware nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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