Microsoft Azure is the fastest growing hyperscale public cloud, thanks to compelling capabilities, aggressive pricing, and strategic focus from Microsoft. That’s interesting, but what does that mean for your backup and continuity strategy?
This presentation lays out the 5 most common use cases, 5 key success factors, and other important points to consider when evaluating cloud targets for your backup and continuity requirements.
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Microsoft Azure & Continuity: 5 Use Cases and Success Factors
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#1 All-in-One Enterprise
Backup and Continuity
Microsoft Azure & Continuity
5 Use Cases and 5 Success Factors
Joe Noonan, VP Product Marketing
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
IT Professionals Servers & VMs Data
CHANGE IS
ACCELERATING
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CHANGE BRINGS RISK
40%
60%
Enterprises Worldwide Attacked by
Ransomware in 2015
259%
Increase in Attacks
63% businesses down > 1 day
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Delta Airlines August 2016
Data Center Outage
Cost the Company
$150,000,000
Average Cost of a
Single Data Center Outage $730,000
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Cloud Adopters Are Ahead of The Game
Important triggers for cloud continuity
• No second site or offsite plan, whatsoever
• Significant pain with managing a secondary
• Significant pain with managing storage
• Using traditional strategies – tape or
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Azure regions
Azure is available in 140 countries,
including China, and supports 17
languages and 24 currencies, all backed
by Microsoft's $15 billion investment in
global datacenter infrastructure
38 Datacenters – More that AWS and Google Combined
US: Iowa, Virginia, Illinois, Texas, California
Ireland, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka,
Sao Paulo, New South Wales, Victoria (AU), Pune, Chennai,
Shanghai, Beijing, Toronto, Quebec City,
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Cloud
Migration
Disaster
Recovery
Offsite
Backup
Copies
Backup
Azure
VMs
Direct
Backup
Storage
5 Continuity Use Cases with Microsoft Azure
Updates Coming Soon
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Cloud
Migration
Disaster
Recovery
Offsite
Backup
Copies
Backup
Azure
VMs
Direct
Backup
Storage
5 Continuity Use Cases with Microsoft Azure
Updates Coming Soon
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Migration
Replicate
Test
(optional)
Deploy
(Planned)
Done
DR
Replicate
Test
(optional)
Production Issue
Deploy
(Planned/Unplanned)
Production Issue
Resolved
Failback
Migration vs. Disaster Recovery
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Cloud
Migration
Disaster
Recovery
Offsite
Backup
Copies
Backup
Azure
VMs
Direct
Backup
Storage
5 Continuity Use Cases with Microsoft Azure
Updates Coming Soon
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What You Protect in an Azure VM
Full Virtual Machines
Volumes, folders, files
Applications (e.g. SQL Server, Oracle)
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How Your Protect Azure VMs
Agent in the guest VMs
• Most widely used
• Flexible and highly granular
Agentless VM protection
• Snapshots
• Limited vendor support and capabilities
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5 Critical Success Factors
1. Understand your needs
2. Select the right cloud storage strategy
3. Avoid unnecessary compute costs
4. Plan for a way back
5. Keep on-premises in mind
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5 Critical Success Factors
5. Keep on-premises in mind
Datacenter
Application consistency
VM best practices
Local instant recovery
Centralized management
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Cloud
Migration
Disaster
Recovery
Offsite
Backup
Copies
Backup
Azure
VMs
Direct
Backup
Storage
5 Continuity Use Cases with Microsoft Azure
Updates Coming Soon
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Boomerang for Cloud Disaster Recovery
