Marine Cargo Handling Company Moves Production Environment to the ePlus Cloud after Ransomware Event
Extends ePlus Cloud Managed Data Protection solution with Cloud Managed Infrastructure to host mission-critical applications, delivering an end-to-end business continuity strategy with proactive monitoring and endpoint controls for reduced risk
Business Challenges
Challenge 1
The organization’s self-managed production on-prem environment was completely compromised by a successful ransomware attack, and ePlus incident response teams were engaged.
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Challenge 2
As an existing ePlus customer for Cloud Managed Backup and Cloud Disaster Recovery, the company was able to failover into a disaster recovery tenant in the ePlus cloud within a few hours and recover to an earlier known good state.
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Challenge 3
Although it was able to recover quickly from the ePlus Cloud Managed Data Protection solution in place, the organization had a lean IT staff and sought hosted options with more comprehensive security to avoid the lengthy process of rebuilding the entire production environment as required by its Cyber Liability insurance provider.
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Why ePlus?
- Existing trust as an ePlus Managed Services and Cloud Managed Data Protection customer
- Ability to understand the customer’s business requirements and close working knowledge of the existing IT infrastructure
- Technical expertise surrounding the value of cloud-based solutions, especially in the infrastructure space
- Proven capabilities demonstrated with existing ePlus solutions and security advisory services
Solution
ePlus Cloud Managed Services for Microsoft Azure
- ePlus Cloud Hosted Infrastructure (to complement the existing ePlus Cloud Managed Backup and ePlus Cloud Disaster Recovery solutions in place)
- Managed Security Detection and Response (MDR) Services
Business Outcomes
- The turnkey production infrastructure hosted by ePlus in the cloud provides an enterprise platform for hosting mission-critical applications and includes an end-to-end business continuity strategy.
- The company has the flexibility to benefit from leading-edge, scalable infrastructure without capital investments.
- The solution is layered with Managed Security Services for proactive monitoring and endpoint controls for reduced risk.
- White-glove support from the ePlus Managed Services team provides full management of the infrastructure, backup, disaster recovery, and security so the customer’s IT staff can focus on managing their applications and other business-critical IT initiatives.
- Consumption-based cost models are designed to match the cyclical needs of the customer’s applications.
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