1. Backup and
Recovery to the
Cloud
Speakers:
Martin Wright
Techgate plc
Doug Clark
IBM
By working in partnership with
Techgate you can ensure that
your migration to the Cloud is
at a pace that meets your
technical, financial and
operational needs

2. roadmap $7bn
Cloud Revenue by
2015
Cloud is at the forefront of IBM’s 2015 growth strategy

3. indepth expertise partnering
proven, reliable, secure technology for customer choice
deep technical skills
new global centres
comprehensive ecosystem
IBM Innovation
extensive portfolio
SmartCloud Foundation
SmartCloud Services
ongoing research SmartCloud Solutions

4. Backup and
Recovery to the
Cloud
Speakers:
Martin Wright
Techgate plc
Doug Clark
IBM
By working in partnership with
Techgate you can ensure that
your migration to the Cloud is
at a pace that meets your
technical, financial and
operational needs

5. Who we are and what we do
“ Techgate is an enterprise-class Managed
Services Provider (MSP) specialising in
flexible high availability Cloud infrastructures
and business continuity services.
“ Flexibility is key
A key USP of Techgate is flexibility. We are well placed
for a fast time-to-market delivery and we are able to
quickly adapt to the ever-changing IT landscape.
Techgate has a unique and comprehensive solutions
Martin Wright
Managing Director
portfolio focussing on disaster recovery and are
Techgate plc constantly integrating new technologies into solutions
based on our customer requirements.

6. Security and accreditations
Techgate provides Enterprise- Premier
class facilities and services and Business
this is backed up and validated by Partner
BS25999
the wide range of industry specific VMware
Business Continuity
and corporate accreditations that vCloud Powered Accredited Partner
Management (all areas)
Techgate has achieved.
Cloud
Specialist
Partner
ISO27001
Data Security
(in progress Q1 2013) Enterprise Level Provider
Managed Services
Partner for
High Availability and
Business Continuity
Systems All staff checked
and cleared Asigra Hybrid Partner

7. Enterprise-class infrastructure
 Wholly owned, resilient and highly secure, UK based Tier3 data
centres, strategically located outside of Central London
 Data centres linked via our dedicated, ultra reliable, high speed
data communication network
 Cloud platforms built on state-of-the art, IBM server and storage
“
technology including the latest IBM v7000 Unified SANs
Techgate’s enterprise-class services are delivered
“
from our wholly owned UK data centres, via our  Enterprise-class services with guaranteed levels of
dedicated network, ensuring complete performance, resilience and security
control, management and security of service delivery.
 Primary Data Centre and Network Operations Centre based
within the IBM Business Continuity and Resilience Services
Facility at Chelmsford, Essex

8. Enterprise-class infrastructure
Hoddesdon Chelmsford
 Full redundancy of service is provided by
using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Fully redundant Fully redundant
management across Techgate’s dedicated Tier 1 Internet 10 GigE core switches 10 GigE core switches Tier 1 Internet
Level3 Communications LINX and LONAP
network
 Techgate’s Autonomous System (AS number)
makes Techgate totally ISP independent
10 GigE Core switches and routers 10 GigE Core switches and routers
 Access to 100+ Points of Presence (POPs) Braham Street Telehouse North
across the UK plus European access links
Dedicated, diverse, fully redundant fibre connections from all data centres

9. The Techgate Trusted Cloud
Innovative
 VMware is the global leader in cloud infrastructure
 Techgate is a VMware vCloud Powered
Accredited service provider
 vCloud Director is available for
configuration and management
 A global compatible cloud presence available HYBRID
through a network of vCloud Service Providers PUBLIC
PRIVATE
Dependable
 Data storage is based around on
state-of-the-art IBM xSeries servers
and v7000 series SANs
 Primary Data Centre housed in IBM Business
Continuity and Resilience Services Facility
at Chelmsford, Essex

10. A comprehensive Cloud portfolio
Techgate’s flexible, secure and high availability
Cloud services can be used to meet the most
demanding production and DR requirements
Your Trusted
Your Trusted
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud services we provide:
 Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
 Data Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS)
 Replication-as-a-Service (RaaS)
 Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS)
 Hosted Private Clouds for DR and Production
 Hosted Dual Site High Availability Private Clouds with
fully automated failover

11. Trusted Cloud – Business continuity
Hosting Backup &
Recovery
Replication &
Failover
Seats
Professional
• Traditionally, business continuity comprised
Services
linking a number of independent factors
Connectivity • Now you can have total business continuity with
the Techgate Trusted Cloud as part of a unified
Your Trusted
Business Continuity Plan on a dedicated or
Cloud
shared infrastructure
• Your Techgate Trusted Cloud acts as a core for
the disparate elements
• Techgate can provide backup, replication and
recovery solutions, restoring your data to its high
availability Cloud infrastructure
• There are a variety of solutions available

12. Trusted Cloud – Business continuity
Hosting Backup &
Recovery
Replication &
Failover
Your Trusted
Cloud
Seats
Professional
• Traditionally, business continuity comprised
Services
linking a number of independent factors
Connectivity • Now you can have total business continuity with
the Techgate Trusted Cloud as part of a unified
Business Continuity Plan on a dedicated or
shared infrastructure
• Your Techgate Trusted Cloud acts as a core for
the disparate elements
• Techgate can provide backup, replication and
recovery solutions, restoring your data to its high
availability Cloud infrastructure
• There are a variety of solutions available

13. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Top Ten Benefits of DRaaS
1 Quicker Faster Recovery Time Objectives
can be achieved
2 Flexible Easier to scale your DR needs to a
changing production system
3 Cheaper Benefit from economies of scale
without the need for CapEx costs
4 Simpler Simplify your DR with services that are
easier to manage and implement Examples:
5 Automated Benefit from automated DR
services and failover when needed Backup with Recovery to the Cloud
A comprehensive Cloud Recovery solution, combining
6 Comprehensive Implement complex data retention
requirements to suit your needs
incremental file level backup with physical and virtual
machine protection, so that your systems and data can
be easily and quickly recovered
7 Validate Non-disruptive testing allows you to
validate your DR implementation
vSphere Replication utilising SRM
8 Prepare Preconfigure your DR environment
so it is ready and available
Powerful vSphere replication using VMware’s Site Recovery
Manager, protects your VMware Private Cloud with virtual
9 Customise Adapt the elements you need to
suit you and keep it up to date
machine failover into the Techgate Trusted Cloud
Work with a trusted BC provider
10 Trust who can advise and deliver

14. Techgate
Cloud Backup
Mirror platform
Recovery to the Cloud Hoddesdon DC
Chelmsford Data Centre
Start full granular backup
Select data, create retention
rules and backup
Data is backed up to the Asigra
platform at Techgate’s Chelmsford
Data Centre Techgate
Cloud Backup
Main Platform
Full granular retention is available to
ensure you keep only the data you
need
Data is mirrored to a second Asigra
platform at Techgate’s Hoddesdon
Data Centre

15. Techgate
Cloud Backup
Mirror platform
Recovery to the Cloud Hoddesdon DC
Chelmsford Data Centre
Create vDC
Create a DR infrastructure in
Techgate’s Trusted Cloud
A vDC is created using the allocated
resource pool of GB RAM, CPU, GHz
and allocated storage on the Techgate Techgate
Cloud Backup
Trusted Cloud shared infrastructure
Main Platform
vShield Edge provides a secure
perimeter within the shared
infrastructure
Techgate Trusted Cloud
A VPN or leased line etc. allows the
organisation secure access to the vDC
for configuration and management vApp
VM VM VM
VPN / leased line
VMware vSphere
Servers
Storage
Storage

16. Techgate
Cloud Backup
Mirror platform
Recovery to the Cloud Hoddesdon DC
Chelmsford Data Centre
Turn off the vDC
The vDC and VMs are spun
down until needed
The vDC is put into DR mode, “turned
off” and any VMs are spun down
Techgate
Cloud Backup
No SPLA licencing or VM licence costs
Main Platform
are incurred during this period
although full resources remain
available to the organisation ready for
when they are required
Techgate Trusted Cloud
vApp
VM VM VM
VPN / leased line
VMware vSphere
Servers
Storage
Storage

17. Techgate
Cloud Backup
Mirror platform
Recovery to the Cloud Hoddesdon DC
Chelmsford Data Centre
Disaster occurs
Disaster occurs with the
production environment at the
organisation’s local site
The pre-built vDC is “invoked” and the
Techgate
VMs made live
Cloud Backup
Main Platform Data restored
Connection is made from the vDC to at LAN speed
the Asigra storage platform and the
latest version of the data is restored to
the VMs
Techgate Trusted Cloud
The organisation connects to their new
“production” environment through the
secure VPN and continues working vApp
VM VM VM
VPN / leased line
VMware vSphere
Servers
Storage
Storage

18. Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Site replication with automatic failover capability
The organisation installs the current version of VMware
vSphere and Site Recovery Manager to their local
virtualised production environment
A duplicate SRM target host site is created at Techgate’s
Chelmsford Data Centre
Data is replicated between the two every 15mins – 24 hrs
SRM installed on customer’s SRM on Techgate’s
production environment Cloud target hosts
vSphere Replication
via VPN, Leased Line etc.
Client HQ
Protected machines are
stored in a powered down state

19. Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Disaster occurs and automatic failover takes place
In the event of a disaster, SRM handles the automatic
failover to the DR site and production continues via
VPN, leased line etc.
Individual VM protection, scalable to 100s of VMs
Non disruptive testing and cost effective replication
Failure occurs on the customer’s Automatic failover to
production environment Techgate’s Cloud target hosts
Client HQ
Users can continue to access applications
and data on the Cloud DR environment

20. Versatility with the Techgate Trusted Cloud
Techgate provides its Trusted Cloud in a secure
environment, leveraging the leading cloud based
software from VMware and state of the art server
and storage hardware from IBM
Production Systems
You can use both our public and private Cloud  Fully scalable and flexible solutions
infrastructure for either production purposes or
for use as a Business Continuity environment  Individual virtual Data Centres with vCloud
Director for easy server and network
management
 Self provisioning from allocated resource pool
 Full security with vShield Edge on a shared
infrastructure
 OpEx financial model
Private
Hybrid
Public
Business Continuity
 Customer infrastructure can be pre-built
 Works in conjunction with a variety of backup,
recovery, and replication offerings
 Dedicated Cloud can act as a target host for
VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM5)
thereby providing automatic failover

21. A proven and trusted partner
Techgate plc has provided high availability IT infrastructures and business continuity
services for over ten years. We take time to understand our clients’ objectives from both a
technical and a business point of view. Below you will see some of the clients we work with
and what some of them have said about us.
“With Techgate’s Managed
Cloud Recovery Service, we
have a recovery solution that
is cost-effective, flexible and
secure.”
John Bower
Infrastructure Manager - IGD
“The Cloud platform that
Techgate developed for us has
absolutely delivered on [our]
requirements; and allows us to
provide a better service to our
clients at a lower cost, helping
to boost our competitive edge.”
Imran Khan
Managing Director
Financial Software Limited
Subject of an IBM joint case study

22. To learn more how
Techgate can help
you benefit from the
Cloud
Contact
Techgate plc
Moorfoot House
221 Marsh Wall
Canary Wharf
London
E14 9FH
Tel: 020 7680 6330
info@techgateplc.com
www.techgateplc.com