Datacenter
• On command, run as Azure VM
• Spin up using Azure VM storage, resume
operations
• Issue resolved, one-click failback to enterprise
Organize VMs into groups
Manage DR process
Install Unitrends Boomerang
virtual appliance
2
5
1
Azure Storage
Blob
Azure VM
Storage
3 • Replicate and store backups in
low-cost Azure storage blobs
4 Disaster!
Outage in Data Center
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Purpose-Built for Public Cloud
• ReplicatesVMwareVMs to low-cost cloud storage
• RemodelsVMs and networks to native cloud formats
• Uses NO cloud compute for replication
• Automates all steps to deploy/failover
• Automates all steps to bring back
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“Pilot Light” – The Impact of Compute Cost
• One (1) A4 General PurposeVM = $0.592 per Hour
# of
VMs
DR Budget Items
(annual)
Cloud Storage
(annual)
Total DR
Budget
(annual)
Compute %
(ofTotal DR Budget)
Boomerang EC2Compute
5 $1,197 $5,186 $288 $6,671 78%
10 $2,394 $5,186 $576 $8,156 64%
25 $5,985 $5,186 $1,440 $12,611 41%
50 $11,970 $5,186 $2,880 $20,036 26%
100 $23,940 $5,186 $5,760 $34,886 15%
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Key Competitive Differentiators
• Most value on the market
• 1/10th cost of equivalent DR solutions
• “Pilot Light“ capabilities
• Easy to use
• Intuitive and simple to install and setup
• Ease of operations: 1-click deploy, 1-click restore
• Minimize affect on operations
• Agentless -- no change toVMs
• Automates failback of full machines
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When Boomerang Might Not Be Ideal
• Customer requiresVMs withVMDKs >1TB
• Customer must use operating systems that are not supported
in Azure
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/iot-hub-
tested-configurations/
• Customer requires a solution that works withVMs that cannot
take snapshots
• iSCSI pass through disks
• Physical RDM disks
• Independent persistent disks
• Customer requires consistent, predictable recovery SLAs
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Unitrends Cloud May Help Instead
Purpose-built clouds can solve many
Boomerang/Azure limitations
• Backup-based
• Cloud storage seeding for large data
sets
• DRaaS forVMware, Hyper-V, and
PhysicalWindows
• 1-HR SLA
• Recovery Assurance – Automated DR
Testing & Compliance Reporting
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Cloud
Migration
Disaster
Recovery
Offsite
Backup
Copies
Backup
Azure
VMs
Direct
Backup
Storage
5 Continuity Use Cases for Microsoft Azure
Updates Coming Soon
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Unitrends
Recovery Series
or
UEB
Unitrends Backup in Azure for Offsite Backup Copies
Off-site data protection with Unitrends Backup in Microsoft Azure
Data center Unitrends Enterprise Backup on
Azure VM with Azure Blob
Storage
• On premises backup
• Backup copies in the cloud
• Recovery from cloud
• Instant recovery from on site
Unitrends common
management
dashboard
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Easy Deployment of Unitrends Backup for
Azure
• Same as on-premises – simply packaged as
Azure Image
• Deployed through the Azure Marketplace
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Cloud
Migration
Disaster
Recovery
Offsite
Backup
Copies
Backup
Azure
VMs
Direct
Backup
Storage
5 Continuity Use Cases for Microsoft Azure
Updates Coming Soon
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Data loss can occur
with Office 365
• Office 365 data lives in the Microsoft cloud, not on a company’s own server
• Deleted email is gone after 14-30 days—totally unrecoverable
• Deleted SharePoint & OneDrive files are gone after 186 days
• Most lost data is due to user error
• Users can choose to permanently delete files & email
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A Better Way Is Required!
Businesses depend on applications & data in the cloud.
Little tolerance for data loss…..
…..or waiting on IT to restore a file.
