So you have a Cloud-based DRaaS Plan, or you are considering one. GOOD DECISION. But do you have the right plan? Having the wrong Cloud DR can be its own disaster. We’ll review the right way and the horrific way to deploy a Cloud-based DR plan.
Don’t Jeopardize Your Business: 5 Key Business Continuity Use Cases for Cloudmarketingunitrends
Data is the lifeblood of any business and many IT pros are looking to clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS among others, for disaster recovery and continuity to keep business running while they focus on other critical initiatives. We’ll run through 5 key business continuity use cases to highlight how cloud-based solutions help with backup, recovery and business continuity. How many of these use cases describe your situation?
Public - Private and Hybrid Cloud Review 2017-03-20Thang Duong Bao
This document discusses public, private, and hybrid cloud models. It provides an overview of the different cloud types including physical servers, virtual servers, and cloud computing defined as using remote servers over the internet instead of local servers. The document also summarizes several reports on enterprise cloud strategies and challenges. It finds that while hybrid cloud is preferred, private cloud adoption fell. The top challenges for cloud computing are lack of expertise, security concerns, and cost management. The document also notes that Azure has increased its market penetration compared to AWS and Google. Finally, it discusses how trust in cloud computing is growing for both private and public models.
Are you actively using or moving to Office 365, G-Suite, or other popular cloud applications? If so, how confident are you that you can keep all of that critical data protected? Attend this session to learn how Veritas can help protect data across all of your different cloud applications--using the same solution you use to protect your existing non-cloud applications. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the advantages of using one unified solution to protect all of your data--across all of your physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
2018 promises to be another year of change - particularly in the world of cloud computing. What are the biggest public cloud trends that will impact you this year?
Are you tired of paying the VMware tax? Are you stuck in a Veeam virtual data protection prison? It's time to move beyond these outdated "virtual only" solutions. Attend this session to learn how you can finally trade your limited virtual data protection solution in for a complete Veritas solution that can protect all of your data from a single platform, with a single license, managed from a single console.
OpenStack and Containers have rapidly emerged as the default technologies for developing and delivering new scale out architectures. Initially, these workloads were deployed in test and development environments. But now that they're reaching the production phase, it's time to rethink and update your approach to data protection. Attend this session to examine the best models, mindsets, and approaches for providing complete, effective data protection for today's new scale-out workloads.
State of Cloud - Takeaways for Sales & Marketing ProfessionalsUBM (Technology)
2017 State of Cloud provides a thorough analysis of one of the technology industry’s most critical resources – the cloud. Interop ITX’s detailed research explores influences of the cloud today, concerns, management, security and cost, and what it has in store for the future. Read the full report here: http://reg.interop.com/inlv17-stateofcloud?kcode=slideshare
Katz Media Group transitioned from on-premises to cloud-only infrastructure by replacing legacy backup solutions with Druva. This simplified management and reduced costs. Version 1, a technology services provider, used Druva for backup and disaster recovery of AWS services, lowering costs by 70%. The University of England protected VMware Cloud on AWS and cut Amazon S3 storage in half using Druva's global deduplication. Andritz eliminated tape-based backups with Druva, which automated policies and reduced backup oversight time.
Don’t Jeopardize Your Business: 5 Key Business Continuity Use Cases for Cloudmarketingunitrends
Data is the lifeblood of any business and many IT pros are looking to clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS among others, for disaster recovery and continuity to keep business running while they focus on other critical initiatives. We’ll run through 5 key business continuity use cases to highlight how cloud-based solutions help with backup, recovery and business continuity. How many of these use cases describe your situation?
Public - Private and Hybrid Cloud Review 2017-03-20Thang Duong Bao
This document discusses public, private, and hybrid cloud models. It provides an overview of the different cloud types including physical servers, virtual servers, and cloud computing defined as using remote servers over the internet instead of local servers. The document also summarizes several reports on enterprise cloud strategies and challenges. It finds that while hybrid cloud is preferred, private cloud adoption fell. The top challenges for cloud computing are lack of expertise, security concerns, and cost management. The document also notes that Azure has increased its market penetration compared to AWS and Google. Finally, it discusses how trust in cloud computing is growing for both private and public models.
Are you actively using or moving to Office 365, G-Suite, or other popular cloud applications? If so, how confident are you that you can keep all of that critical data protected? Attend this session to learn how Veritas can help protect data across all of your different cloud applications--using the same solution you use to protect your existing non-cloud applications. Don't miss this opportunity to explore the advantages of using one unified solution to protect all of your data--across all of your physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
2018 promises to be another year of change - particularly in the world of cloud computing. What are the biggest public cloud trends that will impact you this year?
Are you tired of paying the VMware tax? Are you stuck in a Veeam virtual data protection prison? It's time to move beyond these outdated "virtual only" solutions. Attend this session to learn how you can finally trade your limited virtual data protection solution in for a complete Veritas solution that can protect all of your data from a single platform, with a single license, managed from a single console.
OpenStack and Containers have rapidly emerged as the default technologies for developing and delivering new scale out architectures. Initially, these workloads were deployed in test and development environments. But now that they're reaching the production phase, it's time to rethink and update your approach to data protection. Attend this session to examine the best models, mindsets, and approaches for providing complete, effective data protection for today's new scale-out workloads.
