Disaster Recovery and the Cloud

Jason Dea

Product Marketing Manager

September 2011

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Agenda

The need for disaster recovery (DR)

Cloud computing overview

Virtualization and disaster recovery

PlateSpin® Protect and PlateSpin Forge®

The Need for Disaster Recovery

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Why Downtime Matters

*September 2, 2010 , Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are top IT Priorities for 2010 and 2011 - Forrester

Total economic damage from disaster in 2009*

Economic impact felt in the U.S. from disasters in 2009*

$10.8 Billion

$41.3 Billion

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Becoming a Priority

• Better able to identify and quantify risk

• Better understanding of economic impact

• Less tolerance for downtime and data loss

of enterprises have indicated that improving disaster recovery capabilities is a high priority*

78% Critical Priority 30% - High Priority 48%

*Jan. 25, 2010 – The State of Enterprise IT: 2009 to 2010 - Forrester

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Define Your Objectives

• Time between declaration and service availability

• Time to restore services to useable state

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

• Data in system lost at disaster time• Amount of data entered since last backup

Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

• Time required to test recovery plans• Resources used for testing

Test Time Objective (TTO)

Cloud Computing Overview

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From a Big Box to a Big Cloud

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Defining Cloud Characterstics

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The Cloud Stack

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Your cloud, my cloud

• Public Scalable and elastic computing services offered to external

customers via the Internet.

Typically multi-tenant, where multiple customers are able to share a single set of resources.

• Private Dynamic and scalable computer services offered to internal

customers using equipment the customer owns and delivered over a private network.

Traditional Approaches to DR

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Backup Your Data

• Focus is on protecting data– Tape backup

– Imaging

• Poor performance– Slow RTO, RPO (days)

• Hidden costs– How do we get the data back

in to a useable state?

– How long to rebuild server?

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Double Infrastructure

• Focus is on protecting application

– Clustering

– Like-for-like infrastructure

• Performance, but at what price?

– Near-zero RTO, RPO

• High cost– Duplicate infrastructure

– Management complexity

Virtualize Disaster Recovery

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Bridging the Gap

• Fast RTO and RPO• Duplicate resources• Costly and complex

• Slow RTO and RPO• Over commitment of recovery resources

Duplication Backup

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Consolidated Recovery

Solution

• Replicate workload into an offline virtual machine

• One-click failover

• One-click test restore

• Flexible failback

Virtual production servers

Virtual recovery hosts

Physical production servers

Physical production servers

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Protect to the Cloud

Virtual production servers

Hosted Virtual Recovery Hosts

Physical production servers

Wide Area Network

PlateSpin® DR Products

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PlateSpin® Protect

Backup to virtual machines

Incrementalreplication

Whole-workload protection for all server workloads.

Easy to testOne-click

failover

Physicalservers

Virtualhosts

Bladeservers

Imagearchives

Workload decoupledfrom hardware

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PlateSpin Forge®

Protects up to 25 workloads

PlateSpin Forge includes:• Storage• Replication software• Hypervisor

Plug-in and protect solution for :• Medium enterprises• Branch use for large enterprises

World’s first disaster recovery hardware appliance with virtualization

Building a Protection Cloud

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Site A

Build a Recovery Cloud

Site B Site C

PlateSpin Protect

Virtual Resources

= PlateSpin Protect + Virtual Resources

Recovery Cloud

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Recovery Cloud

Setup Workload Replications

Replicate every hour (1h RPO)

Scheduled replications: Workload changes are automatically replicated into virtual machines inside the Recovery Cloud

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Recovery Cloud

Easy Test Failover

Test Failover: recover workloads in isolated virtual networks to avoid production disruptions

Users connect to running workloads to test their applications

Isolated Virtual Network

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Recovery Cloud

Recover Workloads In Minutes

Offline Detection: PlateSpin Protect sends out notification when the protected workload goes offline

Failover: Workloads are recovered in minutes inside the Recovery Cloud

Users connect to workloads running in the Recovery Cloud

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Recovery Cloud

Restore the Production Environment

Failback: move the workload back into production to the same or a different host

Virtual or Physical Host

Solution Flexibility

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On-Premise

Production Data Center

Service Provider

Data Center

Administrator

Recovery Resources

WANProtected Workloads

Protect Node Protect Management

Console

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Virtual Private Cloud

Customer Data Center

Service Provider

Data Center

Administrator

Recovery ResourcesWAN

Protected Workloads

Protect Node

Protect Management Console

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Hybrid Model

Customer Data Center

Service Provider

Data Center

Administrator

WANProtect Node

Protect Management Console

Protect Node

Protected Workloads

Protected Workloads

Recovery Resources

Recovery Resources

Real World Results

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Customer Successes

Nichols College

“Disaster recovery solutions can be very complex ... PlateSpin Forge is very straightforward. There’s just one piece of hardware to manage. It’s low maintenance, and has low overhead. Without it, we certainly would have spent more money on another disaster recovery solution that would have required more resources to support it.”

http://www.novell.com/success/nichols_college.html

Reed Smith LLP

"With PlateSpin Protect, we can recover multiple sites with the same set of hardware quite easily, in a matter of minutes."

http://www.novell.com/success/reed_smith.html

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Thank you.

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