BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY WEBINARPresented By: Daniel J. Haurey, Tel. (973) 770-0500

ASSUMPTIONSYou have at least one server running a Windows network operating systemYou're either interested in or participate in the ongoing safeguarding and protection of your organization’s data

TWO GOALS FOR TODAYTo educate the attendees on technology and industry trends that are allowing us to take advantage of robust backup and business continuity options that were formerly out of reach for most organizationsTo inform you that you have a choice over traditional tape that offers rapid recovery time and continuance of operations during a failureWE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO STOP RELYING EXCLUSIVELY ON TAPE FOR YOUR BACKUP NEEDS

AGENDADEFINE THE JARGONTWO CRITICAL PIECES OF THE RECOVERY PROCESSCONFRONTING YOUR INDIVIDUAL RISK TOLERANCE INTRODUCTION TO DISK BASED BACKUP TECHNOLOGYINTRODUCTION TO VIRTUALIZATION AND CONTINUITYPREVENT, MANAGED BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERYQUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING OUR DIGITAL ASSETSA recent study discovered that, of companies experiencing a “major loss” of computer records, 43 percent never reopened, 51 percent closed within two years of the loss, and a mere 6 percent survived over the long-term••Cummings, Maeve; Haag, Stephen; and McCubbrey, Donald. 2003. Management information systems for the information age.

IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING OUR DIGITAL ASSETS“Numerous surveys reveal that second to mis-configuration of the backup software, the leading cause of backup failure is human error”“As a monotonous, thankless job, the shuttling of tapes in and out of a backup tape drive is frequently delegated to employees without the benefit of professional training, who perform the task as their lowest priority on the way out the door”

WHAT IS BUSINESS CONTINUITY?WHAT IS DISASTER RECOVERY?STRATEGICBusiness Continuity encompasses Disaster Recovery, Backups and even business succession planning. It provides the strategy and process involved to make sure your company survives the loss of key individuals, data, equipment, or facilities. How do we continue operations if happens?Disaster Recovery typically refers how companies respond or recover from actual disasters, like a flood, fire, earthquake, theft, etc. TACTICAL

Business Continuity encompasses Disaster Recovery, Backups and even business succession planning. It provides the strategy and process involved to make sure your company survives the loss of key individuals, data, equipment, or facilities. How do we continue operations if happens?

Disaster Recovery typically refers how companies respond or recover from actual disasters, like a flood, fire, earthquake, theft, etc.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYTWO COMPONENTS OF BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERYSAFEGUARD THE ACTUAL DATAPROVIDE FOR CONTINUITY OF IT SERVICES

SAFEGUARD THE DATABACK IT UP! (make copies of the data) Most common backup destinations:TapeExternal hard disksNetwork Attached StorageOffsite services that backup over Internet to a remote datacenter

PROVIDE FOR CONTINUITYAllow for continuance of IT services:during failureduring recovery process Allow email to continue to flowAllow access to documentsAllow access to softwareAllow BUSINESS and IT to CONTINUETHE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE BACKING UP (COPYING DATA)BUT NOT PROVIDING FOR CONTINUITY

HOW DO I PROVIDE CONTINUITY?UP UNTIL RECENTLY…NOT VERY EASILY!NOT COST-EFFECTIVELYCLUSTERING?SPARE SERVERS?EXPENSIVE AND COMPLEX DATA REPLICATION

NOT VERY EASILY!

NOT COST-EFFECTIVELY

CLUSTERING?

SPARE SERVERS?

EXPENSIVE AND COMPLEX DATA REPLICATION

WHAT IS OUR TOLERANCE FOR DOWNTIMEMost people claim that they can be “down” anywhere from 2 hours to 2 daysREALITY“after a moderate to major failure, most people with tape backup, or, data, copied to tape, are looking at anywhere from two days to two weeks, depending on parts availability or delivery”

ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER TRENDS MAKE BUSINESS CONTINUITY POSSIBLE AND AFFORDABLEENTER DISK-BASED BACKUPENTER VIRTUALIZATION

WHAT IS DISK BASED BACKUP?Utilize fast, inexpensive hard drives, rather than tape for your backup operations

DISK BASED BACKUP?(IN LIEU OF TAPE)WHY NOW?WHY DIDN’T WE USE DISK EARLIER?

STORAGE PRICES HAVE PLUMMETED

STORAGE PRICES HAVE PLUMMETEDmassive storage / minimal cost

MASSIVE CAPACITYVERY LOW COSTHARD DISKCOSTS

Organizations need to look beyond just copying data to tapeThe simple copying of data to tape is not a strategy. Rather, when it works flawlessly, it merely safeguards your data and is one piece of a two-part processProviding Business Continuity, or the ability to keep working in the face of a failure is criticalMost companies have a very false sense of security in tape or a distorted view of the recovery process and actual time needed to fully recover from a failure or disasterIndustry pricing trends and technological advances have allowed for smaller organizations and those with a tighter IT budgets to move from tape alone, to robust disaster recovery which provides for business continuityMake no mistake about it, using tape alone leaves you and your organization vulnerable to considerable downtimeSUMMARY

TAPE VS. DISK

COMPONENTS OF AN IRONCLAD BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY PLANFREQUENT BACKUPS (MORE THAN EVERY 24 HOURS)HEALTH AND INTEGRITY OF BACKUPS MONITOREDBLOCK LEVEL BACKUP, VERSUS FILE LEVEL BACKUPBACKUP IS ENCRYPTED FOR SECURITY REASONSFAILOVER AND BARE METAL RESTORE CAPABILITIESOFFSITE STORAGE CAPABILITY

FREQUENT BACKUPS (MORE THAN EVERY 24 HOURS)

HEALTH AND INTEGRITY OF BACKUPS MONITORED

BLOCK LEVEL BACKUP, VERSUS FILE LEVEL BACKUP

BACKUP IS ENCRYPTED FOR SECURITY REASONS

FAILOVER AND BARE METAL RESTORE CAPABILITIES

OFFSITE STORAGE CAPABILITY

THE ANSWERPREVENT™ | Managed Backup & Disaster RecoveryFrequent backups (as frequent as every 15 minutes)Failover capability through virtualization of serversBackups are monitored 24 hours per day, 7 days per weekSecurity (256 AES encryption on and off-site)Bare Metal Restores to dissimilar hardwareOptional backup of your backup to an offsite datacenter

Frequent backups (as frequent as every 15 minutes)

Failover capability through virtualization of servers

Backups are monitored 24 hours per day, 7 days per week

Security (256 AES encryption on and off-site)

Bare Metal Restores to dissimilar hardware

Optional backup of your backup to an offsite datacenter

HOW DOES IT WORK?

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