State of Cloud - Takeaways for Sales & Marketing ProfessionalsUBM (Technology)
2017 State of Cloud provides a thorough analysis of one of the technology industry’s most critical resources – the cloud. Interop ITX’s detailed research explores influences of the cloud today, concerns, management, security and cost, and what it has in store for the future. Read the full report here: http://reg.interop.com/inlv17-stateofcloud?kcode=slideshare
Katz Media Group transitioned from on-premises to cloud-only infrastructure by replacing legacy backup solutions with Druva. This simplified management and reduced costs. Version 1, a technology services provider, used Druva for backup and disaster recovery of AWS services, lowering costs by 70%. The University of England protected VMware Cloud on AWS and cut Amazon S3 storage in half using Druva's global deduplication. Andritz eliminated tape-based backups with Druva, which automated policies and reduced backup oversight time.
NetBackup CloudCatalyst – efficient, cost-effective deduplication to the cloudVeritas Technologies LLC
Is your organization looking for a more efficient, cost-effective way to use public and private cloud storage as a backup target? Attend this session to find out how CloudCatalyst can help, by providing deduplication of backup data to object storage environments in both public and private clouds. You'll learn how you can use CloudCatalyst to achieve petabyte scale with minimal cache storage requirements, transfer data from a NetBackup Dedupe Media Server without going through a rehydration process, and much more. Don't miss this chance find out exactly how CloudCatalyst provides the most efficient and cost-effective backups from a data center, to the cloud, or in the cloud.
Denodo Platform for AWS 30 day free trial: https://goo.gl/15JPHS
Denodo Platform for Azure 30 day free trial: https://goo.gl/xEzTki
The Denodo Cloud Survey was conducted in December, 2017 to gain insight into how organizations are using Cloud platforms, such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
The survey sought input from a diverse group of technical people, including enterprise architects, data architects, IT heads of department, such as Head of Analytics or BI Director, and some VP/CTO level respondents (see Slide 3 for breakdown).
The respondents were largely located throughout North America and Europe.
Implement DevOps Like a Unicorn—Even If You’re Not OneTechWell
Etsy, Netflix, and the unicorns have done great things with DevOps. Although most people don't work at a unicorn, they still want to combine agility and stability. To close the gap between developers and operations, Mason Leung says his company runs operation workshops, blogs about infrastructure, and experiments with different tools—and are solving the same problems as the unicorns only on a smaller scale. Mason explains that you don't get to millions of requests without going through the first several hundred. Ideas you can take from unicorns include how to use containers to enhance development experience, how to avoid production meltdown with continuous deployment, how to tame infrastructure gone wild, why “new shiny” is not always the correct solution, and why putting all your eggs in a cloud service provider is a good idea. There is no single, correct way to DevOps. By observing the unicorns and applying the lessons to your situation, your DevOps journey can be less volatile and more fulfilling as you prepare for the hypergrowth.
Native cloud applications require the same levels of protection, visibility, and recovery as on prem services. Yet all too often, organizations end up making risky or unacceptable compromises when it comes to their cloud data. Join this session to make sure this never happens to you. You'll learn how a new family of Veritas Cloud Data Protection solutions can provide complete, seamless data support for all of your native AWS, Azure, and Google applications and dramatically simplify your cloud management strategy.
The document discusses establishing a cloud policy framework for governance. It describes challenges with a bring-your-own-tools approach and proposes implementing policies as code with defined triggers, conditions, actions, and targets. Examples are provided for security, reliability, and cost policies. Automating policy evaluation and reporting on metrics is suggested for effective governance.
Eliminate the need for additional media servers and reduce your data footprint. NetBackup is truly the “King of Scale,” with the ability to protect 1000s of VMs. Direct integration with Veritas Data Insight and Availability Solutions solves challenges around copy sprawl and information insight.
NetBackup CloudCatalyst: Efficient, Cost-Effective Deduplication to the CloudVeritas Technologies LLC
Is your organization looking for a more efficient, cost-effective way to use public and private cloud storage as a backup target? Attend this session to find out how CloudCatalyst can help--by providing deduplication of backup data to object storage environments in both public and private clouds. You'll learn how you can use CloudCatalyst to achieve petabyte scale with minimal cache storage requirements, transfer data from a NetBackup Dedupe Media Server without going through a rehydration process, and much more. Don't miss this chance find out exactly how CloudCatalyst provides the most efficient and cost-effective backups from a data center, to the cloud, or in the cloud.
Using RightScale CMP with Cloud Provider ToolsRightScale
Large organizations are using cloud management platforms (CMPs) to manage and govern multi-cloud environments. They need their CMPs to work regardless of the cloud provider tools used by development teams, including AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and container services. We will show how RightScale CMP can add operation orchestration and governance regardless of how you provision your workloads.
