Disaster Recovery in the Cloud:Architecting Your DR Strategy

Bryan ThompsonBryan Thompson is Tier 3’s vice president of services. Bryan oversees pre and post-sales technical support and professional services.

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Tier 3Tier 3 is an enterprise cloud platform provider, offering an agile, self-optimizing cloud solution designed to run mission-critical, production applications and services. Tier 3 offers enterprise grade security, five 9 SLA across server, network and storage, and built-in disaster recovery.

What is Disaster Recovery?

BackupsMaking copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event; one component of a complete DR plan.

Disaster RecoveryThe process, policies and procedures of preparing for recovery or continuation of critical IT infrastructure after a disaster.

Business ContinuityActivities to ensure that critical business functions—including but not limited to IT infrastructure—will be available in the case of a disaster.

The True Costs of Disaster Recovery

Cost of a Disaster Recovery Solution

Impact of a Disaster on Your

Business

Tape

Disk-to-Disk

VirtualCloud

Lower storage and broadband costs are driving the cloud evolution

The Evolution of Disaster Recovery Solutions

Why Disaster Recovery in the Cloud?

“Cloud-based DR moves the discussion from data center space and hardware to one about cloud capacity planning,” Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group

Cloud Disaster Recovery Delivers…

• Enterprise RTO/RPO levels• From RTO of 2-3 weeks to under 8 hours• Provides custom RPO points for different

workflows• Lower costs

• No more CapEx required to buy/refresh gear

• Geo-diversity built-in; no paying for additional datacenters

• Improved automation and reliability• Leverage fully automated solutions• Eliminate mechanical failures

Cloud Disaster Recovery Solutions

There are many cloud disaster recovery choices – will your approach force you to prioritize one over others or manage multiple solutions?

End-User Data Corporate Data & Applications

Servers & Virtual Machines

Disaster Recovery Scenarios

On-premise Replicate to a 2nd physical site

Physical to PhysicalActive/Active Hot Site Cold Site

RTO 0 < 8 hours < 24 hours

RPO 0 < 8 hours < 24 hours

Physical to Offsite Backup

RTO 1-3 weeks

RPO 24 hours

Needs to be provisioned in case of disaster

BuildConfigDeploy

PhysicalOffsite Storage

Physical

Virtual to Virtual

RTO 8 hours

RPO 8 hours

VM Images

VMs (on premise or in

the cloud)

Data

Data

VM Images

Physical to Virtual

RTO 24 hours

RPO 24 hours

Cloud VMs

Cloud VMs

Disaster Recovery Scenarios (cont.)

Architecting a Disaster Recovery PlanWhat workloads are mission-critical? (What RTO/RPO is needed for each?)

What do you need backed up?On-premise vs. cloud-hosted Data, applications, and servers/virtual machines

Determine the frequency of backups needed by how much data loss can you safely handle

Ensure solution provides geo-diversity, as well as rolling backups to protect against data corruption

SLA alone is not a disaster recovery strategy – what dedicated disaster recovery solutions do you have in place?

Client Backup app:

• The desktop backup app stores employees’ PC data to the cloud, with version history

• Comprehensive web control panel and admin accounts allowing for centralized IT management

• No licensing fees or costs beyond the storage and bandwidth used.

SAN layer snapshots:

• Once a day snapshots of all Premium Environment SANs

• Rolling 14-day backups to paired data centers separated by at least 800 miles, ensuring geographic diversity

• 3 copies of data (one local, two remote) are maintained at all times for increased redundancy.

App-level backups:

• Uses Microsoft Data Protection Manager to back up Windows Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and more

• Active/passive clustering enables failovers between databases, should one go offline

Tier 3 Disaster Recovery Solution Suite

“Our entire business depends on the Tier 3 Cloud. It pretty much runs everything for us, so that we don’t have to.” - Andy Evans, Founder and CTO, Obeo

Tier 3: An Enterprise Cloud Innovator

Time-tested TechnologyContinuously innovating on five years of unique IP in enterprise virtualization

Proven Results>100 enterprises trust their mission critical apps, sites and development environments to our cloud

Zone FootprintThree zones across the Americas by Q4

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