Cloud Based Disaster Recovery and Technologies Driving it Janson B. Hoambrecker

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1 Cloud Based Disaster Recovery and Technologies Driving it Janson B. Hoambrecker Director, WW Cloud Incubation Services I365, A Seagate Company

2 Disaster Recovery In The Cloud Recover critical applications after a site disaster Applications run within the cloud Secure access provided to applications and resources Distributed across geographic risk zones On-Premise Applications Virtual Machines and Storage In The Cloud Failover Backups or Replicas

3 Building Out a Co-location / Hosting Site is Resource Intensive Capital investment in duplicate equipment, storage and software for secondary site Installation and configuration of the production applications with data replication Manpower to create and test DR plan Ongoing maintenance for the secondary site upgrades, patches, license renewals, storage expansions Travel usually required at time of DR

4 Tape-Based DR Continues to be Painful The Process Limitations Subject to theft, loss, natural disaster Store tapes in warehouse Extract tapes Transport to DR location Rebuild tape library Catalog tapes for restores Recover data Access data Data unencrypted Tapes may be lost or stolen in transit Time required to transport Time required to build tape server, library and catalog set of tapes Unreliable recoveries Lost/damaged? No recourse Users go to recovery center Unreliable. Inefficient. Not secure.

5 Why Change Now? Ability to better identify, measure, and quantify risk to establish ROI We have a better understanding of the economic impact of disasters and events Industry regulations related to BC/DR Lower tolerance for downtime and data loss

6 Adopters of Cloud Disaster Recovery Enjoy Faster Recovery Times Time to Resolve Downtime Events Use Cloud Storage for DR Does Not Use Cloud Storage for DR Source: Aberdeen Group, October 2010 What Functions are Currently using Public Cloud? Backup, at 76%, is the storage function moved most to the public cloud, followed by disaster recovery/business continuity (70%), file archiving (68%) and archiving (65%); primary data storage is next, at 34%. - Storage Newsletter, July 2011 Are Ahead of the Game At least 40% of the midsize businesses that have developed an internal disaster recovery site during the past two years will migrate to a cloud-based site by Gartner Group, October 2010

7 Technology Shifts Make Cloud DR a Reality Make data transfer fast and reliable with Disk Backup [Using the old tape system] whenever we did full backups, they would run through the weekend and into the following week. One time we had to recover a particular set of s. It took us about a week to do that it was ugly. Make machine provisioning easy with Virtualization Repeatable Almost instantaneous Hardware independent Automation Make adoption feasible with Cloud Security Multi-tenancy Security of data in transit and at rest in the cloud Secure authentication and access control Make Cloud DR reliable with RaaS packaged consulting Assess, plan, implement, test, document - Carlos Miro, VP, Technology and CIO of Tropical Financial Credit Union

8 Server Virtualization: More Than Cost Savings Are cost savings from improved hardware utilization, smaller data center footprint, and leaner utility bills driving your server virtualization project? You are selling yourself short! Yes. There are cost efficiencies to be achieved with server virtualization. But sustained efficiencies come from the flexibility and agility that virtualization technology offers.

9 Virtualization Easier Disaster Recovery Traditional DR Doubles hardware requirements Building physical servers takes hours Manual process for server builds Virtualization Allow for hardware duplication Able to provision environment in minutes VM templates allow for fast repeatable process Updating configuration takes hours and is very manual Updating configuration takes minutes Typically only test a couple servers to test overall process due to time constraint Able to test all systems as provisioning and hardware requirements are far less

10 Cloud Security & Compliance Encryption NIST AES 256-bit Data in transit Data at rest in the cloud Multi-tenancy Authentication & access control Compliance with SAS-70 Type II controls Ironclad security. Multiple levels of protection

11 One Size Does Not Fit All Not every organization is ready to commit to a complete cloud-connected SaaS solution Some workloads pose stricter requirements for business continuity and availability. Look at your compliance mandates Some require information to be stored and managed onsite. Organizational or legal disaster recovery policies may dictate the speed of recovery Varies depending on workload. Capital budgeting requirements may pose limitations on what workloads can be pushed into the cloud.

12 Thank You! Janson Hoambrecker i365.com