Technical Best Practices for Veritas and Microsoft Azure Using a Detailed Ref...Veritas Technologies LLC
Explore best practices around the following use cases related to the Microsoft Azure platform: Long-term retention of data in the cloud, migration of critical workloads including those running in VMware and Hyper-V, and resiliency of business services running in the cloud. Each of these scenarios are part of what Veritas 360 data management in the cloud can provide. Learn the best way to design, deploy, and manage within each of these scenarios on Azure, and gain key insights into how to avoid pitfalls of common practices and how to boost your cloud ROI – demonstrated via a reference architecture.
Enterprise Cloud Strategy - Facts, FAQs and Implementation StepsMarianne Harness
Today's time for every enterprise, it becomes necessary to implement a cloud migration to decrease expenditure, maintenance of the data center. Understand and develop an enterprise cloud. Here is a guide for Enterprise Cloud Strategy that includes Facts, FAQs, and Implementation Steps. Visit https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/enterprise-cloud-strategy/
- Uncover patterns of success and challenges to define a recipe for what makes a “Cloud Leader”
- Provide actionable takeaways and best practices for organisations throughout their cloud adoption and maturity journey
- Take a deep dive into “how” leaders are actually achieving success
DELWP’s Data Lake: Investing in Asset Wealth for Public/Community Benefit – B...Amazon Web Services
In the last 10 years, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) has procured half a petabyte of aerial photography, satellite imagery, and point cloud data worth more than $45million. In addition, a range of faster products critical to the delivery of services are produced continuously. DELWP’s faster data needs is expected to grow overtime and an enterprise system to manage, publish and enable discovery and analysis of this growing catalogue is essential.
Find out how DELWP is implementing pioneering data science strategies to successfully integrate disparate systems and data silos, reduce risks and increase compliance, and support a rapid pace of innovation to improve DELWP’s services to the Victorian public.
Project Manager with DELWP’s Digital First program, Alena Moison will share the department’s journey through digital transformation, key successes and learning points, as well as how they worked with Bulletproof to implement solutions on AWS.
Speakers:
Giles Bill, Bulletproof Networks
Sam Mason, Bulletproof Networks
Alena Moison, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
Be Proactive, Not Reactive: Cloud Governance for Fast, Accurate Decision MakingCloudHealth by VMware
As your public cloud or hybrid environment starts to scale, it’s easy to lose track of all the moving parts. Reclaim time for more strategic projects by implementing cloud governance policies. In this session, we’ll show you how to proactively alert on any irregularities, such as cost spikes, tagging compliance issues, security vulnerabilities and more. We’ll share real world examples of how different organizations have successfully simplified their daily cloud operations through governance — including our experience managing our own infrastructure.
The document discusses how data has become the world's most valuable resource and how organizations can leverage their data through modern data infrastructure and a multi-cloud strategy. It highlights IBM's portfolio of software-defined storage and cloud solutions that provide agility, security, and help unlock the full value of organizations' data across private and public clouds. These solutions include IBM Spectrum Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage, IBM FlashSystem storage arrays, and IBM Cloud Private for building AI and hybrid cloud applications.
This document summarizes a company called ACS that provides a mobile data center solution using cryogenic cooling technology. Some key points:
1) ACS's technology can cut operating costs by over 50% compared to traditional data centers by using cryogenic cooling to reach temperatures as low as -176°F, reducing cooling energy needs by over 85%.
2) Their mobile data center solution reduces the time to set up a fully operational 2MW data center from around 30 months to just 20 weeks.
3) Financial projections estimate the technology could save over $735,000 in power costs for customers in the first year by drastically reducing cooling energy requirements.
Containerized storage for CI/CD Pipeline and DevOps - why, how, huh? What is wrong w/ stateful workloads on containers today? What is happening at the Linux kernel to improve the security of containers as a platform FOR storage? Could containers and Kubernetes become the foundations of a new approach to storage? How to deal with storage in multi-cloud environment. Quick view into the OpenEBS project.
Murat Karslioglu is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and startup geek with over 15 years of experience in storage, distributed systems, and enterprise software development. He is currently the VP of Solutions and Technology at CloudByte / OpenEBS, a startup developing open-source containerized storage for containers.
Prior to joining CloudByte, Murat has worked at Hewlett Packard Enterprise / 3PAR Storage in various advanced development projects including storage file stack performance optimization and the storage management stack for HPE’s Hyper-converged solution. Murat holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Sakarya University.
World Wide Technology: Is backing up to the cloud right for you?Angie Clark
Data protection and retention is critically important for commercial and public sector organizations alike. In fact, it is said that three things keep a CIO up at night: data failure, time to recovery and ensuring IT is able to meet recovery point objectives.
Today, if you have a failure, the amount of time the business is without the data can determine if you need to start looking for a new job…
This presentation will help the attendees:
• Evaluate the business case for targeting your backups to the cloud
• Identify candidate data sets for cloud backup and assess opportunities and readiness
• Mitigate the challenges of backing up to the cloud
• Build a roadmap to your cloud implementation
WWT also provides some real-world experience via use cases and introduces several tools and methodologies used to evaluate, plan and execute your journey to cloud backup in this presentation.
To find out more about WWT’s Data Protection team, log on to wwt.com.
