How to Budget for Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
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You’ll Learn How To:
Pat O’Day Chief Technology Officer,
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• Create a solid plan for moving your DR plan forward
• Identify how to approach and integrate cloud-based DR into your budget
• Identify the amount for which to budget
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WHAT HAPPENED IN 2013
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Cloud is More Prevalent Than Ever According to Gartner, IaaS is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 37.8% through 2017
Gartner Forecast Overview: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 1Q13 Update. 03 May 2013.
TOP 5 MOTIVATORS FOR ADOPTING CLOUD
Source: IBM
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Your Risk and Impact Have Changed • Disasters (natural and man-made) are increasing • Businesses are becoming more reliant on
technology, making IT more important than ever
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FEMA Declared Disasters (1953-2012)
Source: http://www.fema.gov/disasters/grid/year
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Improvements in Replication Technology
• Low Barriers to Entry • Improved Recovery Quality • Testability, Ease of Use • SAN Agnostic • 100% Software-based • Application-aware…
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Natural Disasters and Weather Extremes
Flood Hail Thunderstorm High Winds
Ice Storm
Power Outages
Philadelphia 1086 674 2641 5 Yes
Indianapolis 481 1269 2562 11 Yes
Baton Rouge 87 271 948 5 Yes
Nashville 545 963 2330 9 Yes
Boston 342 599 1172 2 Yes
New York 1281 561 2027 9 Yes
Pensacola 245 314 828 0 Yes
Minneapolis 167 1841 1765 4 Yes
Chicago 374 996 1711 12 Yes
Seattle 34 11 11 0 Yes
San Francisco 69 2 10 0 Yes
Los Angeles 175 29 74 0 Yes
Las Vegas 108 51 121 0 Yes
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What’s Stopping You?
• If the world is a scarier place and you’re more at risk and new DR solutions are more compelling—why aren’t you doing this? – Not a priority – DR is too expensive – Connecting to the cloud is complex – Cloud is still scary – Not in our skill set to plan and manage DR
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ABOUT BLUELOCK
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Bluelock Virtual Datacenters 5-Series Virtual Datacenters Production Hosting Public Cloud resources for hosting production and business critical workloads. This VDC type supports even the most complex hosting requirements such as HIPAA and PCI compliance.
4-Series Virtual Datacenters Recovery-as-a-Service Cloud-based disaster recovery resources that enable customers to replicate VMware-based workloads to the Bluelock Cloud from their own datacenter or other cloud environments.
2-Series Virtual Datacenters Test / Dev / Demo Hosting Public Cloud resources for hosting test, development and other pre-production needs. This pay-go, no commitment cloud environment matches the risk and budget profile for your less critical workloads.
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To-Cloud RaaS vs. In-Cloud RaaS
4-Series Virtual Datacenter Recovery-as-a-Service
Bluelock VDC Las Vegas
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To-Cloud RaaS Your Datacenter
4-Series Virtual Datacenter Recovery-as-a-Service
Bluelock VDC Las Vegas
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In-Cloud RaaS Your Datacenter
4-Series Virtual Datacenter Recovery-as-a-Service
Bluelock VDC Las Vegas
Bluelock VDC Indianapolis
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PICK YOUR APPROACH
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3 Ways to Transform Recovery
Walk Before You Run Start small and learn to use the cloud with minimal impact on your existing systems. Example: Get cloud experience protecting one critical app Pick a Set of Applications Learn how Recovery-as-a-Service truly works by holistically protecting your business critical apps. Example: Protect a group of apps with similar recovery objectives Re-think Everything Transition your entire DR plan to the cloud, remove the work and energy your team spends on DR plans to a provider. Example: Stop doing tape backups and move all DR to the cloud
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• Regional retailer in the Midwest, implemented a RaaS solution for added security, scaling ability and other attributes
• ERP and Inventory systems run on VMware infrastructure at private datacenter which extends to remote offices
• Chose a joint solution from Bluelock and TW Telecom that allowed for a dynamic network connection. The flexible bandwidth removed the need for expensive, static “pipes”
• How it works: • During normal operations, the recovery point application checks for changes in the
Tire Discounters environment and only the changes only are pushed up to the Cloud, so a relatively small throughput required.
