An in-depth look at the tools needed to prevent a disaster. Join FireHost and our featured customer Dyn as we discuss the key components for keeping your most important business functions online and always available.

1. The Six Must Have Tools
For Business Continuity
Presenter: Todd Gleason (Director of Technology, FireHost)
Featured Customer: Cory von Wallenstein (CTO, Dyn)
September 12th 2013

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Agenda
• Introductions
• Defining Disaster Prevention and Business Continuity
• Prevention is Better than Recovery
• Hot/Cold – Hot/Warm – Hot/Hot
• Dyn – The Leader in DNS
• The Six Must Have Tools for Business Continuity
• Preconfigured Solutions
• Your Questions Answered
Submit your questions throughout the talk via chat. We’ll
address them live at the end or follow up offline

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Introductions
Todd Gleason
Director of Technology
Cory von Wallenstein
Chief Technology Officer

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What is Disaster Prevention?

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Prevention is Better Than Recovery
• Types of Disasters
SECURITY
COMPLIANCE
SALES &
MARKETING
CLOSED
• What is your recovery time objective (RTO)?

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Hot / Cold
• Longest RTO (Basic needs for continuity)
• Typically a single server to store backups
• File/database backups are shipped and stored regularly
Regular Backups
Primary Infrastructure
File/Database Backups

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Hot / Warm
• Medium RTO (a few minutes to a few hours)
• Allows for limited availability if primary fails
• Replicated production environments with lower resources
Regular Replication
Primary Infrastructure
Standby Infrastructure

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Hot / Hot
• Maximum failure resistance(The gold standard)
• Typically two or more production environments
• Isolated data centers with full data replication
Real-Time Replication
Full Infrastructure
Geographic Location 1
Full Infrastructure
Geographic Location 2

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The Dyn Story

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The Six Must Have Tools
Greater customization and flexibility for every recovery time objective

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High Availability
• Hardware redundancy in case of component failure
• Very helpful but not entire infrastructure
Failed Hardware
New Hardware
Data Transfer

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Load Balancers
• Eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks
• Balance incoming traffic between multiple servers
Load Balancers
Load Balancers

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DNS Management (Dyn)
• Direct all traffic at the DNS level
• Multiple solutions to fit your RTO

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Global Redundancy
• Single-site vs. multi-site configurations
• Geographic diversity for the utmost in redundancy
Geographic Location 1
Geographic Location 2
Geographic Location 3

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Scheduled Scale
• Plan resource increases/decreases to meet demand
• Maximize budget and performance

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FluidScale™
• Add resources on-demand without a reboot
• Works with all FireHost scaling methods
FluidScale
VS
Over Provisioned
Horizontal
Over Provisioned
Vertical
Resources on Demand
Vertical

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Preconfigured Solutions
• Easy and fast solution deployment
• Can be customized to fit any RTO
• Learn more at firehost.com/disaster-prevention

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Thank You
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