Enterprise-Class Performance and Capacity Management Made Easy

VKernel vOperations Suite simplifies virtualization management by visualizing, analyzing, remediating performance, capacity and cost issues detected in Hyper-V, RHEV (Q4 2011) and vSphere environments. The award-winning vOPS™ is unique in its use of a patent-pending Capacity Analytics Engine™ to deliver precise and actionable recommendations, ease of implementation, scalability, integration capabilities and quick time to value. vOPS installs as a single agent-less virtual appliance in 20 minutes and provides virtualized environments with a single pane of glass for virtualization management tasks.

VKernel vOperations Suite™

Key Features

• Single integrated virtual appliance for Hyper-V and VMware performance monitoring, optimization, chargeback, reporting and capacity planning with API access for VKernel data integration
• vOPS vSCOPE visually displays performance, capacity and cost health of all VMs in an environment, across multiple data centers and hypervisors, on one screen
• Smart Business Views that automatically group related VMs for reporting, operational tasks and user access control

Operational Benefits

• Maintain peak VM performance and eliminate firefighting caused by VM performance problems
• Optimize server and storage efficiency in virtual environments
• Assess current and future available capacity
• Streamline virtualization operations with API integration of capacity data into external applications
• Gain visibility into virtual infrastructure health and costs across multiple data centers and hypervisors

Business Benefits

• Reduce downtime and VM performance issues
• Improve confidence in virtualization infrastructure and accelerate virtualization roll out
• Decrease capital costs (server, storage and infrastructure) and operational costs(power, cooling and licensing)
• Enable virtual environment reporting for customers and management that can be embedded into external systems
• Gain cost visibility and chargeback capabilities for the virtual environment

Disaster Recovery

General steps to follow while creating BCP / DRP

1. Identify the scope and boundaries of business continuity plan. First step enables us to define scope of BCP. It provides an idea for limitations and boundaries of plan. It also includes audit and risk analysis reports for institution’s assets.
2. Conduct a business impact analysis (BIA). Business impact analysis is study and assessment of financial losses to institution resulting from destructive event as unavailability of important business services.
3. Sell the concept of BCP to upper management and obtain organizational and financial commitment. Convincing senior management to approve BCP/DRP is key task. It is very important for security professional to get approval for plan from upper management to bring it to effect.
4. Each department will need to understand its role in plan and support to maintain it. In case of disaster, each department has to be prepared for the action. To recover and to protect the critical systems each department has to understand the plan follows it accordingly. It is also important to maintain and help in creation of plan for each individual department.
5. The BCP project team must implement the plan. After approval from upper management plan should be maintained and implemented. Implementation team should follow the guidelines procedures in plan.
6. NIST tool set can be used for doing BCP. National Institute of standards and Technologies has published tools which can help in creating BCP.

Business Continuity

Cloud Client Computing

Wyse Cloud Client Portfolio

1. Wyse Cloud Clients
   • Wyse Thin Clients – Sophisticated. Secure. Friendly. Performance with flexible functionality.
   • Wyse Zero Clients – Simple. Secure. Stingy. Performance with dedicated functionality.
   • Cloud PCs – Familiar. Performance. Improved. The PC, only better – with centralized OS, applications, and content.
2. Handhelds – Complete support for Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets viaWyse PocketCloud, the leading Mobile Cloud Software for enterprises and consumers.
3. Wyse Ultra-thin Firmware – Wyse ThinOS, Linux, Windows CE and Windows Embedded Standard– the most comprehensive, secure, scalable and reliable cloud client firmware suite in the industry.

Wyse Cloud Software Portfolio

1. Wyse Cloud Client Software
   • Wyse Zero™ – Cloud-based technology engine powering a new world of cloud-connected dedicated Zero Clients.
   • Wyse Mobile Cloud Software – Wyse PocketCloud, the leading cloud-based mobile app suite connecting you to your personal, private or public cloud from any handheld.
   • Wyse Cloud PC Software – Cloud-based software to cloudify your PCs, TCs, or VMs by centralizing their OS, apps and content in a private cloud.
2. Wyse Management Software – Secure. Scalable. Cloud-centric remote device management for the extended enterprise.
3. Wyse Virtualization Software – Delivering the best user experience and optimized performance for any cloud client deployment.

