Five Tips for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
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Whether natural disasters or manmade errors are the cause, outages and failures are a part of IT reality. But business continuity plans are anything but “set and forget.” With data volumes growing 40% annually, applications becoming more complex, and changing infrastructure economics, what worked for you two years ago may not be ideal anymore. With SteelStore, you can reduce the time spent managing data protection environments, the overall costs of protecting data, and the data volume offsite – all by 80%.
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Data is growing 40% Huma
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Natural Disaste
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Downtime
Intolerance
Business continuity and disaster recovery planning is a constant balancing act…
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Data is
growing
40%Human error
Natural
Disaster
Downtime
Intolerance
Business continuity and disaster recovery planning is a constant balancing act…
Riverbed can help
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Jefferies avoids disruption
Industry: Capital Markets
“Using the NetFlow data we had collected [with SteelCentral], we were able to determine where the dependencies are… We knew everything that would be impacted by physically
lifting this server and moving it to it’s new resting place.”
• Successful data center migration
• Proactive management of issues
RESULT
• Complex data center migration
• Limited visibility into interdependencies
CHALLENGE
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Bill Barrett accelerates recovery
Industry: Oil & Gas Exploration
“SteelFusion was easy to justify. The alternative was going to cost us three times as much. We spent less AND we improved our recovery capability at the same time.”
• Centralized data in co-location facility
• Consolidated backup operations in data center – no more edge backup
• Reduced footprint in remote locations
• Enabled full centralized control
RESULT
• No one to manage backups at remote exploration and production sites
• Failing servers in remote locations increased risk
• Outgrowing existing infrastructure and skill sets
CHALLENGE
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G&T Conveyor improves RPO
Industry: Manufacturing
“Our massive half-terabyte disaster recovery jobs that basically didn’t work, even over four days, can now be done successfully in a day.”
• 20X improvement on application performance
• Faster file sharing and project delivery
• Easily move 500 GB of data for DR
• 75% reduction in DR process time
RESULT
• Operations in hurricane region
• Replication from FL to GA took 4+ days
CHALLENGE
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GeoEngineers leverages the cloud
Industry: Engineering
“Moving data storage to the cloud gives us a cost-effective DR strategy that is inline with the goals of our business continuity plan.”
• $50-60k in savings over 2 years for eliminating disk-to-disk backup
• 50% reduction in data storage costs
RESULT
• Single data center couldn’t support getting data offsite
CHALLENGE
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Fusebill protects applications
Industry: Billing Services
“We’re exploring the use of other locations for disaster recovery and backup functionality. That’s another reason we went with SteelApp. Its global traffic management functionality
blends nicely with that initiative .”
• Full-featured layer 7 application delivery
• Option to deploy global load balancing
• Simplified PCI compliance• Offload from developers with
TrafficScript
RESULT
• Support business growth
• Support PCI compliance
CHALLENGE
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Riverbed Application Performance Platform™
The most complete platform to enable organizations to embrace location-independent computing, with the ability to analyze, diagnose, and resolve application
and data delivery issues
SteelHead™SteelApp™ SteelFusion™
SteelCentral™
SteelScript™
SteelStore™
PROFESSIONALSERVICES
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Cloud
Data Center
Internet
Internet
MPLS
Branch
Centralized Visibility, Reporting and Management
SteelCentral
Riverbed Application Performance Platform™
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• Avoid branch HW refresh
• Avoid bandwidth upgrade
• Eliminate recurring tape offsite costs
• Eliminate remote backup administration
• Improve uptime
BUSINESS CASE
• Simper, more cost-effective business continuity/disaster recovery plan
• Improved RPO and RTO
IDENTIFY GOALS ENGAGE TEAMS
• Storage
• Networking
• Server/virtualization
• Applications
• Cloud architect
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