It’s Official: Top 10 Virtualization Solution Providers – 2017

We are delighted to announce that we were selected as part of APAC CIO Outlook magazine’s Top 10 Virtualization Solution Providers – 2017.

CIO Outlook is a printed and online technology business magazine that helps inform businesses across Asia Pacific with leading technologies across multiple markets. The following story was run in the Nov 2017 edition of the APAC CIO Outlook magazine.

 

Even though the concept of virtualization was born in the 1960s, it is only in the recent years that it has been democratized. Its perks, however, are still a distant dream for many entities (especially SMBs) due to the significant IT resource and budget required. By assisting SMBs in reaping the benefits of virtualization, a group of certified and experienced IT professionals founded the Malaysia-based CLL Systems. With its diversify solution such as cloud computing, data protection, enterprise server & storage, hyper-converged solutions and professional services, CLL Systems allows organizations to trim their downtimes, increase flexibility, and recommends ways to use hardware more efficiently.

CLL Systems’ cloud portfolio of services encompasses isProtect (known as infrastructure as a service, IaaS), bkProtect (known as backup as a service, BaaS), and drProtect (known as disaster recovery-as-a-service, DRaaS), which can transform an organization’s legacy infrastructure into a virtual infrastructure. “Migrating data centers into the cloud is one of our bigger implementations, and we tie-up with VMware and Veeam for such virtualization and consolidation projects,” mentions Kenny Low, Director, Technical, CLL Systems.

Founded in 2008, CLL Systems has catered to over 500 multi-national and local companies, and public sector organizations so far. But its primary focus has always been SMBs. The company provides end-to-end services that cover every aspect of virtualization starting from design, implementation, migration, to maintenance of server and storage virtualization, virtualization assessments, and desktop virtualization. Also, it ensures that the virtual infrastructures are deployed in lesser time frames and are also cost-effective.

Migrating to virtual infrastructure is a costly bet and involves a lot of risks. “We offer consulting services to mitigate every risk that might come a client’s way. The consulting services focus on strategies, operations, digital transformations, analytics among other aspects for fulfilling customer needs,” enunciates Eric Yeap, Director, Sales & Marketing, CLL Systems.
There is an instance where one of the SMB player, an independent software vendor was operating multiple data centers in Malaysia. Owing to its legacy hardware, the vendor was unable to scale according to its evolving business requirements. The client wanted a data center transformation program and approached CLL Systems for its assistance. CLL Systems initiated a virtualization and server consolidation project for the client, superseding the obsolete hardware with new hardware. CLL Systems also examined the attributes needed for data center consolidation, administration issues, and cost-saving strategies for its customer.

Eric says, “Our commitment and approach towards our customers are what sets us apart.” The consultants and engineers at CLL Systems bring in their wealth of experience to deliver the best of solutions to their customers.
Keeping pace with the evolving trends in the virtualization technology, CLL Systems is gearing up to enhance its virtualization security by dynamically migrating from on-premise virtualization to the cloud. Currently, the company utilizes the virtualization platform to craft its own public cloud solutions to provide service such as IaaS, BaaS, and DRaaS, all through its own data centers supporting business transformation and meet business needs. Moving ahead, CLL Systems anticipates partnering with bigger firms, experienced people, and provide right solutions and technology to deliver an improved customer experience

7 Reasons Not To Renew Legacy Backup

Every day, more and more Legacy Backup customers switch to Veeam®. Why? Because Legacy Backup does not deliver the 24.7.365 Availability today’s businesses demand with the ability to restore any IT service running in the hybrid cloud within seconds and minutes.

Replacing legacy backup is a key enabler of digital transformation, business continuity and increased agility. Veeam dramatically improves attainment of service legal agreements (SLAs), increases reliability and reduces operational complexity resulting in measurable ROI and lower TCO.

Join thousands of others by switching to Veeam and get The Availability solution designed from the ground up to protect applications and data wherever they are – on-premises or in the cloud, on laptops or desktops, virtual machines or physical servers – anywhere!

Check out the Top 7 Reasons NOT to renew your legacy backup solution and switch to Veeam today!