This document provides an overview of Veritas NetBackup 8.1, which offers improved data protection capabilities for multi-cloud environments, modern workloads, and resilient infrastructure. Key features highlighted include leveraging multiple cloud platforms for long-term storage, faster backup to the cloud, protection for scale-out workloads and hyperconverged environments, simplified deployment and maintenance, and enhanced data security across networks. NetBackup 8.1 also features integrated support for popular databases and big data platforms through its use of flexible policies and frameworks.
Should You Move Between AWS, Azure, or Google Clouds? Considerations, Pros an...RightScale
The media is highlighting scores of stories about companies that have moved from one public cloud to another for business or technical reasons. Regardless of whether you are running on AWS, Azure, or Google, there will likely come a time that you’ll want to consider switching cloud providers. Whether you are contemplating a move now or just want to keep your options open in the future, you will need to consider a variety of cost, service, and technical factors. In this webinar, we’ll walk you through the evaluation process of migrating to another cloud provider and highlight the pros and cons.
This document discusses Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and key things to consider when choosing a DRaaS provider. It notes that DRaaS involves replicating servers and applications to the cloud to provide failover in the event of downtime. It then lists 8 key factors such as getting a performance SLA, understanding variable costs between providers, coupling DRaaS with data protection, paying only for resources used, cloud seeding options, protecting cloud apps, including automated test recoveries, and advantages of purpose-built DRaaS clouds.
You’re an IT Pro, so you know no one in the office is going to thank you because nothing failed today. But you deal with an onslaught of potential technology breakdowns all the time. Ransomware, natural disasters, backup failures, sabotage by disgruntled employees and so forth. Unitrends protects your data from all these digital monsters so you can sleep better at night.
NetBackup CloudCatalyst – efficient, cost-effective deduplication to the cloudVeritas Technologies LLC
Is your organization looking for a more efficient, cost-effective way to use public and private cloud storage as a backup target? Attend this session to find out how CloudCatalyst can help, by providing deduplication of backup data to object storage environments in both public and private clouds. You'll learn how you can use CloudCatalyst to achieve petabyte scale with minimal cache storage requirements, transfer data from a NetBackup Dedupe Media Server without going through a rehydration process, and much more. Don't miss this chance find out exactly how CloudCatalyst provides the most efficient and cost-effective backups from a data center, to the cloud, or in the cloud.
Denodo Platform for AWS 30 day free trial: https://goo.gl/15JPHS
Denodo Platform for Azure 30 day free trial: https://goo.gl/xEzTki
The Denodo Cloud Survey was conducted in December, 2017 to gain insight into how organizations are using Cloud platforms, such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
The survey sought input from a diverse group of technical people, including enterprise architects, data architects, IT heads of department, such as Head of Analytics or BI Director, and some VP/CTO level respondents (see Slide 3 for breakdown).
The respondents were largely located throughout North America and Europe.
Implement DevOps Like a Unicorn—Even If You’re Not OneTechWell
Etsy, Netflix, and the unicorns have done great things with DevOps. Although most people don't work at a unicorn, they still want to combine agility and stability. To close the gap between developers and operations, Mason Leung says his company runs operation workshops, blogs about infrastructure, and experiments with different tools—and are solving the same problems as the unicorns only on a smaller scale. Mason explains that you don't get to millions of requests without going through the first several hundred. Ideas you can take from unicorns include how to use containers to enhance development experience, how to avoid production meltdown with continuous deployment, how to tame infrastructure gone wild, why “new shiny” is not always the correct solution, and why putting all your eggs in a cloud service provider is a good idea. There is no single, correct way to DevOps. By observing the unicorns and applying the lessons to your situation, your DevOps journey can be less volatile and more fulfilling as you prepare for the hypergrowth.
Native cloud applications require the same levels of protection, visibility, and recovery as on prem services. Yet all too often, organizations end up making risky or unacceptable compromises when it comes to their cloud data. Join this session to make sure this never happens to you. You'll learn how a new family of Veritas Cloud Data Protection solutions can provide complete, seamless data support for all of your native AWS, Azure, and Google applications and dramatically simplify your cloud management strategy.
The document discusses establishing a cloud policy framework for governance. It describes challenges with a bring-your-own-tools approach and proposes implementing policies as code with defined triggers, conditions, actions, and targets. Examples are provided for security, reliability, and cost policies. Automating policy evaluation and reporting on metrics is suggested for effective governance.
Eliminate the need for additional media servers and reduce your data footprint. NetBackup is truly the “King of Scale,” with the ability to protect 1000s of VMs. Direct integration with Veritas Data Insight and Availability Solutions solves challenges around copy sprawl and information insight.
NetBackup CloudCatalyst: Efficient, Cost-Effective Deduplication to the CloudVeritas Technologies LLC
Is your organization looking for a more efficient, cost-effective way to use public and private cloud storage as a backup target? Attend this session to find out how CloudCatalyst can help--by providing deduplication of backup data to object storage environments in both public and private clouds. You'll learn how you can use CloudCatalyst to achieve petabyte scale with minimal cache storage requirements, transfer data from a NetBackup Dedupe Media Server without going through a rehydration process, and much more. Don't miss this chance find out exactly how CloudCatalyst provides the most efficient and cost-effective backups from a data center, to the cloud, or in the cloud.
