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By Mark Mazza
Here’s the DR planning problem that businesses with multiple locations run into: the math doesn’t scale. If you have one office, you need one DR solution. Straightforward. But if you have five offices, or ten, or fifteen, the traditional approach says you need DR infrastructure at every site, or at least a secondary site that mirrors the primary. That means duplicating hardware, licensing, networking, and staff time across every location.
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By Mark Mazza
Most organisations know they need disaster recovery. Far fewer know what a well-designed DR architecture actually looks like. The gap between “we have backups” and “we can recover our business in under an hour” is architectural. It’s the difference between storing copies of your data somewhere offsite and building a recovery environment that’s been pre-configured, tested, and ready to take over when your production systems fail.
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By Mark Mazza
For two decades, VMware was the default answer for virtualization. It worked, it was well supported, and the commercial terms were predictable enough that infrastructure strategy could largely ignore the underlying platform and focus on workloads. Broadcom’s acquisition ended that. Perpetual licences are gone. Product catalogues have collapsed from 168 offerings into four mandatory bundles. Per-core minimums have created fixed costs for capacity many organisations don’t use.
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By Mark Mazza
When Broadcom completed its $69 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023, most customers assumed the initial disruption would settle. Licensing models would stabilise. Partner programmes would find a new equilibrium. Pricing would normalise. Two years in, it’s clear that didn’t happen.
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By Mark Mazza
Most application migration projects fail the same way: someone picks a single strategy for the entire portfolio, then tries to force every workload into it. Lift-and-shift everything to meet a data centre exit deadline. Refactor everything because someone read a cloud-native manifesto. Retire nothing because no one wants to make the decision. AWS’s 7 Rs framework exists to prevent that.
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By Mark Mazza
Technical debt costs US enterprises an estimated $2.41 trillion per year, according to Accenture research cited by AWS. For most organisations, roughly 30% of engineering time gets absorbed by maintaining legacy systems – work that’s necessary, but produces no new business value. That’s the problem AWS has been trying to solve with AWS Transform, its agentic AI service for enterprise application modernization.
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By Mark Mazza
Opti9 recently announced it has been approved as an authorized reseller for Anthropic models through Amazon Bedrock, further strengthening its ability to deliver secure, enterprise-grade AI solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In October, AWS enabled its Solution Provider Partners to resell Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that provides access to a wide range of leading foundation models from top providers.
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By Mark Mazza
The debate over lift and shift versus refactoring is one of the most persistent in cloud migration planning. It’s also frequently framed as a binary choice when it shouldn’t be. Most organizations will do both — the question is which approach applies to which workload, and in what order. Getting this decision wrong is expensive. Over-refactoring adds months to migration timelines and cost that’s difficult to justify.
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By Mark Mazza
Cloud migrations have a reputation for running over budget and behind schedule. That reputation isn’t entirely undeserved — migrations done without structure often do. But AWS has invested heavily in programs that give businesses a faster, cheaper path to the cloud, and most organizations don’t know they exist or how to access them. The AWS Accelerator Program is one of the more practical frameworks available for SMBs and mid-market companies planning a move to AWS.
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By Mark Mazza
“We have backups” might be the most dangerous phrase in law firm IT. According to the ABA’s 2023 Legal Technology Survey, only 34% of law firms have an incident response plan – and far fewer regularly test their ability to actually recover from a disaster. Having backups and being able to recover from them are two very different things.
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By Opti9
Discover how to fortify your business's resilience with DR-Ready for Wasabi and Veeam by Opti9. Watch to learn how this seamless disaster recovery solution can be your cost-effective solution to safeguarding your data and operations. Optimize your cloud strategy today!
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By Opti9
Recent findings from the 2023 Global Ransomware Trends Report, reveal a concerning uptick: 85% of organizations experienced a cyberattack in the past year, up from 76% the previous year. Understanding the nuances of defense and recovery becomes paramount as cyber threats escalate. Join us for this essential discussion based on insights from one of the most extensive independent studies to date, encompassing 1,200 organizations from 14 different countries. All these organizations have one thing in common – they’ve braved cyberattacks.