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Top 10 reasons to upgrade to VMware vSphere 6.5

The latest edition of VMware vSphere® has launched sometimes ago – making our industry-leading virtualization platform even more powerful, flexible and secure foundation for business agility that accelerates the digital transformation to cloud computing and success in the digital economy.

vSphere 6.5 supports both existing and next-gen apps through:

  • simplified customer experience for automation and management at scale
  • comprehensive built-in security for protecting data, infrastructure, and access
  • universal app platform for running any app, anywhere
  • proactive data center management to address potential issues before they become serious problems

With vSphere 6.5 customers can now run, manage, connect, and secure their applications in a common operating environment, across clouds and devices.

As a vSphere customer, your free upgrade is available now. vSphere version 6.5 delivers a dramatically simplified experience, comprehensive built-in security and a universal app platform for running any app. Upgrade now to discover how you can:

1. Reduce complexity with vCenter Server Appliance

2. Mitigate risk with VM-level encryption

3. Drive IT automation and business agility with APIs

4. Secure the data center infrastructure with Secure Boot

5. Gain forensic insights and with audit-quality logging

6. Maximize resources in the data center with predictive load balancing

7. Modernize the data center with vSphere® Integrated Containers™

8. Prevent downtime with proactive high availability

9. Streamline management with a HTML5-based user interface

10. Improve IT compliance with Host Profile Management

For more information, you may refer to VMware Upgrade Center.
Contact Us for UPGRADE your VMware vSphere Now!

VMware Upgrade Promotion

For a limited time, get 50% off when you upgrade from vSphere or vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise to vSphere or vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Plus. You can also upgrade from vSphere Enterprise edition to vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Plus edition and get 50% off.

Why Upgrade?

The Enterprise Plus editions provide the full range of vSphere features, including Distributed Switch, Host Profiles and Auto Deploy. These new features can improve application availability and performance, helping transform your data centers into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments.

The vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Plus edition takes vSphere to the next level with intelligent operations and consistent management.

It offers you:

  • Improved IT performance and minimal disruption
  • Intelligent operations from apps to storage
  • Simplified availability and comprehensive visibility
  • Powerful insights that help you manage business needs
  • Automated workload placements and resource optimization
  • More time in your day to focus on strategic tasks

Contact us Today!

Happy 60th Merdeka Celebration to all Malaysians

As Malaysia celebrates its 60th Independence Day, we’d like to wish all our Malaysian a Selamat Hari Merdeka! Hope you’re having an awesome celebration during the Merdeka holidays!

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  1. Like & Follow CLL Systems Sdn Bhd Facebook TODAY!
  2. CLL Systems Sdn Bhd will participate in the Selangor International Expo 14-17 Sept 2017 @ Setia Alam
  3. Gartner names Veeam a LEADER in NEW 2017 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup & Recovery
  4. It’s official: Veeam is the undisputed industry leader in customer satisfaction
  5. Druva introduces Data Management as a Service and launches Druva Cloud Platform
  6. Office 365 Update for August 2017
  7. Reignite your firewall
  8. VMworld 2017: Day 1 Keynote
  9. NSX Announcements at VMworld 2017
  10. Backup in VMware Cloud on AWS?

Learn How To Protect Your PC from Ransomware attacks – What’s Next

Dear Value Customers,

Good day, you are cordially invited to Learn How To Protect Your PC from Ransomware attacks – What’s Next event happening on below time and venue.

Date: 23 May 2017 (Tuesday)
Time: 9:30am to 1:30pm
Venue: Pullman Hotel (Room Eight, Level 13)
4, Jalan Conlay, 50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/BDsttehY9ev 

Remarks: Breakfast and Lunch will be served 

Kindly RSVP at http://bit.ly/acercentraleu and stand a chance to get an Acer Switch Alpha 12 at Special Price!

HPE and Veeam Solution Day 2017

Dear Valued Customer,

It gives us great pleasure to invite you to a HPE & Veeam Solution Day 2017 session. The event is scheduled to be held on Thursday, 23rd March 2017 from 10.00am till 2.00pm. We extend the invitation to our valued customer to showcase the value propositions of Veeam Availability Always On Enterprise and HPE Hyper Converged IT Strategy.