Using RightScale CMP with Cloud Provider ToolsRightScale
Large organizations are using cloud management platforms (CMPs) to manage and govern multi-cloud environments. They need their CMPs to work regardless of the cloud provider tools used by development teams, including AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and container services. We will show how RightScale CMP can add operation orchestration and governance regardless of how you provision your workloads.
Technical Best Practices for Veritas and Microsoft Azure Using a Detailed Ref...Veritas Technologies LLC
Explore best practices around the following use cases related to the Microsoft Azure platform: Long-term retention of data in the cloud, migration of critical workloads including those running in VMware and Hyper-V, and resiliency of business services running in the cloud. Each of these scenarios are part of what Veritas 360 data management in the cloud can provide. Learn the best way to design, deploy, and manage within each of these scenarios on Azure, and gain key insights into how to avoid pitfalls of common practices and how to boost your cloud ROI – demonstrated via a reference architecture.
Enterprise Cloud Strategy - Facts, FAQs and Implementation StepsMarianne Harness
Today's time for every enterprise, it becomes necessary to implement a cloud migration to decrease expenditure, maintenance of the data center. Understand and develop an enterprise cloud. Here is a guide for Enterprise Cloud Strategy that includes Facts, FAQs, and Implementation Steps. Visit https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/enterprise-cloud-strategy/
- Uncover patterns of success and challenges to define a recipe for what makes a “Cloud Leader”
- Provide actionable takeaways and best practices for organisations throughout their cloud adoption and maturity journey
- Take a deep dive into “how” leaders are actually achieving success
DELWP’s Data Lake: Investing in Asset Wealth for Public/Community Benefit – B...Amazon Web Services
In the last 10 years, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) has procured half a petabyte of aerial photography, satellite imagery, and point cloud data worth more than $45million. In addition, a range of faster products critical to the delivery of services are produced continuously. DELWP’s faster data needs is expected to grow overtime and an enterprise system to manage, publish and enable discovery and analysis of this growing catalogue is essential.
Find out how DELWP is implementing pioneering data science strategies to successfully integrate disparate systems and data silos, reduce risks and increase compliance, and support a rapid pace of innovation to improve DELWP’s services to the Victorian public.
Project Manager with DELWP’s Digital First program, Alena Moison will share the department’s journey through digital transformation, key successes and learning points, as well as how they worked with Bulletproof to implement solutions on AWS.
Speakers:
Giles Bill, Bulletproof Networks
Sam Mason, Bulletproof Networks
Alena Moison, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
Be Proactive, Not Reactive: Cloud Governance for Fast, Accurate Decision MakingCloudHealth by VMware
As your public cloud or hybrid environment starts to scale, it’s easy to lose track of all the moving parts. Reclaim time for more strategic projects by implementing cloud governance policies. In this session, we’ll show you how to proactively alert on any irregularities, such as cost spikes, tagging compliance issues, security vulnerabilities and more. We’ll share real world examples of how different organizations have successfully simplified their daily cloud operations through governance — including our experience managing our own infrastructure.
The document discusses how data has become the world's most valuable resource and how organizations can leverage their data through modern data infrastructure and a multi-cloud strategy. It highlights IBM's portfolio of software-defined storage and cloud solutions that provide agility, security, and help unlock the full value of organizations' data across private and public clouds. These solutions include IBM Spectrum Storage, IBM Cloud Object Storage, IBM FlashSystem storage arrays, and IBM Cloud Private for building AI and hybrid cloud applications.
This document summarizes a company called ACS that provides a mobile data center solution using cryogenic cooling technology. Some key points:
1) ACS's technology can cut operating costs by over 50% compared to traditional data centers by using cryogenic cooling to reach temperatures as low as -176°F, reducing cooling energy needs by over 85%.
2) Their mobile data center solution reduces the time to set up a fully operational 2MW data center from around 30 months to just 20 weeks.
3) Financial projections estimate the technology could save over $735,000 in power costs for customers in the first year by drastically reducing cooling energy requirements.
Containerized storage for CI/CD Pipeline and DevOps - why, how, huh? What is wrong w/ stateful workloads on containers today? What is happening at the Linux kernel to improve the security of containers as a platform FOR storage? Could containers and Kubernetes become the foundations of a new approach to storage? How to deal with storage in multi-cloud environment. Quick view into the OpenEBS project.
Murat Karslioglu is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and startup geek with over 15 years of experience in storage, distributed systems, and enterprise software development. He is currently the VP of Solutions and Technology at CloudByte / OpenEBS, a startup developing open-source containerized storage for containers.
Prior to joining CloudByte, Murat has worked at Hewlett Packard Enterprise / 3PAR Storage in various advanced development projects including storage file stack performance optimization and the storage management stack for HPE’s Hyper-converged solution. Murat holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Sakarya University.
World Wide Technology: Is backing up to the cloud right for you?Angie Clark
Data protection and retention is critically important for commercial and public sector organizations alike. In fact, it is said that three things keep a CIO up at night: data failure, time to recovery and ensuring IT is able to meet recovery point objectives.
