More and more companies are leveraging the cloud for disaster recovery. After all, the limitless compute resources of the cloud are perfectly suited for disaster recovery. Learn how to easily leverage the cloud for DR.
2. About the Speakers
Scott D. Lowe
Partner and
Co-Founder
ActualTech Media
Ed Walsh
CEO
Catalogic
Jon Hahn
Manager
North American
SoftLayer Channel
Sales
Kamlesh Lad
Technical
Architect,
Research and
Development,
Catalogic
Software
3. Agenda
DR to the Cloud – Trends and ActualTech Media
perspective
Copy Data Management for DR
Softlayer Hybrid Cloud Overview
Catalogic Software CDM
DR to Softlayer Customer Case / Reference
Architecture
Live Solution Demonstration
Q&A
5. DR to the Cloud: Trends and Perspectives
Disaster recovery is an increasingly important
consideration
Standing up physical DR sites requires big CapEx
expenses
Also requires a lot of OpEx
Need to maintain two separate environments
Splits staff attention
The cloud has emerged as a powerful option
6. DR to the Cloud: Trends and Perspectives
But it’s not without its own challenges
7. Copy data is created whenever primary data is copied for
secondary purposes, including protection, operations,
test/dev and analytics
http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/idc-copy-management-infobrief-interactive-version.pdf
Copy Data
8. Primary Problem: Too Many Copies of Data
According to EMC and IDC
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Copy data
sprawl
will cost
companies $50
billion by 2018
45%-60%of total
storage
capacity is
dedicated to
copies
82%of
businesses
have at least 10
copies of any
one instance of
data
http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/idc-copy-management-infobrief-interactive-version.pdf
9. The Result
Massively increased costs
10X storage capacity for many ($/GB)
Exponentially increased bandwidth/transfer costs
Inefficiency during recovery (Which copy do I restore?)
Slowdowns
It can take hours just to prepare necessary copies to refresh,
for example, a test environment
Security woes
May not be able to properly address sensitive data
10. The Solution: Copy Data Management for DR
Copy Data Management (CDM)
Helps you to discover copies of data throughout the
organization
Helps you maintain efficient creation of copies as needed
Helps you to maintain security of those copies
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11. Hybrid Cloud Requirements
Hybrid cloud The future of IT
Combination of public and private clouds
Seamless integration between public and private
environments
Orchestration
Ensure consistency and order of VMs, applications, and storage
requirements to bring up live environment
Perception of a single environment
12. Hybrid Cloud Statistics
68%
Companies that
are using or
evaluating a hybrid
cloud deployment
47%
47% list DR as a
driver of their
current or planned
hybrid cloud
deployment
Source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/infographic-businesses-are-turning-to-the-hybrid-cloud-to-avoid-hardware-costs/
Cost was
identified as the
#1 and #3 drivers
for interest in
hybrid cloud
13. In-Place Copy Data Management Software
In-place copy data management software
advantages
Avoid moving copies of data to expensive public cloud
locations
Save WAN bandwidth
Save cloud provider transfer charges
Save cloud provider capacity charges
Reduce local copies
Save money on local storage
An understanding of what data resides where
14. In-Place Copy Data Management Software
Which data copies are used?
Where they are located?
How often they are refreshed?
Who has access to them?
How long they are left in place (retention)?
15. DR Benefits
Streamlined testing
More testing equates to better results in the event of an
incident
Reduced costs
Fewer data copies
Less confusion when a recovery becomes necessary
Automation
Fewer (or no) errors, further accelerating recovery
16. DR to Hybrid Cloud Solution Overview
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Combine the elastic compute of the cloud with the
core application data required
Leverage the scale and economics of the cloud,
achieving over 300%+ ROI
20. Analysts Agree - Our Hybrid Cloud Point of View is
Differentiating IBM Cloud from the Competition
LEADER, Application Life Cycle Management (Ovum, March
2016)
LEADER, Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution
(Ovum, March 2016)
LEADER, Selecting an Agile Project Management Solution
(Ovum, March 2016)
LEADER, Private and Hybrid Cloud (Synergy Research,
January 2016)
LEADER, Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions (Forrester,
January 2016)
#1 Cloud Software & Cloud Service Delivery & Orchestration
(TBR, February 2016)
#1 most adopted private cloud vendor, hosted private cloud
vendor, self-built private cloud vendor and cloud brokerage
vendor (TBR, January 2016)
Choice with Consistency to put
the right workload in the right place
Powerful, Accessible Data &
Analytics to extract deeper insight
Hybrid Integration to unlock
existing data and applications
DevOps Productivity to develop,
experiment and iterate at speed
Cognitive Solutions to build
understanding and learning into
decisions and interactions
24. Catalogic Software Company Overview
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COMPANY
Who
Leading Provider of Software Defined
Copy Data Management
Headquarters:
Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Offices
US, EMEA
TECHNOLOGY
24 issued patents
Products include:
DPX™
Heterogeneous Data Protection – instant
mountable access
and
ECX™
Copy Data Management – leverage your
data copies
Our Value
For Enterprise storage clients looking to modernize their
infrastructure to be more automated, efficient and responsive to
the demands of their end-users and developer community,
Catalogic Software provides a non-disruptive solution for adding
• Self-service • Automated DR • Enhanced Test/Dev
as well as the ability to provide “Infrastructure as code” for
• Hybrid Cloud • DevOps automation
Unlike other solutions, Catalogic Software works with existing
Enterprise storage agentlessly and deploys within 15 minutes
on-premise or in the Cloud.