Key Whitewater Benefits:

• Reduce disaster recover costs with cloud data protection
• Meet accelerated recovery SLAs
• Simplify off-site data storage for DR
• Secure offsite data
• Deploy with no change to existing backup infrastructure

Cloud Steelhead™

Cloud Steelhead™ offers the same WAN optimization functionality you’ve come to know and trust, in a form factor that’s much better suited for public cloud environments. It completely interoperates with Steelhead^® appliances, Virtual Steelhead™, and Steelhead Mobile™ clients.

Cloud Steelhead includes tools that allow for instant deployment and easy cloning of instances. It also has a uniquely advanced model for intercepting traffic in the cloud. In addition, a new portal allows for easy management and licensing, and instant upgrades of cloud Steelhead instances.

Key benefits of Cloud Steelhead:

• Instant deployment
• Simple, portal-based management
• Elastic sizing and easy cloning
• Advanced cloud interception
• Cloud-like pricing model

Problems:-
a) Too many credential
b) Which one for which application
c) Multiple logons
d) Provisioning new accounts
e) Password management
f) Auditing user activity
g) De-provisioning users
h) Managing non-employees access

Governance describes the overall management approach through which senior executives direct and control the entire organization, using a combination of management information and hierarchical management control structures. Governance activities ensure that critical management information reaching the executive team is sufficiently complete, accurate and timely to enable appropriate management decision making, and provide the control mechanisms to ensure that strategies, directions and instructions from management are carried out systematically and effectively.

Risk management is the set of processes through which management identifies, analyses and where necessary responds appropriately to risks that might adversely affect realization of the organization’s business objectives. The response to risks typically depends on their perceived gravity, and involves controlling, avoiding, accepting or transferring them to a third party. Whereas organizations routinely manage a wide range of risks (e.g. technological risks, commercial/financial risks, information security risks etc.), external legal and regulatory compliance risks are arguably the key issue in GRC.

Compliance means conforming with stated requirements. At an organizational level, it is achieved through management processes which identify the applicable requirements (defined for example in laws, regulations, contracts, strategies and policies), assess the state of compliance, assess the risks and potential costs of non-compliance against the projected expenses to achieve compliance, and hence prioritize, fund and initiate any corrective actions deemed necessary.

CDP delivers automatic, transparent backup that ensures data, applications and systems are reliably protected from common user error, hardware failure, deletion, potential disaster and malicious attack. Integrated scheduling offers administrator controls to perform backups continuously in real time or automatically on a routine basis for both files and database data set. CDP integrated scheduling performs daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly backup at a specific desired time for optimize backup operation and network resource utilization.

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Risk assessment is a step in a risk management process. Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat (also called hazard). Departments who handle or manage information assets or electronic resources should conduct formal risk assessments. A risk assessment is a process by which to determine what information resources exist that require protection, and to understand and document potential risks from IT security failures that may cause loss of information confidentiality, integrity, or availability. The purpose of a risk assessment is to help management create appropriate strategies and controls for stewardship of information assets.

Successful risk assessments require full support of senior management and must be conducted by teams that include both functional managers and information technology administrators. As business operations, workflow, or technologies change, periodic reviews must be conducted to analyze these changes, to account for new threats and vulnerabilities created by these changes, and to determine the effectiveness of existing controls.

Types of risk assessment processes are:

Qualitative—A simplified process of identifying the major threats to which an enterprise is exposed. For example, if one’s IT enterprise is located within “tornado alley,” there is an implied threat of a tornado occurring that could subsequently cause an impact to assets or processes?

Quantitative—Today’s risk management requires a direct correlation to the value of the assets that require protection. Organizations increasingly want to know what the cost/benefit is to protecting an asset or process. CFOs also want to know what the return on investment (ROI) is for investing in risk reduction/mitigation strategies. To find this information, an advanced risk analysis technique, known as a quantitative approach, is used to provide statistical insight to risk prediction and impact. This method requires that one establish a monetary value for the assets and processes, estimate the probability of a threat occurring, and determine the ROI for implementing safeguards to reduce the impact caused by that threat occurring.

Risk Assessment Tools

Risk Assessment Tools

Ref: – ISACA