Today, if you have a failure, the amount of time the business is without the data can determine if you need to start looking for a new job…
This presentation will help the attendees:
• Evaluate the business case for targeting your backups to the cloud
• Identify candidate data sets for cloud backup and assess opportunities and readiness
• Mitigate the challenges of backing up to the cloud
• Build a roadmap to your cloud implementation
WWT also provides some real-world experience via use cases and introduces several tools and methodologies used to evaluate, plan and execute your journey to cloud backup in this presentation.
To find out more about WWT’s Data Protection team, log on to wwt.com.
This document provides an overview of Veritas NetBackup 8.1, which offers improved data protection capabilities for multi-cloud environments, modern workloads, and resilient infrastructure. Key features highlighted include leveraging multiple cloud platforms for long-term storage, faster backup to the cloud, protection for scale-out workloads and hyperconverged environments, simplified deployment and maintenance, and enhanced data security across networks. NetBackup 8.1 also features integrated support for popular databases and big data platforms through its use of flexible policies and frameworks.
Should You Move Between AWS, Azure, or Google Clouds? Considerations, Pros an...RightScale
The media is highlighting scores of stories about companies that have moved from one public cloud to another for business or technical reasons. Regardless of whether you are running on AWS, Azure, or Google, there will likely come a time that you’ll want to consider switching cloud providers. Whether you are contemplating a move now or just want to keep your options open in the future, you will need to consider a variety of cost, service, and technical factors. In this webinar, we’ll walk you through the evaluation process of migrating to another cloud provider and highlight the pros and cons.
This document discusses Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and key things to consider when choosing a DRaaS provider. It notes that DRaaS involves replicating servers and applications to the cloud to provide failover in the event of downtime. It then lists 8 key factors such as getting a performance SLA, understanding variable costs between providers, coupling DRaaS with data protection, paying only for resources used, cloud seeding options, protecting cloud apps, including automated test recoveries, and advantages of purpose-built DRaaS clouds.
You’re an IT Pro, so you know no one in the office is going to thank you because nothing failed today. But you deal with an onslaught of potential technology breakdowns all the time. Ransomware, natural disasters, backup failures, sabotage by disgruntled employees and so forth. Unitrends protects your data from all these digital monsters so you can sleep better at night.
Reports like the new DCIG Backup Appliance Buyers’ Guide cover how you can eliminate the time and effort needed to deploy and manage multiple disjointed products across vendors. But what exactly should you look for in a backup appliance and what features can you not live without?
This document discusses factors to consider when choosing a cloud for enterprise-level continuity. It outlines 5 critical success factors: 1) understand your needs, 2) select the right cloud storage strategy, 3) avoid unnecessary compute costs, 4) plan for failback, and 5) keep on-premises needs in mind. It then summarizes Unitrends' cloud disaster recovery solution Boomerang, which replicates VMs to cloud storage with no compute usage for replication and allows failover and failback with one click. Finally, it recommends next steps of remembering the 5 use cases and 5 critical success factors and exploring Unitrends' solutions on their website.
On-premises, in the cloud – your data is everywhere plus it’s changing. How can you stop worrying about backup and choose the right backup architecture to make your data available instantly to anyone at anytime?
The document discusses how finger pointing between vendors is a common problem with traditional backup solutions but can be eliminated by adopting a true all-in-one approach. It advocates looking for a single vendor that can provide an integrated appliance with local and cloud backup capabilities along with recovery assurance for physical and virtual workloads. A true all-in-one solution from one vendor provides more confidence, flexibility, and uptime compared to solutions that rely on multiple components from different vendors.
Haunted by Your Backup Renewal: 4 Questions to Ask First marketingunitrends
You’ve been with your current backup vendor for years and your renewal contract hasn’t changed but the technology you manage has. With growing challenges and emerging technologies, it’s hard to keep on top of changes that could increase your recovery time while still working within your existing budget. It’s time to make sure you have the right strategy and the right technology to keep your business running.
Designing a Bad A$$ Backup Target without Breaking the Bankmarketingunitrends
Backup storage is a critical component of any enterprise data protection. Most people want to throw their backups at the oldest piece of hardware they own, but they quickly see that doesn’t work out very well. So what are the best ways to design a cost-effective backup target?
Downtime or data loss is never an option. Yet increasing IT complexity, rising costs and the need for solutions to seamlessly span virtual, physical and cloud workloads have all contributed to a dramatic fall in IT's confidence to recover from a disruptive event. Discover the 7 New Rules of Recovery and how a new approach to continuity can keep your business running – no matter what.
Microsoft Azure & Continuity: 5 Use Cases and Success Factorsmarketingunitrends
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.
Disaster Recovery Best Practices and Customer Use Cases: CGS and Health Quest...Amazon Web Services
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I appreciate you joining today - Hope not to take too much of your time
As Kevin said my name is … and I am the Product Marketing Manager for Unitrends.
Part of my time is managing our Customer Success Program. Talk to many customers per week about their DR Experiences.
Want to take the next 30 minutes or so sharing DR best practices and the results our customers are having with data protection and recovery.
First I wanted to share the results of the most recent survey we did on Disaster Recovery & the Cloud. The results will help you understand where we are in DR and why the cloud is such an attractive option.
