Just before 5 a.m. on May 7, 2021, a ransom note from the DarkSide ransomware syndicate flashed across a Colonial Pipeline Co. employee’s computer screen. More than a month later, Joseph Blount, Colonial’s CEO, testified before Congress that recovery from the attack was still not complete.
Like most companies, Colonial maintained backups they could use to recover. They eventually did rely on those backups, but not before paying the ransom and attempting to decrypt files using a tool provided by the cybercriminals that was too painfully slow to wait for. The lesson here: Backup is vital as part of a disaster recovery plan, but the actual “recovery”—how you get your business back online using that backup data—is just as important. Few businesses can survive the hit of weeks or months spent offline.
Maybe your backup system is well-established, but the lift of recovery planning is overshadowed by more immediate demands on your team when you’re already stretched too thin. Or maybe you’ve looked into disaster recovery solutions, but they’re not right-sized for your business. Either way, if you’re using Veeam to manage backups, you can now consider your disaster recovery playbook complete.
Announcing Backblaze Instant Recovery in Any Cloud
We’re excited to announce Backblaze Instant Recovery in Any Cloud—an infrastructure as code (IaC) package that makes ransomware recovery into a VMware/Hyper-V based cloud easy to plan for and execute for any IT team.
Most businesses know that backing up is critical for disaster recovery. But we see time and again that organizations under duress struggle with getting their systems back online, and that’s why Backblaze’s new solution can be a game-changer.”
—Mark Potter, CISO, Backblaze
When you discover a ransomware attack on your network, scrambling to get servers up and running is the last thing you want to worry about. Instant Recovery in Any Cloud provides businesses an easy and flexible path to as-soon-as-possible disaster recovery in the event of a ransomware attack by spinning up servers in a VMware/Hyper-V based cloud.
Teams can use an industry-standard automation tool to run a single command to quickly bring up an orchestrated combination of on-demand servers, firewalls, networking, storage, and other infrastructure in phoenixNAP, drawing data for your VMware/Hyper-V based environment over immediately from Veeam® Backup & Replication™ backups, so businesses can get back online with minimal disruption or expense. Put simply, it’s an on-demand path to a rock solid disaster recovery plan.
Below, we’ll explain the why and how of this solution, but if you’d like to learn more or ask questions, we’re offering a webinar on October 20 at 10 a.m. PST and have a full Knowledge Base article available here.