Business needs
• Long term retention
• Powerful and easy recovery
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Unitrends Cloud Backup for Office 365
It’s a Backup Service;
not a product
Long term retention;
never deletes data
Easy; automatically
discovers new users
No installation required;
Unitrends on-boards
customers
Self-service recovery
and search
Stays current; takes up
to 6 snapshots per day
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Cloud
Migration
Disaster
Recovery
Offsite
Backup
Copies
Backup
Azure
VMs
Direct
Backup
Storage
Remember the 5 Use Cases
Updates Coming Soon
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Remember the 5 Critical Success Factors
1. Understand your needs
2. Select the right cloud storage strategy
3. Avoid unnecessary compute costs
4. Plan for a way back
5. Keep on-premises in mind
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Visit www.Unitrends.com
Unitrends Backup, Office 365, Boomerang
Backup: https://www.unitrends.com/products/software/unitrends-enterprise-backup
Boomerang: https://www.unitrends.com/products/cloud/boomerang-for-vmware
Office 365: https://www.unitrends.com/products/cloud/cloud-backup-for-office-365
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Bring Your Own Licensing: Use Cases
Requires
per TB capacity
license (UEB is
target for on-prem
Recovery Series
appliance)
Second-Site WAN-
Optimized Backup
Copies Entitlement
from Unitrends
Backup Standard
Edition or higher is
sufficient
Requires Unitrends
Backup license per
protected VM
(similar to how we
license physical
servers on premise)
Recovery Series Unitrends Backup Protect Azure VMs
Notas del editor
Key message:
Technology is constantly changing – from physical to virtual to cloud and in a million other ways
And it creates growth that far outpaces the people that implement and manage it
The gray line that’s flat…that’s you
Key message:
Ransomware is just one example (CBT) of how this rapid change brings significant risk to an organization
It’s affecting more than half of enterprises
And more than 60% of businesses have been down more than a day from it
Delta is a great example - $150 million for one outage.
Key message:
This is where I think cloud adopters are really ahead of the game.
Leveraging cloud helps to alleviate these pain points
BUT ONLY IF DONE IN THE RIGHT WAY
Global adoption numbers prove it
Backup software is only growing at 5.5% according to Gartner
The game changer in many ways is cloud DR and how folks use it
The Unitrends base is seeing better cloud adoption with Azure than AWS
And the broader market is showing that folks are thinking harder about Azure in the future more so than AWS
Microsoft does a great job giving you this info right on their website
I’ll give you my favorites that our customers have told me about
First, the marketplace is insanely easy to use and very geared towards partners
Unfortunately, I can’t always say the same about AWS
And if you look at mainstream backup vendors today, you see a lot more of them in Azure’s marketplace than in AWS
Availability
They’re everywhere
With 38 datacenters announced they have more than AWS and Google combined
This makes it easy to access no matter where you are
And their well-trusted
Just about every cloud certification is covered
When it comes to Backup and Continuity there are 5 key use cases we’ll talk about today
These are ways we see the most people using Azure today in our space
Key messages:
Let’s start with these two
Key message:
Operations are pretty similar…
Just slight differences
Key messages:
How we’re helping folks solve these problems with Azure
Primary focus on DR
We’ll leave the last two as teasers for a future discussion
Key messages:
How we’re helping folks solve these problems with Azure
Primary focus on DR
We’ll leave the last two as teasers for a future discussion
Key messages:
How we’re helping folks solve these problems with Azure
Primary focus on DR
We’ll leave the last two as teasers for a future discussion
Run through the examples
Be caution of bandwidth and recovery needs
Not always a huge fan of online backup at any type of scale, but it provides a great target for SaaS backup (cloud-to-cloud)
These have an impact on the other success factors and decisions.
The storage strategy used can be important to cost.
The solution you use can force one or the other.
Usually a bad thing to use compute, but there are some good reasons.
Regardless of your use case, make sure you can get the data back
For backups, recovery should be flexible and granular to ensure fastest recovery back on-premises
For full machines and DR, you always want to be sure getting machines back is not an afterthought.
Build this into your core decision-making strategy
Additionally, this story might actually be related to inter-cloud use cases, specifically when talking about protecting Azure VMs
So it’s not about coming backup, but having a secondary cloud location so there’s redundancy
Regardless of your use case, make sure you can get the data back
For backups, recovery should be flexible and granular to ensure fastest recovery back on-premises
For full machines and DR, you always want to be sure getting machines back is not an afterthought.