Then I will outline the different types of clouds and show how they are, in fact quite different when it comes to DR Services and support
Finally I will outline three factors which you should consider to keep your Cloud DR program from becoming its own Disaster
First we have the results from our recent survey of Data backup and cloud
838 IT professionals participated in the Unitrends survey
Good mix of SMB and lg enterprise
Conclusions:
Progress is being made in some areas but overall data protection and business continuity remains a challenge
Cloud is playing an increasing, but still minor role in disaster recovery
However, many organizations are not even following minimal best practices. For example only about 12% test their DR plans at least once a month. This is an area that needs a lot of improvement.
Data centers are growing in complexity. Most companies are protecting a heterogeneous environment with a mix of physical servers with different Operating systems and Virtual environments with at least two different vendors.
This increase demonstrates the need for a single solution that can cover everything as using different backup and recovery solutions creates seems where data and apps can slip through.
One challenge faced by all industries is the growing size of corporate IT environments. One of the biggest challenges is the growing volume of data needing protection.
With similar-sized organization responding in both 2016 and 2017, 13% more respondents reported being tasked to protect data volumes between 26 and 100TB, and 54% more are mandated to protect volumes over 100TB.
Without the right backup and recovery tools, growing data volumes makes the entire business continuity process longer, more complex and costly.
IT professionals understand that setting a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the first step to managing downtime. An RTO goal means that you at least have a recovery program, measure your results and take steps to improve your performance.
62% of survey respondents reported having aggressive RTOs of 4 hours or less, with over half of those respondents reporting RTO times of 1 hour or less.
These RTOs are coming at a time where IT professionals have less time and more budgetary pressure in their jobs. While some reported they weren’t always able to meet those RTO objectives, at least setting a goal, measuring results and working towards improvement signal a commitment to protecting company assets.
What is perhaps most surprising is that 5% of respondents reported they have RTO goals over 24 hours, which is a very long time for a business to be off-line. A whopping 10% reported having no RTO goals at all, which indicates a total lack of recovery planning and verification.
Data loss continues to be an issue for large portion of the IT community. Consistently about one third or=f respondents said they have lost data in the last two years. Depending on the volume and type of data this can be a real hit on businesses.
Only a well executed data protecting and business continuity plan and following best practices can solve this challenge.
And here is the most surprising finding from the survey in my opinion - 62% of organizations do not test more than once a year or not at all.
How can anyone say that they actually have a DR plan or an RTO without testing what a recovery would look like?
Servers, operating systems, settings, data and software need to be aligned before a business application can be brought back on-line. If any one piece is out of step the entire process will fail and critical business applications will remain down.
The good news is that there are strong tools to make recovery testing automatic and easy, with high quality reports to identify what part of the process is not ready to recover. Many industries such as healthcare require all companies to know and document their recovery times. Only 10% of respondents reported testing their DR plans at least once a month so they can be sure they will recover from a downtime event. Most backup professionals would recommend DR testing much more frequently.
If you are looking for the organizations that lose data it has to include the people who don’t test their DR plans
Finally 80% of responding companies are not currently using cloud and have no plans to do so into the next year.
The top four reasons given were cost (52%), security (45%), loss of control (39%) and data privacy (31%).
Editorial comment - These are some old tapes as many organizations and cloud providers have moved past these issues: Cloud providers have come a long way in enabling their products to meet security requirements as many are already certified to handle medical (HIPAA), financial (SOX) and personal information. Data can be encrypted with military grade AES-256 security for in-transit or at rest data protection. Many cloud providers also have SSAE 16 certification for physical security. WAN optimization features reduce the impact of clouds on data networks.
Okay so we have determined that a majority of enterprises are already using the cloud. But there are several versions of a clouds and you need to understand each type to see which best fits your DR needs.
So let’s consider an organization needing data protection and business continuity services.
First you have what most people consider to be the cloud – large hyperscale clouds including, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Oracle, Rackspace, NTT, Alibaba are also players
Hyperscale computing refers to provisioning required in to efficiently scale from a few servers to thousands of servers. Hyperscale computing is usually used in environments such as big data and cloud computing. – It basically means that you can scale out with no limit on the number of resources or servers you use.
A service provider cloud is cloud services offered by an MSP (Managed Service Provider), CSPs (Content Service Providers - content is hosted by the service provider centrally and offered to number of consumers that need the content delivered into any applications or systems) or SSPs (storage service provider).
There are thousands of these and they usually focus on specific markets or services they offer.
And then we have clouds that focus on continuity services such as Unitrends Cloud.
These clouds focus their services on what it takes to provide near-instantaneous recovery times. We offer DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) and act as your failover site in case of a declared emergency in your primary site.
Unitrends Forever Cloud also does long term data storage but we are different from Amazon Glazier in that they may require to 4 hours to recover your archived files. We can use the files you sent for long term storage for instant application recovery.
In actuality Unitrends works with all forms of cloud. For example our Boomerang product moves functioning VMware VMs into and out of hyperscale clouds very inexpensively and very quickly.
I want to point out the secondary site that is in this image. Although outside of the topic of this webcast this is a very large part of the DR market. 50% of our survey respondents reported using a secondary site or colo as their recovery site. This is ideal for companies with multiple locations and data centers that they already fund. Our Recovery Series appliances and Unitrends Backup virtual appliances are ideal for supporting a multi-site DR program.