Date: 23 Mar 2017 (Thu)
Time: 10:00AM-2:00PM
Venue: LANCELOT TEA-GUILD
5A, Nadayu 28 Dagang, Jalan PJS11/7,
Bandar Sunway 47620 Subang Jaya Selangor

Why Attend?

  • Learn how to capitalize on your existing Virtualization, Networking, Storage and Backup investments
  • Discover the latest Hyper Converged Technologies and IT Strategy
  • Discover Veeam Availability Always On Enterprise
  • Lucky Draw 

Who must attend?

  • CIO
  • Senior IT Manager/IT Manager
  • IT Systems Administrator
  • IT Executive
  • IT System Engineer

Register Now!


 

Happy Rooster Year 2017

Dear Valued Customers/Partners,
 
Please be informed that our company will be closed from 27th Jan (Friday) to 1st Feb (Wednesday) in conjunction with the Chinese New Year celebration.
 
We will resume normal operation on 2nd Feb 2017 (Thursday).
 
We would like to wish all a Happy Chinese New Year, may the year of Rooster bring you Peace, Happiness, Good Fortune & Prosperity.
 
From: 
Management & Staffs of CLL SYSTEMS Sdn Bhd 

Back to Basic – Backup!

Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their system, either by locking the system’s screen or by locking the users’ files unless a ransom is paid. More modern ransomware families, collectively categorized as crypto-ransomware, encrypt certain file types on infected systems and forces users to pay the ransom through certain online payment methods to get a decrypt key.

When faced with a Ransomware attack the current wisdom is if your computer gets infected and it encrypts your files you have three basic options:

  1. Pay the ransom
  2. Restore from a backup
  3. Cut your losses and format your computer

Typically, paying the ransom is never recommended, mainly because it does not guarantee to solve your problem. In addition, if the ransom is paid, it proves to the cyber-criminals that ransomware is effective. As a result, cyber-criminals will continue their activity and look for new ways to exploit systems that result in more infections and more money on their accounts.

Obviously, I would strongly recommend “backup” (back to basic) as best option and bear in mind that you have backup doesn’t mean you’re protected from ransomware however you’ll get your data back assuming restoration goes well.

Using Backup practical tips to recover from Ransomware.

  1. Using 3-2-1 rule (The 3-2-1 rule states to have three different copies of your media, on two different media, one of which is off-site. This is great because it can address nearly any failure scenario and doesn’t require any specific technology. In the ransomware era, it’s a good idea to add another “1” to the rule where one of the media is offline. The offline storage options listed above highlighted a number of options where you can implement an offline or semi-offline copy of the data)
  2. Backup to Disk, Tape (Typically you MUST define your RPO & RTO. It’s important to understand what your RPO/RTO is and how much data you could stand to lose if you were hit with ransomware and had to recover from your backup.
  3. Backup to Cloud or Replicate to offsite (Replication is no longer a luxury — it’s part of your Availability strategy. Veeam’s 2-in-1: backup and replication™ provides you with a copy of your virtual machine (VM) in a ready-to-start state, so if a VM goes down, you can immediately fail over to a standby VM)
  4. Veeam Backup Copy (The Veeam Backup Copy Job is a great mechanism to have restore points created on different storage and with different retention rules than the regular backup job. When the previous points above are incorporated, the backup copy job can be a valuable mechanism in a ransomware situation because there are different restore points in use with the Backup Copy Job)
  5. Azure Backup (Unified solution to protect data on-premises and in the cloud)
  6. Test you Backup (With SureBackup® and SureReplica,With Veeam SureBackup, Veeam SureReplica there’s no need to worry about recoverability because it is all tested! Guarantees recovery of every file, application or virtual server, every time by running automated recovery verification jobs)

Back to Basic – Backup! Backup! Backup! Use Backup to recover from Ransomware! Contact us today if you need any help for “Protection” and “Recovery” from Ransomware.

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