• HPE and Chunghwa Telecom Enterprise Business Group jointly announce plans to establish an international disaster recovery center. This center utilizes HPE’s Cyber Resilience Vault, featuring advanced ransomware protection and cyber and disaster recovery technologies.
• Chunghwa Telecom now offers this new disaster recovery capability through its Internet Data Center Value-Added Services – Equipment Subscription Service, providing virtual machines with reliable, enterprise-grade protection.
• The HPE Cyber Resilience Vault integrates HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, HPE ProLiant Compute servers, HPE Zerto’s disaster recovery technology, and HPE Networking wireless and wired network solutions.

Taipei, Taiwan – HPE (NYSE: HPE) and Chunghwa Telecom Enterprise Business Group jointly announce plans to establish an international disaster recovery center. This center utilizes HPE’s Cyber Resilience Vault, featuring advanced ransomware protection and cyber and disaster recovery technologies. The purpose is to help local businesses build a global off-site backup mechanism with a second-level Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and minute-level Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). Moreover, the Center can ensure local businesses leverage Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for faster recovery and stronger cyber resilience against ransomware attacks.

According to the  "Large-Scale Ransomware and Disaster Recovery" Recovery" whitepaper¹ by IDC in August 2024, businesses globally experience an average of 4.2 data disruption incidents annually, causing IT intervention that includes an average of 1 ransomware attack. The IDC report also found that 48% of the businesses, despite having backups, choose to pay ransoms in hopes of accelerating recovery or reducing data loss. However, only 20% of those successfully recover their complete data.

These results highlight that ransomware remains a persistent threat. Even significant investments in backup infrastructure do not guarantee complete data protection. Therefore, businesses must proactively adopt comprehensive “defense strategies” to prevent and mitigate attacks. Businesses need to establish fast, scalable data protection mechanisms to ensure real-time detection, response, and rapid recovery at the first sign of an attack.

"The IDC report highlights ransomware as a major threat to businesses of all sizes, making it a priority for local IT leaders in Taiwan," said Jon Wang, Managing Director of Taiwan and Hong Kong, HPE.

"The HPE Cyber Resilience Vault, integrated with Chunghwa Telecom's Internet Data Center services, helps businesses recover quickly, minimize downtime, and restore lost data within seconds, ensuring full protection and backup of confidential information."

"To prevent ransomware attacks from causing significant damage to businesses, we are here to assist Taiwanese enterprises build and plan on-premises backup mechanisms," said Pen-Yuang Chang, General Manager of Chunghwa Telecom Enterprise Business Group. "Through our collaboration with HPE, Chunghwa Telecom can enable local businesses to implement cross-border, cross-regional, and bi-directional cloud-to-ground disaster recovery mechanisms, effectively strengthening their cyber resilience and international competitiveness."

Chunghwa Telecom now offers this new disaster recovery capability through its Internet Data Center Value-Added Services – Equipment Subscription Service, providing virtual machines with reliable, enterprise-grade protection. Beyond backing up mission-critical workloads to Chunghwa Telecom’s resilient IDC sites, the disaster recovery center delivers full data restoration for compromised virtual machines and supports regular disaster-recovery drills so organizations can validate readiness long before an incident strikes. Chunghwa Telecom also plans to introduce a DRaaS model priced by the number of protected virtual machines, giving customers a more flexible and scalable way to align backup and recovery resources with their business needs.

One of Taiwan’s leading petrochemical manufacturers has already deployed the joint solution to safeguard sensitive operational data. By replicating critical plant information into Chunghwa Telecom’s professional data center and leveraging HPE’s continuous data protection, the customer established a resilient recovery mechanism that sharply reduces cybersecurity risk and operational disruption. Since implementation, the company reports lower day-to-day maintenance burden, greater confidence in meeting recovery objectives, and the assurance that its most essential data is protected by a dedicated team of specialists.

The HPE Cyber Resilience Vault integrates HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, HPE ProLiant Compute servers, HPE Zerto’s disaster recovery technology, and HPE Networking wireless and wired network solutions. Built on a decentralized, zero-trust architecture, it creates an air-gapped, isolated data vault with immutable, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)-compliant storage. Its journal-based continuous data protection enables near-synchronous replication, tracking real-time checkpoints every 5 to 10 seconds with second-level RPO and minute-level RTO recovery. Deployed in Chunghwa Telecom Internet Data Center’s satellite data centers, the solution enhances immediate malware recovery, reducing RPO from hours to seconds and accelerating service recovery from days to minutes.