AwardsCustomers
25. Catalogic Software
IT Modernization through “In place” Copy Data Management
Catalogic ECX
Copy Data
Management Platform
Agentless and non-disruptive
Installs in ~15 minutes
Works with existing
infrastructure
No “Rip and Replace”
Your Infrastructure
DevOps
Automated Hybrid Cloud
Automated DR, Dev/Test
Self-Service
Easy Storage Management
www.CatalogicSoftware.com
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
Virtual snapshot and
replication capabilities
7-Mode, Clustered ONTAP, NPS,
Cloud ONTAP, FlexPod
Storwize, SVC, v9000, VersaStack
and Flash Copy Manager
Unity
AND/OR
Next Generation Protection
and Recovery
26. Catalogic ECX: Copy Data Management
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Storage APIs
VM VM VM
VM
1
VM
2
VM
3
Hypervisor
API
Storage APIs
VM VM VM
VM
1
VM
2
VM
3
Hypervisor
APICATALOGIC ECX
Private
Cloud
Cloud Service
Providers
Private
Cloud
Hyperscale
Cloud
Providers
Copy Data Management
actionable catalog provides:
• Catalog all snaps, replicas, files and
VMware objects agentlessly via APIs
• Detailed visibility and context of your
current environment
• Copy Lineage and location
• VMware / Storage correlation
• Compliance / Audit reporting
Production
Data
Full Copy Snapshot
27. Catalogic ECX: Copy Data Management
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Copy Data Management
actionable catalog provides:
• Catalog all snaps, replicas, files and
VMware objects agentlessly via APIs
• Detailed visibility and context of your
current environment
• Copy Lineage and location
• VMware / Storage correlation
• Compliance / Audit reporting
Replication
CATALOGIC ECX
Storage Array
VM VM VM
VM
1
VM
2
VM
3
Storage Array
VM VM VM
VM
1
VM
2
VM
3
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Private
Cloud
Cloud Service
Providers
Private
Cloud
Hyperscale
Cloud
Providers
Production
Data
Full Copy Snapshot
28. Catalogic Copy Data Management for Automated DR
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Automated DR:
• Workflows leverage actionable catalog
• Bring up applications in a fenced network
• Bring up applications in order, leveraging
existing application consistent snapshots
• Test DR every day
• Enable agility with access to live
environment on demand
Hypervisor
Replication
VM VM VM
VM
1
VM
2
VM
3
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
VM
1’
VM
2’
VM
3’
Fenced VM
Environment
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
Cloud Service
Providers
Private
Cloud
Hyperscale
Cloud
Providers
VM
1’
VM
2’
VM
3’
Fenced
VM Environment
Storage Array
Storage Array
Hypervisor
Private
Cloud
Production
Data
Full Copy Snapshot
CATALOGIC ECX
29. Catalogic Copy Data Management for Automated DR
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Cloud Service
Providers
Private
Cloud
Hyperscale
Cloud
Providers
Private
Cloud
Replication
VM VM VM
VM
1
VM
2
VM
3
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
Storage Array
Storage Array
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Production
Data
Full Copy Snapshot
• Workflows leverage actionable catalog
• Bring up applications in a fenced network
• Bring up applications in order, leveraging
existing application consistent snapshots
• Test DR every day
• Enable agility with access to live
environment on demand
• Environments can be cleaned up, promoted
to production or moved to permanent
storage depending on the use case
• They key is automation to bring
environments up and bring environments
down
CATALOGIC ECX
30. Catalogic-Enabled Hybrid Cloud DR: 300%+ ROI
• Solution testing shows consistent 300%+ ROI compared to a traditional
DR configuration
–Lower CapEx:
• On-Demand Compute vs. fixed and over-provisioned
• Efficient use of DR target resources vs. extensive 2nd datacenter costs
–Lower OpEx:
• Automation of DR tasks reduces level of effort from people-weeks to minutes
• Self service capabilities further reduce IT time burden
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31. Replication
VM VM VM
VM
1
VM
2
VM
3
HypervisorCATALOGIC ECX
Automation
And
Self Service
Storage Array
Hypervisor
Cloud Service
Providers
VM VM VM
VM
1
VM
2
VM
3
Automated Hybrid Cloud Solution Benefits – DR and Beyond
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• Easiest way for traditional IT clients with
enterprise storage to leverage the benefits
of Hybrid Cloud
• Simply create a new remote mirror
relationship in the Cloud
• Powerful automation and orchestration to
leverage the availability of endless compute,
while keeping central control
