In the rapidly evolving landscape of platform engineering, Kubernetes has emerged as a cornerstone technology that can significantly enhance operational agility and scalability in application deployment and management. It not only streamlines operational processes, it strategically minimizes organizational and process risks by reducing the complexity associated with scaling infrastructure. The robust ecosystem enables integration across diverse environments, fostering innovation by liberating teams from the burdens of routine maintenance.

For executive decision-makers, adoption of Kubernetes represents a forward-thinking approach to managing technology stacks so the organization can remain agile and responsive to market changes. By mitigating potential disruptions and inefficiencies associated with traditional deployment methods, Kubernetes provides a secure and stable foundation that supports ongoing operational excellence and competitive advantage.

Diamanti stands at the forefront of this technology, addressing the inherent complexities of Kubernetes environments, particularly within hybrid cloud architectures. By seamlessly integrating advanced storage and networking capabilities with Kubernetes management, Diamanti simplifies the operational challenges of these technologies. The platform enhances application performance and resilience, offering a turnkey solution that reduces the labor to configure and operate containerized applications. This automation in turn allows organizations to focus more on innovation and less on infrastructure management.

Diamanti supports advanced data portability across multiple cloud environments. This capability protects against vendor lock-in, enabling organizations to maintain control over their deployments and optimize cloud strategies for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Additionally, Diamanti prioritizes security, integrating robust security measures directly within the Kubernetes orchestration process to safeguard applications and data at all deployment layers, from physical infrastructure to the application runtime environment. This integrated approach ensures comprehensive protection, bolstering the resilience and trustworthiness of the deployment architecture.

Through its unique blend of simplicity, performance, efficiency, and security, Diamanti sets itself apart as a formidable competitor in the Kubernetes management arena. It further displays clear potential to drive significant TCO savings and operational excellence.

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Commvault® Cloud Cleanroom™ Recovery offers CIOs a robust and innovative solution to help maintain business continuity amid escalating cyber threats. It is an advanced recovery solution that minimizes downtime and boosts operational resilience by leveraging an on-demand sterile and isolated cloud tenant. Notably, it includes AI-enabled recovery orchestration to enable clean and effective cyber recovery and testing in an isolated recovery environment, which illustrates Commvault’s foresight in protecting critical business operations against modern cyberthreats. It assures CIOs that critical business assets are recoverable quickly to a clean state—without restoring compromised credentials as part of the data and application recovery. Importantly, the solution also provides regular, predictable, and auditable recovery testing.

By creating an on-demand, isolated recovery environment (IRE) in the cloud, Commvault demonstrates a forward-thinking approach to safeguarding sensitive data, ensuring business-critical data can be quickly, reliably, and securely restored, free from compromises. In addition, this isolated, on-demand environment is suitable for recovery testing and forensic use cases. Regular, auditable cyber recovery testing, in particular, has historically been difficult to implement due to the costs and complexities of replicating production environments for all critical applications and their underlying data.

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Commvault® Cloud Cleanroom™ Recovery has emerged as a pivotal solution for organizations and their technology leaders, enhancing resilience against cyber threats that adapt and evolve faster than technology leaders can combat them. The challenging threat landscape dictates the need for a new form of cyber readiness and recovery that considers the unknown. Commvault Cloud Cleanroom Recovery facilitates swift, clean, and secure restoration of critical business systems in a secure and isolated on-demand cloud tenant, free from account compromise and unknown third-party access.

The absence of a solution to this problem leaves security teams uncertain about the effectiveness of recovery efforts in an environment free of compromise. This extends the security teams’ work to complete the recovery after the data is restored and the applications are returned to an operational state. Without confirmation that the account compromise is removed, the operational state is not sound. This poses a challenge for security teams as the possibility of re-infection, or additional compromise, remains, even when the business believes it has recovered.

It supports technology leaders in their strategic role of safeguarding organizational assets and keeping the business operational. By creating an on-demand, isolated recovery environment (IRE) in the cloud, Commvault demonstrates a forward-thinking approach to safeguarding sensitive data, making sure business-critical data can be quickly, reliably, and securely restored into a clean environment.