• During a disaster recovery failback scenario, however, most or all data from the Bluelock cloud is pushed back to the Tire Discounters environment and tw telecom Dynamic Capacity kicks in to increase throughput.
To-Cloud RaaS Tire Discounters
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To-Cloud RaaS Ursinus College
• Liberal arts college just outside Philadelphia • Net new Bluelock customer
– First-time cloud buyer • Has websites and other external-facing apps in
their datacenter they want to recover in the cloud – Requires DMZ infrastructure to leverage a second
site; Bluelock enables a more cost effective way to access a second site for DR
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• Leader in energy information management • Looked at public cloud to simplify IT operations
and provide high security – Customer since late 2011
• Initiative has now grown to 2 5-Series VDCs to serve training courses in a hybrid cloud environment as well as the test/dev
• Needs to protect its SaaS application that turns energy meter data into usable information
To-Cloud RaaS eMeter
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DOLLARS & DETAILS
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Determine the Value of Your Application
• What is the impact of your application going down on the bottom line of your business? – For a day, a few days, or longer?
• What is the likelihood of a disruption happening?
– For a day, a few days, or longer?
• (Impact) x (likelihood) = The Value of protecting your application
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Determine What RTO/RPO You Want
• RTO = The maximum time your application can be down after a declaration.
• RPO = The age of the files that are recovered after a declaration.
• Determine the rate of change of your application to identify your ideal RPO. Use the value of your application to determine your RTO.
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Are You Using Your Resources Efficiently?
Typical application performance
Typical provisioning model
Under-provisioning Putting recovery time at risk
Over-provisioning Over-spending on
insurance (DR)
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Budgeting for Monthly Costs
Cost at recovery: • Port Speed (10Mb, 100Mb, 1Gb) • CPU & Memory
Monthly service price depends on: • Replication Service fee = # VM’s
committed • Storage • Data transfer cost • Pay-go for monthly resources above
commit level
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Other Cost Considerations
• Timing
• Testing
• Network Impact – Performance & RPO Management
– Dynamic Networking
• Services
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Timeframes for interim milestones are for illustration only and will depend on customer specific criteria.
Timeline and Milestones for Implementation Week 1 Month 6Week 4 Week 8 Month 3
Implementation
Review
Kickoff call with Professional Services (1hr)
Implementation objectives complete
Professional Services Year End Review
Customer receives welcome pack and RaaS Questionnaire
Engagement
Creation of client specific ‘Recovery Runbook’
Implementation/Login Access Granted 1st Recovery Test
Customer OperationalFull Access to Portfolio, Bluelock Support
Customer engages Bluelock when ready 2nd Recovery Test
UP AND RUNNING IN 3-4 WEEKS!
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Budget for Testing
• How frequently do you need to test? • Traditional testing
– Some providers say you can do as many tests as you want, but you pay a larger monthly premium.
• RaaS testing – Some providers offer a number of free tests, and
you pay-as-you-go for additional testing. Because you aren’t paying for resources constantly, non-testing costs are lower.
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Self-Service or Guided Testing
• Self-service testing – For organizations with strong IT staff and
consider this a core competency • Guided testing
– For organizations with less experience in DR or those that prefer to invest time in other core IT functions
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Click-to-Test: Rewarding Good Behavior
• Bluelock provides resources to encourage testing 2x per year
• If you schedule your test with Bluelock, we credit your account for the resources used during the test
• Can also choose to test on an isolated network to prevent disruption to your production workload
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What kind of vendor do you want to work with?
• Compare a high-touch vendor with low-touch vendors
• Do you want implementation services or does your team want to handle everything?
• Do you want a vendor who is an extension of your team, so they can assist you with declarations and testing?
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DR Services
• Datacenter Recovery Assessment & Planning
• DR Runbook Integration (RaaS + Broader DR strategy)
• Implementation Services
WHICH SOLUTION IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
WALK BEFORE YOU RUN
PICK A SET OF APPLICATIONS
RE-THINK EVERYTHING
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