Microsoft Azure Cloud

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Disaster Recovery is Broken… Don’t blame Your IT! Switch to Zerto DR

Shantha Kumari

We hear a lot about the ease of cloud, the flexibility of cloud – the ability to cut down on your costs and consume only what is required. The correct term would be “cloud bursting”. If this were that simple, then every business would be queuing up for this opportunity. They would not have to spend time, resource and money on significant and complex cloud migration projects.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity for a New World

Disaster recovery is more than just a strategy in your business continuity plans. It is a crucial part that will get your business back online in the event of any natural or manmade disaster. What most organizations don’t realize though is that the right disaster recovery solution will also deliver IT resiliency.

Zerto is more than just replication and DR. Zerto provides enterprise-class disaster recovery and business continuity software specifically for virtualized data centers and cloud environments. It is offers enterprise workload mobility, from a product that works exclusively in the virtual layer. That means they can move applications and data, in a consistent state, in a few clicks, with just a minute or so of disruption and also between different hypervisors and clouds.  

Zerto DR Equipped for any IT World

Sysfore and Zerto – a Viable Partnership

Cloud DR is the basis for deciding when, where and how to move your business to cloud. With Zerto, effective DR is possible within the private cloud, to the public cloud and in the public cloud.

Zerto partners with Sysfore, the leading Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to offer a cloud based business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) service, enabling businesses of all sizes to protect production applications both to the cloud and in the cloud. Having extensive Cloud DR expertise, Sysfore offers Zerto Cloud DR Ecosystem and services powered by Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) 4.0 — a platform for secure, non-intrusive, cloud-based BC DR for private, hybrid and public clouds.

Get in touch with our DR experts and we’ll give a free assessment on implementing Zerto’s DR solution for your business.

Disaster Recovery Solution from Zerto

Zerto’s hypervisor-based replication technology is the first disaster recovery system that lets Cloud Service Providers offer cost-effective, automated, enterprise-class DR as a Service. With Zerto, cloud providers can deliver a solution that is:

  • Multi-site — the ability to replicate between more than one site, enabling you to support many customers.
  • Multi-tenant — full integration with multiple platforms like VMware, Hyper-V, AWS and Cloud, which enables centralized and simplified management of all virtual data centers as well as effectively leverage resources within the cloud to realize economies of scale.
  • Array agnostic — replicates any customer environment to your cloud regardless of their storage vendor or architecture
  • Deployed quickly and remotely — installs remotely in hours without requiring any changes to the customer environment
  • Tested and validated anytime — recovers customer applications in your cloud with one click of a button
  • Granular — allows customers to pick specific applications to protect, regardless of their physical server or storage location
  • Comprehensive — provides robust replication and offsite backup in one simple product
  • Consistent and reliable — provides scalable, block-level replication with RPO of seconds and RTO of mere  minutes

Implement Zerto’s Disaster Recovery solutions in your business, to avoid costly outages. Installation of the Zerto Virtual Replication software can be completed in under an hour, even for complex applications. By replicating at the hypervisor level, Zerto simplifies replication and recovery into a three-click process.

Contact Sysfore’s Cloud Disaster Recovery experts thorough info@sysfore.com or call us at +91-80-4110-5555 to know more.

June 1 – Finally Microsoft SQL Server 2016 gets GA release date!

Shantha Kumari

Database fans, start your clocks: Microsoft announced Monday that its new version of SQL Server will be out of beta and ready for commercial release on June 1.

The news means that companies waiting to pick up SQL Server 2016 until its general availability can start planning their adoption. Expect two new features to power up your databases – Stretch Database and Always Encrypted function.

Sysfore already has a long standing expertise in implementing the earlier editions of SQL Server for its clients. We can help your migrate your existing database server to the SQL Server 2016 smoothly.

MS SQL Server 2016 June 1 release

 

SQL Server 2016 comes with a suite of new features over its predecessor, including a new Stretch Database function that allows users to store some of their data in a database on-premises and send infrequently used  data to Microsoft’s Azure cloud. An application connected to a database using that feature can still see all the data from different sources, though.

Another marquee feature is the new Always Encrypted function, which makes it possible for users to encrypt data at the column level both at rest and in memory. That’s still only scratching the surface of the software, which also supports creating mobile business intelligence dashboards and new functionality for big data applications.

