Disaster Recovery is a part of Business Continuity Planning. Read to find out how it is realized and why in the current business landscape.

1. Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
a provider’s view

2. Disaster Recovery
 IT DR is only a small part of Business Continuity Planning!
 “an unnecessary cost and extra headache”
 is it a real problem?
Windsor Tower, Madrid February 2005
IT staff downloading files during the fire
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3. Key Survey Points re IT Systems
 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!
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4. Our experience with cloud
Factors causing reluctance to move production workloads to the cloud:
 Confusion
 Complexity
 Security
 Performance
 Cost
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5. Our experience with cloud
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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6. Your trusted cloud provider
The evolution of DR solutions
Cloud-based DR
Conventional DR
 less cost, better RTOs, more automation

7. …and real-life business benefits
 Improved Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point
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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

8. Your trusted cloud provider
Lessons learned
 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

9. Your trusted cloud provider
DR in the Cloud is real
 Advertising Standards Authority
 Berrymans Lace Mawer
 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 Financial Software Ltd
 Guardian Media Group
 Impax Asset Management
 Majedie Asset Management

10. Thank you – Any questions?
And don’t forget to have a read of our whitepaper:
Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
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