firehost webinar: 6 must have tools for disaster prevention

The Six Must Have ToolsFor Business Continuity

September 12th 2013

Featured Customer: Cory von Wallenstein (CTO, Dyn)

Presenter: Todd Gleason (Director of Technology, FireHost)

Agenda

• Introductions

• Defining Disaster Prevention and Business Continuity

• Prevention is Better than Recovery

• Hot/Cold – Hot/Warm – Hot/Hot

• Dyn – The Leader in DNS

• The Six Must Have Tools for Business Continuity

• Preconfigured Solutions

• Your Questions Answered

Submit your questions throughout the talk via chat. We’ll address them live at the end or follow up offline

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Director of Technology

Introductions

Todd Gleason Cory von WallensteinChief Technology Officer

What is Disaster Prevention?

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The art of avoiding a disaster by

removing risk with an infrastructure

designed for resiliency and redundancy

/diˈzastər/ /priˈvenCHən/Disaster Prevention

• Types of Disasters

Prevention is Better Than Recovery

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• What is your recovery time objective (RTO)?

SECURITY COMPLIANCE SALES & MARKETING

Hot / Cold

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• Longest RTO (Basic needs for continuity)

• Typically a single server to store backups

• File/database backups are shipped and stored regularly

Primary Infrastructure File/Database Backups

Regular Backups

Hot / Warm

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• Medium RTO (a few minutes to a few hours)

• Allows for limited availability if primary fails

• Replicated production environments with lower resources

Regular Replication

Primary Infrastructure Standby Infrastructure

Hot / Hot

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• Maximum failure resistance(The gold standard)

• Typically two or more production environments

• Isolated data centers with full data replication

Real-Time Replication

Full InfrastructureGeographic Location 1

Full InfrastructureGeographic Location 2

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The Dyn Story

Greater customization and flexibility for every recovery time objective

The Six Must Have Tools

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High Availability

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• Hardware redundancy in case of component failure

• Very helpful but not entire infrastructure

Failed Hardware New Hardware

Data Transfer

Load Balancers

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• Eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks

• Balance incoming traffic between multiple servers

Load Balancers Load Balancers

DNS Management (Dyn)

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• Direct all traffic at the DNS level

• Multiple solutions to fit your RTO

Global Redundancy

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• Single-site vs. multi-site configurations

• Geographic diversity for the utmost in redundancy

Geographic Location 1 Geographic Location 2 Geographic Location 3

Scheduled Scale

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• Plan resource increases/decreases to meet demand

• Maximize budget and performance

FluidScale™

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• Add resources on-demand without a reboot

• Works with all FireHost scaling methods

Over Provisioned Over ProvisionedHorizontal Vertical

Resources on DemandVertical

VS

FluidScale

Preconfigured Solutions

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• Easy and fast solution deployment

• Can be customized to fit any RTO

• Learn more at firehost.com/disaster-prevention

Thank YouLet’s review the questions

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