DECA Financial Services Reduces DR Costs by More Than 50%
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Housekeeping
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• This webinar is being recorded. We’ll email you the recorded presentation in a few days.
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Speakers
Pat O’Day Chief Technology Officer,
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Kevin Schoenrock Chief Information Officer DECA Financial Services
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• Why DR was Important to DECA
• How RaaS Saved DECA Over 50%
• How Bluelock Fits in the Picture
• What the Solution Looks Like
DECA Financial Services Reduces DR Costs
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WHY DR IS IMPORTANT TO DECA FINANCIAL SERVICES
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About DECA Financial Services
• Nationally licensed accounts receivable management company
• Small IT team responsible for success • Already hosts production in the cloud,
with Bluelock • Required the upmost security and
compliance from their cloud and DR solutions
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Why Disaster Recovery?
• Core application needed to be protected for mission-critical call center application to keep business running
• Data is critical to business because it’s how we make our money
• The data is sensitive, we need to comply with regulations and with our clients so we can be trusted
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DECA Financial
• Goals – Protect mission-critical applications – Reduce downtime to 24 hours or less
• Critical Applications – Call center and databases – Responsible for generating core business revenue
• Risk – Power, weather, and systems/network issues can
cause prolonged downtime
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Evaluating Solutions
Traditional Colocation for a full build-out datacenter
Recovery-as-a-Service with current cloud provider
VS.
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WHY RECOVERY-AS-A-SERVICE?
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Cost Comparison
• Traditional Colocation: $9,400/mo ~ $250,000 total • Over 36 months = ~7,000/mo • Plus, management: $1,400/mo • Plus, colocation space: $1,000/mo
• Recovery-as-a-Service: $4,000/mo • ~$4,000/month
• Savings: – $5,400/month – $194,400 over 36 months!
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But Wait, There’s More…
• Met client and regulatory core requirements • Recovery time objective of less than 24 hours • Also achieved:
– Geographic protection – Dynamic and scalable – High-touch service – 24x7x365
• And had an extra $5,400/mo
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Other Things to Consider
• Active production firewall at the DR site to handle the networking failover
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Control vs. Cost
• Traditional thinking was that RaaS for DR gave up control
• Found that RaaS was better than traditional control – Don’t have to manage or worry about it. Can
forget about it until it’s needed. That’s worth every penny.
• Can always rely on my extended Bluelock team to declare or help when needed
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WHY BLUELOCK?
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Compliance and Confidence
• Need to comply with all federal regulations
• With RaaS, we don’t have to worry – we trust Bluelock
• Huge selling point to future clients when we can guarantee a 4-hour full uptime
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Indy or Vegas?
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DECA IN THE CLOUD: ARCHITECTURE
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Picking the Right RTO
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Solution: Bluelock RaaS 4504 VDC – Data is replicated in near real-time to Bluelock
Vegas over a private network – Application recovery time estimated to be <1 hour
Call Center Applications
Vegas
DECA Financial
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HQ Call Center
Continuous Data Protection
Internet VPN
tw telecom Metro Ethernet
Indy Vegas
Establish Connection
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FAILOVER PROCESS During an Outage
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HQ Call Center
Continuous Data Protection
Internet VPN
tw telecom Metro Ethernet
Indy Vegas
Failover Process
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FAILBACK PROCESS After an Outage
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HQ Call Center
Continuous Data Protection
Internet VPN
tw telecom Metro Ethernet
Indy Vegas
Failback Process
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RE-ENABLE PROTECTION
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HQ Call Center
Continuous Data Protection
Re-enable Protection
Internet VPN
tw telecom Metro Ethernet
Indy Vegas
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What’s Next?
• Additional testing • New network designs • Cloud strategy moving forward • New ideas
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Connect with Bluelock
Questions, comments or want more detail on DR in the cloud? Connect with Bluelock!
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And the Winner Is…