How to Implement Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

@Bluelock | www.bluelock.com
Recovery in the Cloud
HOW TO IMPLEMENT A DR
STRATEGY THAT WORKS

Meet the Presenter
Pat O’Day
Chief Technology Officer
Bluelock
@ODayP

@Bluelock | www.bluelock.com@Bluelock | www.bluelock.com
•  Why DR in the Cloud?
•  How to Implement RaaS
•  Use Cases for RaaS
•  Q&A
Topics Covered

About Bluelock
•  Leading cloud IaaS and RaaS provider since
2006, based fully on VMware
•  Strong and proven service mentality
–  Track record of successfully serving clients
with variety of enterprise cloud use cases
•  Strategic VMware partner
•  Customer-focused innovation
–  Listen to customer needs and
all R&D is focused on the cloud

Bluelock Differentiators
VMware Focus
Secure, compatible and familiar
Visibility and Transparency
Better decisions, manage risk
Stratified Delivery Models
Best fit for each workload
-  Evolution Platform options
-  Managed Services
-  Support tiering
-  Bluelock Portfolio™
-  Predictive algorithms
-  Encourage better behavior
Virtual Datacenters
Security, with agility and control
-  Business unit autonomy
-  Resource re-allocation
-  Centralized governance
-  vCloud Datacenter Provider
-  Strong strategic alignment
-  100% pure and focused

Bluelock
Virtual
Datacenters
Architecture
How RaaS fits in
Sub-Brand
Variations
Sub-Brands
Parent
Brand
Master
Brand
Bluelock
Bluelock
Virtual
Datacenters
5-Series
5000
5100
5125
5200
2-Series 2000
4-Series
(RaaS)
4004
4504
4508

WHY DR IN THE CLOUD?
WHY NOW?

Your Risk and Impact Has 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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(1953-2012)
Source: http://www.fema.gov/disasters/grid/year

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

Improvements in
Replication Technology
•  Low Barriers to Entry
•  Improved Recovery Quality
•  Testability, Ease of Use
•  SAN Agnostic
•  100% Software-based
•  Application-aware…

Application Recovery
•  Virtual Protection
Groups (VPG)
•  RTO and RPO
•  Consistency
•  Boot Order
•  Recovery Points

Choose Your Recovery Point
•  You are not limited to recovering from just the latest instance
•  Choose from recovery points prior to the disaster, allowing
peace of mind that you’ll bring back your workload from a
non-corrupted state

Zero Footprint, Extremely Efficient
•  Replicates at the
hypervisor level:
–  No agent installation or
rebooting of applications
to get up and running
–  No rework of the
application required
Don’t force your app to fit the DR.
Choose DR that fits the app.

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

HOW TO IMPLEMENT A DR
STRATEGY THAT WORKS

To-Cloud RaaS
bluelock.com/cloud-services/raas/to-cloud-dr/

To-Cloud RaaS Use Case #1:
Education
•  Did not have a cloud strategy, RaaS was first
foray into cloud
–  Keeping existing datacenter for most workloads
•  High-risk location for hurricanes
•  Needed aggressive RTO/RPO for
production apps
•  Couldn’t fit DR into budget based on
traditional warm-site model; highly cost
sensitive

To-Cloud RaaS Use Case #2:
Financial and Healthcare
•  Compliance-sensitive workloads
•  Was backing up to cloud but moved to
RaaS for better application protection
– Needed RaaS to backup cloud assets, with
automation (efficiency)
•  More aggressive RTO/RPO to return
production apps to service quickly,
meet requirements

In-Cloud RaaS
bluelock.com/cloud-services/raas/in-cloud-dr/

In-Cloud RaaS Use Case #1:
Software
•  Production SaaS app currently running in
the cloud
•  Needed to protect the application from
disruption because it’s a primary revenue
source
•  DR was expensive, but RaaS offered the
value and efficient pricing that made
protection possible

In-Cloud RaaS Use Case #2:
Technology
•  Production SaaS app hosted in the cloud
•  Concerns over data corruption (SQL and
software updates)
•  Protected by consistency groups and
recovery points
•  Easy testing—it had to work!

From-Cloud RaaS

Achieve a More Effective DR Footprint

EARTHQUAKE

HURRICANE

BROWN OUT

DATA CORRUPTION

Disrupting Existing DR Solutions
Cold Site Comparison RTO RPO Relative Cost
Traditional “Cold site” Approach days 24 hours 25%
Bluelock RaaS
(In-Cloud or To-Cloud)
≤8 hours ≤4 hours 35%
Way Better! Similar
Warm Site Comparison RTO RPO Relative Cost
Traditional “Warm site” Approach ≤4 hours 30 minutes 95%
Bluelock 4004 VDC (To-Cloud) ≤4 hours 30 minutes 40%
Similar Way Better!

Budgeting for RaaS
•  During replication:
– 100% of storage cost
– 100% of replication network traffic
– 20% of CPU
– 20% RAM
– Pay-as-you-go software licenses
•  During testing/failover:

Comparing Recovery and Testing Costs
DR INFRASTRUCTURE COST

Comparing Recovery and Testing Costs
TOTAL DR COST

Understand RaaS Costs
Bluelock Portfolio

Timeframes for interim milestones are for illustration only and will depend on customer specific criteria.
RaaS Planning
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 Operational
Full Access to Portfolio, Bluelock Support
Customer engages
Bluelock when ready
2nd
Recovery Test

Testing and Declaration
Self-service or Managed Service

Failback
•  Declaration
– Full production workload brought online in
remote datacenter
•  Reverse Replication and Failback
– Only changes are replicated back to primary
site
– Scheduled and coordinated return to primary
datacenter

Application Recovery Assessment
Interested in a complimentary
Application Recovery Assessment?
– Weigh the risk level of applications against
the value of the cost of continuity
Request your assessment today
– Contact sales@bluelock.com
– Call 888-402-2583 (BLUE)

Connect with Bluelock
Questions, comments or want more detail on
DR in the cloud? Connect with Bluelock!
@Bluelock
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