how to implement disaster recovery in the cloud

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Recovery in the Cloud

HOW TO IMPLEMENT A DR STRATEGY THAT WORKS



Meet the Presenter

Pat O’Day Chief Technology Officer Bluelock @ODayP

@Bluelock | www.bluelock.com @Bluelock | www.bluelock.com

•  Why DR in the Cloud?

•  How to Implement RaaS

•  Use Cases for RaaS

•  Q&A

Topics Covered


About Bluelock

•  Leading cloud IaaS and RaaS provider since 2006, based fully on VMware

•  Strong and proven service mentality – Track record of successfully serving clients

with variety of enterprise cloud use cases •  Strategic VMware partner •  Customer-focused innovation

–  Listen to customer needs and all R&D is focused on the cloud


Bluelock Differentiators

VMware Focus Secure, compatible and familiar

Visibility and Transparency Better decisions, manage risk

Stratified Delivery Models Best fit for each workload

-  Evolution Platform options -  Managed Services -  Support tiering

-  Bluelock Portfolio™

-  Predictive algorithms -  Encourage better behavior

Virtual Datacenters Security, with agility and control

-  Business unit autonomy -  Resource re-allocation -  Centralized governance

-  vCloud Datacenter Provider -  Strong strategic alignment -  100% pure and focused


Bluelock Virtual

Datacenters Architecture

How RaaS fits in

Sub-Brand Variations Sub-Brands Parent

Brand Master Brand

Bluelock Bluelock Virtual

Datacenters

5-Series

5000

5100

5125

5200

2-Series 2000

4-Series (RaaS)

4004

4504

4508


WHY DR IN THE CLOUD? WHY NOW?


Your Risk and Impact Has Changed •  Disasters (natural and man-made) are increasing •  Businesses are becoming more reliant on

technology, making IT more important than ever

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Cloud is More Prevalent Than Ever According to Gartner, IaaS is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 37.8% through 2017

Gartner Forecast Overview: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 1Q13 Update. 03 May 2013.

TOP 5 MOTIVATORS FOR ADOPTING CLOUD

Source: IBM


Improvements in Replication Technology

•  Low Barriers to Entry •  Improved Recovery Quality •  Testability, Ease of Use •  SAN Agnostic •  100% Software-based •  Application-aware…


Application Recovery

•  Virtual Protection Groups (VPG)

•  RTO and RPO •  Consistency •  Boot Order •  Recovery Points


Choose Your Recovery Point •  You are not limited to recovering from just the latest instance •  Choose from recovery points prior to the disaster, allowing

peace of mind that you’ll bring back your workload from a non-corrupted state


Zero Footprint, Extremely Efficient

•  Replicates at the hypervisor level: –  No agent installation or

rebooting of applications to get up and running

–  No rework of the application required

Don’t force your app to fit the DR. Choose DR that fits the app.


What’s Stopping You?

•  If the world is a scarier place and you’re more at risk and new DR solutions are more compelling—why aren’t you doing this? – Not a priority – DR is too expensive – Connecting to the cloud is complex – Cloud is still scary – Not in our skill set to plan and manage DR


HOW TO IMPLEMENT A DR STRATEGY THAT WORKS


To-Cloud RaaS

bluelock.com/cloud-services/raas/to-cloud-dr/


To-Cloud RaaS Use Case #1: Education

•  Did not have a cloud strategy, RaaS was first foray into cloud – Keeping existing datacenter for most workloads

•  High-risk location for hurricanes •  Needed aggressive RTO/RPO for

production apps •  Couldn’t fit DR into budget based on

traditional warm-site model; highly cost sensitive


To-Cloud RaaS Use Case #2: Financial and Healthcare

•  Compliance-sensitive workloads •  Was backing up to cloud but moved to

RaaS for better application protection – Needed RaaS to backup cloud assets, with

automation (efficiency) •  More aggressive RTO/RPO to return

production apps to service quickly, meet requirements


In-Cloud RaaS

bluelock.com/cloud-services/raas/in-cloud-dr/


In-Cloud RaaS Use Case #1: Software

•  Production SaaS app currently running in the cloud

•  Needed to protect the application from disruption because it’s a primary revenue source

•  DR was expensive, but RaaS offered the value and efficient pricing that made protection possible


In-Cloud RaaS Use Case #2: Technology

•  Production SaaS app hosted in the cloud •  Concerns over data corruption (SQL and

software updates) •  Protected by consistency groups and

recovery points •  Easy testing—it had to work!


From-Cloud RaaS


Achieve a More Effective DR Footprint



EARTHQUAKE



HURRICANE



BROWN OUT



DATA CORRUPTION


Disrupting Existing DR Solutions

Cold Site Comparison RTO RPO Relative Cost

Traditional “Cold site” Approach days 24 hours 25%

Bluelock RaaS (In-Cloud or To-Cloud) ≤8 hours ≤4 hours 35%

Way Better! Similar

Warm Site Comparison RTO RPO Relative Cost

Traditional “Warm site” Approach ≤4 hours 30 minutes 95%

Bluelock 4004 VDC (To-Cloud) ≤4 hours 30 minutes 40%

Similar Way Better!


Budgeting for RaaS

•  During replication: – 100% of storage cost – 100% of replication network traffic – 20% of CPU – 20% RAM – Pay-as-you-go software licenses

•  During testing/failover:


Comparing Recovery and Testing Costs

DR INFRASTRUCTURE COST


Comparing Recovery and Testing Costs TOTAL DR COST


Comparing Recovery and Testing Costs

TOTAL DR COST


Understand RaaS Costs Bluelock Portfolio


Timeframes for interim milestones are for illustration only and will depend on customer specific criteria.

RaaS Planning

Week 1 Month 6Week 4 Week 8 Month 3

Implementation

Review

Kickoff call with Professional Services (1hr)

Implementation objectives complete

Professional Services Year End Review

Customer receives welcome pack and RaaS Questionnaire

Engagement

Creation of client specific ‘Recovery Runbook’

Implementation/Login Access Granted 1st Recovery Test

Customer OperationalFull Access to Portfolio, Bluelock Support

Customer engages Bluelock when ready 2nd Recovery Test


Testing and Declaration Self-service or Managed Service


Failback

•  Declaration – Full production workload brought online in

remote datacenter •  Reverse Replication and Failback

– Only changes are replicated back to primary site

– Scheduled and coordinated return to primary datacenter


Application Recovery Assessment

Interested in a complimentary Application Recovery Assessment?

– Weigh the risk level of applications against the value of the cost of continuity

Request your assessment today

– Contact [email protected] – Call 888-402-2583 (BLUE)


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