Build this into your core decision-making strategy
Key messages:
How we’re helping folks solve these problems with Azure
Primary focus on DR
We’ll leave the last two as teasers for a future discussion
Azure Example
Organize VMs store backups in low cost Blob storage
Declare disaster & spin-up as Azure VMs using VM storage
Resume operations in the cloud
Failback to enterprise when ready
Migration use case
Contain local infrastructure, run in cloud
Survey results - Migration one of most difficult elements of moving to cloud
Use case -
Id which VMs to migrate
Install Boomerang virtual appliance on premise
Migrate enterprise VMs to low cost Object storage in the Azure cloud
As applications are run, Boomerang pull the application into the Azure compute cloud as an Azure VM.
It stores it in object on ongoing basis when the application is not being used
Verify, then shut down VMs at the enterprise
Operate in the cloud
Key message: Summary of what it does and what it means to be purpose built for cloud DR and migration
Key message:
This is how important it is to avoid compute costs at all times for basic replication.
Our competitors don’t do this
Key differentiation: Purpose built for low-cost, insanely simple DRaaS and migration.
Review points
Operational efficiencies
Intuitive GUI
Auto discover, group and display VMs
Agent-free; takes a snapshot of VMs without shutting down servers
Optimize frequency, timing of backups
Secure via military-grade encryption
Minimize downtime and impact
Industry’s fastest time download to replication (< 1 hr.)
Rapid recovery with fast rehydration of up to date backups
Key message:
We talked about how important meeting a budget was…
The pricing here is very aggressive to ensure that not just those with large IT budgets can help their organizations stay afloat when downtime strikes
Key message: Important to be honest
Key message: Purpose-built, enterprise cloud solutions can help in those cases
Key messages:
How we’re helping folks solve these problems with Azure
Primary focus on DR
We’ll leave the last two as teasers for a future discussion
Creating off-site backup copies of your on-premises backups ensures the utmost protection for your assets. Unitrends enables you to easily set this up based on Unitrends Connected Continuity Platform.
Use Unitrends common dashboard across appliances on-prem and in cloud. Use the same intuitive Unitrends management dashboard to replicate backup copies from the Unitrends physical or virtual appliance in your data center to the cloud.
Create On premises backup, all-in-one – UEB (4 editions) , R-S Available in 14 models from 1 TB to
182 TB of raw storage.
Create copies into the U Forever cloud (based on your standard retention policy for backup copies and long term retention) considering daily, weekly, monthly backups and an infinite number of annual backups.
Recover from cloud as required.
Quickly recover the asset that you need from the cloud back to your users, be it a file, an application or entire volume.
Appliances Utilize Instant recovery tech on site
To guarantee business continuity, best practices combine validation testing with instant recovery of applications
VMWare, Hyper-V and Windows physical
One solution….we have other ways, Cloudhook tech to integrate with hyperscale clouds from AWS, Azure, Google, Rackspace
Enabling UEB as a target running in Azure and later in AWS (amazon Web services)
Lets look at U solution.
Start with dashboard, intuitive access to managing our appliances and applications that make up our Connected Continuity Platform.
You can immediately begin to backup your data from the Azure based applications onto the Unitrends appliance deployed as a VM. All backup, recovery and management capabilities are integrated into the single instance of Unitrends Enterprise Backup efficiently running on this one VM.
Optimize your IT staff by easily setting-up automated backups.
From there, the same management dashboard can be used to recover whatever level of granularity has been lost – file, data volume.
You can quickly retrieve loss data no matter how granular or large of a data set.
Key messages:
How we’re helping folks solve these problems with Azure
Primary focus on DR
We’ll leave the last two as teasers for a future discussion
Key message: The details of how it works.
Value of 6 snapshots vs MS protection??
Rapid set-up—nothing to install
Automatic, hands-off backup
In your control—Self-service recovery
Business continuity—recovery in just seconds
Continuity—Lost email restored in just a few clicks
Business protection—Unlimited retention
Secure—encryption
Priced simply—per user per month
Key messages:
How we’re helping folks solve these problems with Azure
Primary focus on DR
We’ll leave the last two as teasers for a future discussion
Key messages:
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