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In this 60-minute webinar workshop, Bluelock CTO Pat O’Day will use four real-life scenarios to help you modernize your approach to DR and backups. O’Day will showcase how you can leverage tools like continuous data protection, cloud elasticity and pay-as-you-go pricing to get better, more reliable protection for your application at a more compelling price point.
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Modern Disaster Recovery Workshop
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Taking action to protect and recover your applications and data
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Welcome
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Pat O’DayChief Technology Officer,
Bluelock (@odayP)
• Chat your questions to Anne and we’ll answer the majority at the end, during Q&A. We’ll answer a few throughout the presentation as well.
• This webinar is being recorded. We will email you the recorded presentation and slides in a few days.
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IT Challenges and Opportunities
Top 5 Challenges Facing IT1 Opportunity for Success
Developing a cloud strategy Faster transition and migration to cloud with tailored application approach
Modernizing legacy applications Insightful tools and experienced staff lower complex application hosting risks
Finding and retaining IT talent Work with providers who can deepen your team bench strength and expertise
Datacenter space, power and cooling On-demand resources avoid stair step purchasing and long time to value
Modernizing backup and recovery Access to new, modern capabilities increase reliability of recovery
31 Gartner Cloud, Modernization and Staffing Challenges Top I&O Leader Concerns, Mike Chuba and Dave Russell, 20 February 2014.
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Insights from the field
• Lesson 1 – Risk of prolonged outages and data loss is real and growing
• Lesson 2 – Traditional methods are not effective for modern businesses
• Lesson 3 - IT disaster risk is still hard to explain to the business
• Lesson 4 - DR projects are hard to prioritize (relative to KTLO)
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Disasters on the Rise• Disasters (natural and man-made) are increasing
• Businesses are becoming more reliant on technology, making IT more important than ever
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Source: http://www.fema.gov/disasters/grid/year
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Flood Hail
Thunderstorm High Winds
Ice Storms
Philadelphia 1086 674 2641 Ice:5
Cincinnati 869 957 2352 Ice:31Nashville 545 963 2330 Ice:9Louisville 582 827 2106 Ice:11New York 1281 561 2027 Ice:9Kansas City 1869 8179 6045 Ice:63Dallas 871 2660 2657 Drought:52
Atlanta 236 1970 2204 Tropical:14
Seattle 34 11 11 Earthquake:41
Portland 61 34 35 Volcanos:10
Vegas 108 51 121 0
Indy 481 1269 2562 11/0/0Source: USA.com Natural Disasters and Weather Extremes by City
Natural Disasters and Weather Extremes
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Human Error is the Biggest Cause of IT Disasters
Survey analysis of key factors that
cause major SME IT incidents and service failures
Continuitycentral.com; 17, November 2011. http://www.continuitycentral.com/news06032.html
Power/Com-munication
Failure15%
Fire/Flood, "Acts of God"
9%
Human Error47%
Server Failure
29%
KEY FACTORS CAUSING FAILURE
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How effective is DR today?
Do Not Have a Full DR Plan Don’t Test their DR Plan
DR Plan didn’t work Don’t Pass their DR Tests
60% 23%
40% 65%
All statistics courtesy of: “The State of Global Disaster Recovery Preparedness: Annual Report 2014.” Published by the Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council, 2014.
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Traditional approaches are ineffective
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Cold SitePrimary Location
Traditional Approach 1 – Cold site
Data backed up infrequently
May take days to re-assemble applications
(if it works at all)
Recovery LocationPrimary Location
$$$$ $
Traditional Approach 2 – Frugal warm site
Insufficient or depreciated resources
provide only partial return to service Additional resources
can take days or weeks to arrive
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Building 3Building 1
One event may impact both datacenters
Traditional Approach 3 – Local hot site
Far awayBuilding 1
Very expensive use of capital and talent$$$$ $$$$
Traditional Approach 4 – Hot site (Expensive)
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$$$$ $$$$
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Helping othersunderstand the risks is
challenging
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“Rockstar” a DR simulator
• For each round:oDefine the situation:
Draw One Event Card Draw One Downtime Card Draw One Impact Card
oTry to recover from the event: Draw Two Asset Cards, discard Draw Two Challenge Cards, discard
• Victory conditions:oReduce the downtime to zero or lessoReduce the downtime enough to
meet the business requirements stated on the impact card
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Simulating a disaster
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Physical event
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Logical event
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F5 Networks
Solution: Two production Bluelock VDC5125 (East/West)o Data is replicated in real time using SQL replication from the F5
Vegas 5125VDC to a second VDC5125 hosted in Indyo Application recovery time is estimated to be less than one minute
leveraging F5 Application Traffic Management solutionso Failover is fully automated
IndyVegas
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Users
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Application recovery
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Mission critical
Business critical
Production
prioritization worksheet
Minutes
Hours
Days
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Malicious event
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Solution: tw telecom eLynk & Bluelock RaaS VDC4004• Data is replicated in near real time from the Goodwill Indy colo
facility in Indianapolis to Bluelock Vegas• Application recovery time is estimated to be less than one hour
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Vegastw telecom
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Customers
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Human event
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VPN or Private
Bluelock
Your Datacenter
Cloud for Disaster
Recovery
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Failover Process During an Event
Continuous Data Replication
via Ethernet connection
with Dynamic Capacity
Retail Stores
HQ
tw telecomMPLS Network
Normal ConditionsDuring an Event
90+ locations
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Failback Process After an Event
Continuous Data Replication
via Ethernet connection
with Dynamic Capacity
Retail Stores
30+ locations
tw telecomMPLS Network
Normal ConditionsDuring an Event
HQ
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Protection is Re-established
Continuous Data Replication
via Ethernet connection
with Dynamic Capacity
Retail Stores
HQ
30+ locations
tw telecomMPLS Network
Normal Conditions
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Taking the first steps forward
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Continuing Education
If you aren’t familiar with RaaS, we recommend the following introductory webcasts for the basics:
View at: http://www.bluelock.com/resources/webcasts/
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Bluelock RaaS Training
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Tell us how we did
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