– Recovery, Automated DR, Test/Dev and near real-time data
access for Operational Analytics and DevOps
– Spin workloads up but also spin them down, minimizing
cloud charges
• Cloud wide visibility of data availability and
location compliance
• Increased Agility with dramatic savings
– Lower CapEx via compute and second datacenter costs
– Lower OpEx through automation and self-service
– Dramatic agility increase through automation and DevOps
uses cases
Private
Cloud
33. Configuration Overview
• On-Prem (New Jersey)
– IBM Storwize V7000 array
• 20 TB of data
– VMware, 100+ VMs
• Exchange 2010, Oracle, SQL,
Active Directory
• Catalogic ECX
• SoftLayer (California)
• Vmware environment
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Local Copies
Copies for DR
VM
VM
CATALOGIC ECX
Production
Infrastructure
Private
Cloud
34. Testing Overview: ECX Policies and Daily Operations
• Virtual machines were protected with local array snapshots
– IBM FlashCopy
• Daily replication of VMs from New Jersey to California
– IBM GlobalMirror
• Full DR testing run daily for 60 day test period
–VMs spun up automatically on pre-defined schedule
–After successful start up, VMs automatically shut down
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35. Results Summary
• Disaster Recovery testing fully automated
– Dramatically reduces IT staff workload
– More reliable
– No more long weekends at the remote site
• SoftLayer compute eliminates need for hosted
DR servers
– Compute resources needed for only minutes a day
– Automatic spin-down dramatically reduces cost
structure
• Cost savings of 3x compared to traditional
Disaster Recovery model
– See white paper for full ROI details
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Total Cost Savings:
$694,323
Replaced $720,000 data center
costs with $108,000 SoftLayer
Cloud costs
Saved $35,000 on server
hardware and
networking costs
Three year time frame
37. Hybrid Cloud “Killer App” Reports
Copy Data Management
Detailed ROI report on Catalogic and IBM
SoftLayer used for disaster recovery
– https://catalogicsoftware.com/resources/copy-data-
management-for-a-hybrid-cloud
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SoftLayer/NPS Technical Report: NetApp
TR - 4447
NetApp technical validation report
on Catalogic and SoftLayer for DR
Ed Walsh is Catalogic’s Chief Executive Officer, a proven CEO with 20 years of high impact senior-level management experience with public, private and venture backed firms within the high-tech industry.
Prior to joining Catalogic, Ed held a number of executive positions including CEO of Avamar, which was acquired by EMC. He was the GM and VP of the EMC/Avamar data protection business. Most recently, Ed was the Vice President of Marketing and Strategy and Vice President of IBM's Storage Portfolio Strategy and Business Line Executive. Ed joined IBM through the acquisition of Storwize where he was the CEO of an evolutionary technology for real-time compression.
Ed earned a degree of business and finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and received his MBA at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan Business School.
Kamlesh has over 20 years of experience with designing and developing storage management software.
#1 Avoid hardware costs
#3 Budgetary concerns with on-premises solutions
Forrester named IBM a leader in its latest Wave™ report on hybrid cloud management solutions. Forrester analyzed and scored numerous hybrid cloud management solutions and identified IBM as both a “leader” and a “significant software provider.”
The report goes on to say that some of the leaders such as IBM “offer deep and broad support for prebuilt application and infrastructure templates, powerful provisioning and configuration management, role-based controls, and rich cost, performance, and capacity management features.”
Synergy’s report, “Worldwide Cloud Infrastructure Services Market Share, Q3 2015,” acknowledged IBM as a top performer and leader in the private and hybrid cloud space for 2015. The firm’s findings around IaaS, PaaS, hybrid and private cloud, clearly confirms our position as one of the market leaders in cloud.
As a company we have been delivering software for over 18 years – Our headquarters are in Woodcliff Lake, NJ and we have offices throughout the US and Europe.
We believe Data is more critical to business than ever. Business must leverage their data copies to deliver operational efficiencies, while simultaneously delivering greater business agility. The next great leap in Data Management will be Copy Data Management.
