Disaster Recovery in the Clouda provider’s view

IT DR is only a small part of Business Continuity Planning! “an unnecessary cost and extra headache” is it a real problem?

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Windsor Tower, Madrid February 2005 IT staff downloading files during the fire

BCP Budgets expected to increase by 38% in the next two years

There has been a significant reduction in some elements of testing

Regulatory Oversight is now the number 1 BCP challenge

Off-site data centre space or hosting has become the norm

25% of companies use the cloud, 25% plan to and 50% have no plan to!

Key Survey Points re IT Systems

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Factors causing reluctance to move production workloads to the cloud:

Confusion Complexity Security

Performance

Cost

Our experience with cloud

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Disaster Recovery is perceived to be, and is, a low-risk way to test the waters of outsourced cloud environments.

2016, 20% of midsize enterprises will have adopted DRaaS to support the recovery of their IT operations (Gartner, 2013) – Why?

Virtualised environments mean infrastructure is irrelevant

Scalable as-a-service, resource-based consumption models

Portable DR and production components that integrate - flexible platforms

Potential for regular, non-disruptive testing

multiple design options, public, private and hybrid

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The evolution of DR solutions

Conventional DR

Cloud-based DR

less cost, better RTOs, more automation

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Improved Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) means less business risk

Seamless, end user performance and experience

Flexible investment – solutions can be expanded for production

Less cost, with:

Reserved, on-demand, compute resources and shared/smart storage provisioning

Improved management, monitoring and testing of DR implementations

…and real-life business benefits

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IT DR marketplace is a land full of false promises

Testing the DR solution is hugely important!

There is no such thing as a commodity DR service

Real Engagement between the customer and the DR cloud provider is the most important “component” of the solution, so as to understand the customer’s business drivers and produce the right design

Work with a cloud provider who can prove and reference their solutions i.e. a provider that you can Trust

Lessons learned

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Advertising Standards Authority

Berrymans Lace Mawer

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Financial Software Ltd

Guardian Media Group

Impax Asset Management

Majedie Asset Management

DR in the Cloud is real

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