DisasterPrevention and Recovery

C-Level Initiatives

Potential Solution?

ProactiveReal Time

Network Monitoring

ReactiveBackup

and Disaster Recovery

Real Solutions for Real Needs!

What’s the Cost?(Gartner research)

•Most Businesses that experience a major loss of data go out of business.–43% never reopen

–51 % fail within 24 months.

•What defines a “Major Loss”–E-Mail -- Compliance Data

–Loss of accounting data -- Employee Records

–Client Files -- Contracts

E-Mail vulnerability(Dell research)

•75% of all companies are expected to have a major e-mail outage

•14% of all companies will experience an unplanned outage

•More than 55% of all unplanned outages will last 6 hours or more – When will it happen?

•41% of all companies experience monthly e-mail outages lasting at least 30 minutes

Consequences of loss range greatly(Dell research)

•Health Care Provider lost $3 Million during an 8 hour outage

•Law Firm confirmed losing $100,000 per hour for a 4 hour outage

•5 Financial Firms were fined a total of $8.25 Million for e-mail failures

Business Continuity Solutions

Causes of Catastrophic Data LossNatural Disaster• Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Micro-bursts

• Floods & Infrastructure Failures

• Fires

• Lightning

• Power Surges

Man-made Disaster• Viruses, Mal-Spyware

• Theft, external & internal

• Hardware damaged

• Software corrupted

• Human error

Are You Ready?

Causes of Catastrophic Data Loss

1. Cost of IT System failure far exceeds the cost of repair & recovery

a) Lost receivables

b) Employee time to re-enter data

c) Financial performance penalties levied by regulatory agencies or contract SLAs

d) $20 Million annual revenue equates to $10,000 per hour of lost productivity – without penalties!

*It is not IF the system breaks, but WHEN

A 1,000 Foot View

Network Operations Center

Secondary Data Center Primary Data Center

Solution Details

1. A Microsoft Windows Server only - no desktops a) Set up network shares for critical desktop info

2. A NAS is required at each end-client location3. Block Level Backups vs. File-level

a) Eliminates costly backup software and agents.4. Incremental Forever Methodology-near real-time

backup (every 15 minutes). 5. Security -256 AES Encryption on NAS and off-site

Restoration1. Restoration

a) Include all servers with critical data or used for remote access

2. Data available for restorationa) Applicationsb) File foldersc) Data filesd) SQL Databasee) Exchange Databasef) Individual e-mail messages

Virtualization

1. Bare metal virtualization on dissimilar hardware2. No need to keep array of different format tape drives for

restoration of archived data3. Conversion from backup to virtual server in 20 minutes4. In the event of catastrophe, data is accessible via virtual

machine until a new network is made available. Data can be restored by imaging the BDR at the data center and shipped overnight to your location

5. For security purposes, your data will never be hosted, only stored at the co-location facility. Encryption without the key, is not accessible

Data Tape Issues1. Costly backup software2. Loss of Data

a) Tapes not taken off-siteb) Lost Tapesc) System not checked to see if backups are workingd) Will not backup open files

3. Lengthy data restores4. Tape incompatibility with archived data –Legacy equipment5. Disk is cheap –Tape Systems are not

a) Modern server disk capacity has outgrown tape capabilities