SQL Server 2016 will come in four editions: Enterprise, Standard, Developer and Express. The latter two will be available for free, similar to what Microsoft offered with SQL Server 2014.

In addition to its on-premises release, Microsoft will also have a virtual machine available on June 1 through its Azure cloud platform that will make it easy for companies to deploy SQL Server 2016 in the cloud.

Many of the new features in SQL Server 2016 like Always Encrypted and Stretch Database are already available in Microsoft’s Azure SQL Database managed service, but the virtual machine will be useful for companies that prefer to manage their own database infrastructure or that plan to roll out SQL Server 2016 on premises and want to test it in the cloud.

All of this comes a few months after Microsoft announced that it would also release SQL Server on Linux in the future. That’s a powerful sign of Microsoft’s strategy of making its tools available to users on a wide variety of platforms, even those that the company doesn’t control.

Sysfore can help you build, secure, and seamlessly scale your existing database to MS SQL Server 2016. Contact us at  info@sysfore.com or call us at +91-80-4110-5555, +91 9845189275 or +91 9845698669 to know more.

Big Data meets Fashion – Put your best foot forward!

Shantha Kumari

Take the guesswork out of fashion. Big Data is your latest and hottest trends that’s taking the world of fashion by storm. In an industry where every color, cut, design and trend is micro analyzed and just as easily thrown out of the window with the next launch; you need to keep one step ahead of the competition. This is where Big Data puts its best foot forward (pun intended!)

Fashion as an industry is often regarded as frivolous or unnecessary, despite its global and money making capacity. But behind the scene is a very big business that can push the economy. The last projected revenues is around $3.75 trillion in 2016.

Check out Sysfore’s expertise in Big Data and call us to fix an appointment with our Big Data experts.

Fashion Data for retailers and designers

Big data solutions are increasingly become a part of the designers strategy. In an industry based on creativity, intuition and expression, applying cold data seems farfetched. But it is precisely this that helps the designers and retailers to accurately predict the latest fashion trends.

Big Data & Fashion

Big Data is all about turning extremely large quantities of data into useful information. When companies aggregate data and analyze them effectively, patterns emerge, ideas are born, and fashion companies become trend setters.

Aggregating global fashion trend and sales information from a wide variety of sources –including retail sites, social media, designer runway reports, and blogs–Competitive Intelligence (CI) is synthesized from the data, accessible in real time and can be customized to spotlight information relating to the unique priorities or focus of the company.

You can aptly use the term “Trend forecasting” that Wall Street Journal contributor Kathy Gordon used to describe information analysis using Big Data. Leading in this field is the Editd, an apparel data warehouse aimed at helping the world’s apparel retailers, brands, and suppliers deliver the right products at the right price and the right time.

Solutions for a distinct fashion problem

Agile retail companies are using Big Data analytics to identify consumer trends, utilize highly efficient production and distribution systems, and only sell online. The result is products that people want, at prices they can afford, without having to go to a mall.

So why should the fashion houses and e-retailers care about the immense valuable data available through data analytics? A look below will answer your question:

Curbing waste

One constant issue faced by the designers is guessing the right volume of items to be sold. An incorrect value will result in excess items being produced, which will have to be sold at discounted rates to make up for the loss. Using Big Data analytics, you can determine the demand and supply ratio accordingly, and produce in appropriate quantities.

Mass Productions

Customers now want quick service with instant gratification. Mass production is a guaranteed way of satisfying the huge demand. But, it can also backfire with items being produced which may or may not be consumed. Using Big data analytics, retailers can manufacture items based on which products are working and quickly alter the production accordingly.

Aggregation

Instead of pulling solely from internal datasets, companies today are able to pull from a variety of datasets across the web to determine not only what their customers want but also what their competitor’s competition wants. Social media shares, likes, tweets are used to analyze the trends and people’s response to any new design launched by the designers.

Through the use of big data from data collection tools, even the notoriously fickle and creatively driven industries like fashion can more efficiently deliver the products and services that meet consumer demands. Identifying designer influence allows producers, retailers and consumers to make more informed decisions about what they buy, as well as identify tomorrow’s influencers within the industry.

If this article gets you piqued about Big Data and its immense value in transforming your business, do call us at +91-80-4110-5555 or mail to info@sysfore.com.