Security
Cyber Resilience and Ransomware Recovery
By 2026, "we have backups" is not a security posture. Ransomware groups compromise the backup environment first specifically because everyone assumed backups were the safety net. Dell, HPE, and Everpure answer that with genuinely different bets, an isolated vault, near-zero recovery time, or an unencryptable primary array, and none of them is objectively correct. The right one depends on whether the buyer's real constraint is compliance, uptime, or operational simplicity.
How These Vendors Actually Differ
- Compliance-driven buyers usually need Dell's answer: a physically and logically isolated vault they can point to as demonstrable separation from production, not just a policy statement.
- Uptime-driven buyers usually need HPE's answer: Zerto's continuous replication keeps recovery point objectives in seconds, which matters most for transaction-heavy systems.
- Operationally lean buyers usually need Everpure's answer: SafeMode immutability built into the primary array means no separate vault environment to size, maintain, and drill against.
- Ask which constraint is actually driving the requirement before recommending an architecture, the three approaches are not interchangeable and buyers rarely articulate this distinction on their own.
Cyber Resilience and Ransomware Recovery Use Cases
- Ransomware recovery planning
- Immutable backup and snapshot design
- Isolated recovery vault deployment
- Continuous data protection (low RPO/RTO)
- Cyber recovery testing and validation
Questions to Ask About Cyber Resilience and Ransomware Recovery
- Does our backup strategy assume backups themselves can be targeted, not just primary data?
- What is the real difference between an isolated recovery vault and storage-layer immutable snapshots?
- What recovery point and recovery time objectives does our business actually require, by system?
- How is ransomware or data corruption detected before a restore, not just after?