Commvault empowers CISOs to assert control over cyber recovery processes (including preparedness, response planning, testing, roles, and responsibilities) by making sure data and applications are restored to a pristine state without enabling the restoration of compromised credentials. With predictable and auditable recovery testing and the ability to perform forensic analysis post-breach–in a secure and isolated cloud environment–the solution aligns with the nuanced demands of cyber resilience, especially with regard to readiness and recovery.

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Data executives are primarily concerned with data management, emphasizing the governance, quality, and strategic use of data within an organization. Their responsibilities include developing and governing the enterprise-wide data and information strategy, policy development, and improving data quality and lifecycle management. The goal: to derive maximum business value from data, making it a foundational asset for decision-making, innovation, and competitive advantage.

With data dispersed across multiple environments—from on-premises servers to cloud platforms—many organizations struggle to fully grasp what data they possess, where it resides, and how it is utilized and governed. Many organizations additionally face global restrictions on where data can reside and have insufficient controls in place to confirm compliance. Compounding the challenge is the urgent need to pinpoint and protect the most vital data, which, if compromised, could severely disrupt operations. Against this backdrop, supporting data resilience and safeguarding the integrity and availability of critical information is paramount for business continuity and compliance.

Commvault® Cloud Cleanroom™ Recovery offers data executives a strategic solution for managing their organization’s paramount asset—data. Cleanroom Recovery is an advanced recovery solution designed to improve data resilience against cyber threats, improving the availability and integrity of data that is critical for business continuity and compliance. By creating an on-demand, isolated recovery environment (IRE) in the cloud, Commvault demonstrates a forward-thinking approach to the challenge, enabling business-critical data to be quickly, reliably, and securely restored, free of compromises.

The solution transcends traditional data protection, addressing the problem of reliable data and application recovery in the event of a cyber attack or catastrophic system failure. Leveraging a state-of-the-art IRE hosted on a secure and isolated on-demand cloud tenant, the solution facilitates clean recovery for testing, forensic analysis, and uninterrupted business continuity in the event of a cyber incident.

Cyber resilience demands a collaborative, organization-wide approach to support business continuity. More than a technical solution, Commvault Cloud Cleanroom Recovery stands as the cornerstone of a successful program of corporate governance and compliance.

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Let’s be clear: It’s not a matter of if or when your organization will suffer a cyber incident, but rather how bad it will be. The best you can do is mitigate the attack vectors, making it as hard as possible for attackers to gain traction in your environments and enhance recovery to minimize the damage when it happens. The problem with defense is that it always lags behind the innovation of the offense. To make organizations as resilient as possible, it is critical executives understand a new concept: cyber resiliency.

Unlike traditional backup and recovery, cyber resiliency is designed to be prepared for and to recover from an attack where data was lost or damaged and the locks protecting access and corruption were compromised. Backup recovery and disaster recovery are designed only to assist with data loss, leaving the compromised protections still damaged.

Cyber resiliency is chartered to be well prepared and capable in recovering data and applications to their clean, malware-free state in order to keep the business operating (or resilient). The recovery is performed to a new, clean, and secure location and environment (data, applications, hardware, firmware, BIOS, etc.) that enables a verifiable clean recovery. While the technical implementation of these solutions falls to technical leadership, organizational resilience–the ability to work–is everyone’s responsibility.

Commvault® Cloud Cleanroom™ Recovery offers organizations a resilient, secure, and isolated environment for clean cyber recovery–as well as the orchestration required for clean, reliable recovery at scale. This solution is particularly valuable in supporting smooth recovery subsequent to data breach or corruption from sophisticated cyber threats. The result: assured data availability and integrity that is crucial to maintaining business continuity and compliance.

By creating an on-demand, isolated recovery environment (IRE) in the cloud, Commvault demonstrates a forward-thinking approach to safeguarding sensitive data. It allows business-critical data to be quickly, reliably, and securely restored—to a clean location—so both the data and the environment into which it is being recovered are free from compromises.

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