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By Opti9
Featuring industry experts, CTOs Danny Allan from Veeam, Sagi Brody from Opti9, and cybersecurity expert Guy Mizrahi, CEO of CyPROS. Gain invaluable insights into the ever-evolving world of ransomware attacks and learn how you can fortify your Veeam installations with the cutting-edge AI-powered anomaly detection tool, Observr.
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By Opti9
In this video, we're taking a deep dive into the world of Veeam's BaaS solutions on AWS. You'll get an insider's perspective on navigating this powerful tool, optimizing your backup strategy, and ensuring seamless recovery. With Industry Leaders David Johnson and Sagi Brody! Unleash the Potential of Your AWS Environment! In this highly informative webinar, we bring you two renowned experts in AWS Marketplace: David Johnson, Head of Business Development at AWS Marketplace, and Sagi Brody, CTO at Opti9.
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By Opti9
Join Opti9 experts on this informative webinar on Ransomware Recovery, where we will discuss the challenges that organizations face in protecting their data from ransomware attacks and why immutable backups are not enough to guarantee a full recovery.
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By Opti9
In today's world, data is the backbone of any business, and the need for data protection is crucial. This video covers everything you need to know about Office 365 backups, including how we protect your data, ensuring it's always accessible and reliably stored.
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By Opti9
Opti9tech's hybrid cloud solutions are tailored to meet the unique needs of credit unions. With their flexible and scalable approach, Opti9tech offers a range of cloud-based solutions that can be customized to fit the specific requirements of each credit union. This includes a hybrid cloud solution that combines the benefits of both private and public clouds, providing maximum flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
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By Opti9
Protecting your digital assets is critical in today's technology-driven world. Observr Ransomware Detection and Protection offers a comprehensive and advanced solution for businesses and individuals to safeguard their data against ransomware attacks. This video explores the features and benefits of Observr Ransomware Detection and Protection.
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By Opti9
Opti9 Cloud Operations is an innovative cloud-based solution that enables businesses to achieve optimal performance for their applications. With Opti9 Cloud Operations, businesses can experience faster deployment, better scalability, and increased agility, all while delivering the best possible service to their customers.
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By Opti9
In today's fast-paced business world, data is king, and losing it could mean disaster for your business. Managing backups can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, taking focus away from your core business. That's where our cloud backup services come in.
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By Opti9
Discover the Benefits of Cloud Migration for Government Agencies, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Industrial IoT.
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By Opti9
According to the FBI's Internet Crime Report, businesses suffered a $6.9 billion loss due to cybercrimes in 2021. This resulted in a loss of revenue, reduced customer trust, and expensive compliance penalties for thousands of organizations across the states. So the question is no longer why you should move to the cloud, but when and how?
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By Opti9
Before cloud computing achieved mainstream adoption across organizations worldwide, independent software vendors (ISVs) often required customers to purchase and manage commercial databases to run their applications. This practice imposes the high costs and restrictions of commercial database licensing on their customers, raising their total cost of ownership while hindering the customer's ability to deploy and consume applications in a way that best aligns with their needs.
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By Opti9
By migrating enterprise workloads to the AWS Cloud, organizations across the globe are maximizing price-to-performance and reaping the benefits of modernization. With this program, Opti9 will show you how to save on third-party licensing costs and run your resources more efficiently. Our eBook, Reduce Licensing Costs and Modernize Enterprise Workloads, shares expert guidance on identifying your right-sized resources, exploring flexible licensing options, and reducing overall costs.
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Opti9 is a hybrid cloud solutions provider with a focus on cloud, security, and application modernization.
We listen, identify the problem, and leverage technology to solve that problem so our customers can move forward. Our delivery experts quickly identify problems, proactively help architect solutions, and directly drive business outcomes for your go-forward strategy.
The Opti9 Approach:
- Consultation to understand your business needs.
- Unbiased and vendor agnostic approach to find the best solution.
- Award winning security and management applications added.
- Skilled experts guiding your business throughout the journey.
Right Workload. Right Cloud. Right Time.