We have two products DPX and ECX. DPX is our heterogeneous data protection product and ECX is our Copy Data Management platform. And we have 1000’s of satisfied customers WW.
The rest of this presentation will be about Copy Data Management and our ECX software platform
IT teams are struggling with the challenge to drive down cost while increasing agility. A common catch phrase for this is “IT modernization”.
Catalogic drives IT modernization through their “In-Place Copy Data Management platform.
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You simply take your existing IBM storage infrastructure, which you bought for good reasons. No need to rip and replace or change anything
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You add Catalogic Software in the environment. The solution is agentless, non-disruptive and installs in about 15 minutes. The solution works “in-place” or with your current infrastructure. no need to “rip and replace” anything.
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And you get some very powerful use cases.
Self-service storage provisioning. Leveraging storage templates and role based access, a storage team can provide admins or developers self-service, while keeping control and governance
Easy Storage management. Storage templates make it easy to role our consistent storage and save time
Automated DR is one of the powerful automated uses cases. Leverage your remote storage replicas to perform daily DR. It might sound complex but its really quite simple to deploy in a cloud or private data center. Image life without DR weekends.
Automated Hybrid Cloud drives high ROI uses cases leveraging your existing investments in IBM storage
DevOps automation is typically impossible to do traditional IT. Catalogic with its templates, role based access and rest API make it quiet simple.
Here is what is important to know about how Catalogic’s Copy Data Management software works.
[BUILD] ECX installs as a virtual machine or vApp and does not require any agents. The configuration is as simple as just registering the storage and hypervisor assets in ECX and that’s it.
From there, Catalogic catalogs all copy data from the storage as well as Vmware
ECX does this by talking directly to the public storage and hypervisor APIs
Once the environment is cataloged, IT now has detailed visibility and insight of all the data, including the data copies, within the environment.
ECX catalogs all snaps, replicas and VMware objects.
In addition, the catalog understands the lineage and location of a data copies, so there is a clear understanding of what is production data and what is snapshot or replica data and which volumes the snaps and replicas are associated with.
The catalog also correlates between Virtual Machines and Storage infrastructure so IT has compliance reporting on recover points or data availability points, local and remote, on a VM by VM basis.
ECX provides detailed reporting to ensure business SLAs are being met.
We’ll dive a bit deeper into how ECX’s ‘Use Data’ workflow works.
[BUILD] To make data available for a DR, DevOps or Analytic environment for a set of applications or different business units is next to impossible without automation and orchestration.
[BUILD] ECX’s Copy Data Management Platform enables IT to set up these environments and meet the business SLAs. Leveraging ECX’s actionable catalog, the ECX ‘Use Data’ workflow is able to spin up application consistent VMs in a fenced network environment. This is a critical step so as not to impact production. ECX even allows IT to configure the order in which to bring up the VMs needed to ensure application dependencies are met.
[BUILD]The new environment is now up and running and available in this fenced off environment and the data is available to be used for any use case.
Once the environment has been spun up and utilized, ECX provides multiple option around this copy of production data;
[BUILD] First, the environment can be automatically cleaned up; typically, these environments never get cleaned up. The ability to automatically clean up these environments helps to reduce data sprawl. This is especially important if these workflows are running daily.
And what we do is allow IT an easy way to take advantage of the cloud by simply extending their existing environment. Again, because ECX is build to use the technology within the underlying storage, we simply leverage their storage array’s capability to move an app consistent snapshot into the cloud.
Then ECX delivers all the required automation and orchestration of all of the layers of the stack that need to come together to instantiate a working application environment in the cloud, in support of those key use case that we’ve talked about– DR, Analytics, Test and Dev, etc– And ECX controls the process of spinning up an environment when needed, and spinning it back down to return the infrastructure and take advantage of the elasticity.
The API comes into play here as well as this all can be driven through the API, which allows ECX to serve up the cloud infrastructure with self service and automation to the dev teams.
And the ROI of this can be significant. We have white paper showing 318% ROI on things like daily DR in the cloud, compared to doing DR in a traditional format.
Same value can be applied to an analytics use case. You spin up an environment for a given period of time to allow the data scientists to run their analyses, and once completed, you spin it down.
And this really increases the agility of the overall IT organization, provides dramatic operational cost savings, and of course lower capex as you are simply paying on consumption as a monthly expense and not a huge capital purchase.
ESX 5.5 – 4 core & 64GB of RAM
• Storwize V7000 array
• Catalogic ECX, deployed as a virtual appliance
• Application VMs hosted on Storwize Exchange 2010
Oracle Database server
SQL database server
Active Directory Server