However for SMB organizations doing business from a single location, the Cloud is ideal and much more cost effective than either a colo or funding a secondary location as you have to purchase the servers and storage rather than paying for just what you use in the cloud.
However – which cloud offering is really the best to support your DR program.
There are a lot of factors to consider
We have discussed the need to test DR–automated,
Look at what the tests cover
Do they simply look at whether individual applications or data sets are restored or are operations tested to verify that they operate as expected?
Are reports of the results available that can be used for audit purposes?
We discussed security a bit –
Do they support Encryption
Access, privacy controls
Industry specific compliance such as SSAE 16 SOC 2 used by the American Institute of CPAs. Ask them to show proof of certification.
Other criteria to consider when selecting a cloud vendor.
Flexibility What is your ability to move & change cloud vendors. grows, merges with another, determines that a better offer is available from another cloud provider, etc. How complex or easy is it to move archives from one cloud to another? When purchasing backup/restore appliances, do they support multiple cloud options.
Reputation – For how long have they been established? What type of support is provided?
What type of SLA can they provide? We touched upon uptime & recovery time requirements.
Look at data soverenty? Does your data need to be located within particular countries or conversely not allowed in particular regions? Esp. in banking industry.
Can applications actually be spun up in the cloud?
Can multi-tier environments with dependencies among systems & particular work flows be operationalized in the cloud?
Let’s look more deeply into some of these questions
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Hard to categorize MSP clouds as there are literally thousands of them. Some are very good and we work with some of them
However many are small, focused on just a few applications and those specific recovery needs
One word of caution is if your backup solution provider partners with an MSP cloud provider you now have two vendors you have to trust and work with. Sometimes identifying a problem and isolating it to one or the other vendor is an issue so you want to work with a single vendor that offers the entire solution – backup appliance, cloud, services - everything
You just have to be careful in working with them as they are a very mixed bag.
So let’s sort out the different disaster recovery offerings between hyperscale cloud providers and Unitrends Cloud.
We will focus on three aspects of the benefits – services offered, the speed of recovery and cost of data protection and recovery
Needless to say Unitrends Cloud is totally focused on data protection and recovery services. While all cloud vendors will allow you to store your data there Unitrends offers other services you need to recover.
Recovery: Unitrends Recovery Assurance delivers automated recovery testing, both locally and in the Unitrends Cloud. Recovery Assurance software works with your backup appliances to automatically test and certify your recovery objectives and SLAs ahead of time. This is the antidote to costly and time consuming testing as this can be automated.
Physical Seeding – Minimize data transfer time and cost by Unitrends a disk of your data for seeding in the cloud. This optional services quickly establishes your initial data set with no headaches or long waits on data transfer over the Internet – minimizing the impact on your network.
24-hour Data Ship SLA - Unitrends Cloud offers 24-hour SLAs on shipping data back to the customer. You can be running your applications in the Unitrends Cloud, and if you have TB of data that need to be restored to your data center, we can create a file on media of your choice and ship it to you to save the time and network impact of transferring this large volume of data.
White Glove Services – Unitrends Service organization is focused on data protection and recovery services. A call to our service center initiates many of these services and we cover your entire backup and recovery solution – no finger pointing required.
Pricing – one low price per GB of data – no extra or hidden fees.
Also we offer two DRaaS services: Unlimited and Premium which has a 1 hour spin-up SLA and includes Recovery Assurance so you can test as often as you wish. In truth our recovery times are more measured in seconds and minutes but the hour is for you to communicate in your organization.
WAN optimization – Unitrends Deduplication combines inline & global byte-level data deduplication to get great compression rates. Unitrends adaptive data deduplication is an integrated part of all our backup appliances. It optimizes capacity utilization, minimizes backup times, and maximizes retention.
Faster RTO: Both AWS Cloud and Azure use an internal process to move data between their archive and recovery infrastructure that requires the system to send back the data via an internal WAN connection. And low cost cold storage options like Amazon Glacier can take up to 4 hours to access your first byte of data.
Our services are one point on which we are very proud.
Our service techs reside in Columbia SC and are co-located with our engineering team
They cover all our products so you literally make one call to cover your entire solution
We have a 98% customer satisfaction rating
We use predictive analytic software to anticipate hardware and software issues, fixing many before you even know you have an issue.
Unitrends Recovery Assurance ensures recovery in seconds or minutes.
We discussed the importance of testing already. Don’t have time for manual testing? Automatically run a disaster recovery test to see reports and statistics revealing how an outage would impact business continuity, and how much data your business might lose. If the automated DR tests show that you can’t meet your SLAs, make adjustments in your backup process and re-run the tests to check the changes.
Finally price
First both AWS and Azure charge a per Gb fee for recovery – Unitrends does not
We have priced out three different scenarios and you can see the wide variance in price across the three scenarios. Unitrends pricing is designed to support data protection and recovery services.
We have on our web site a cloud cost calculator.
You can vary the scenarios and make the variables represent your specific requirements.
We also offer backup and protection for Microsoft Office 365 – Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive
Recover a lost email in seconds instead of hours with fast search and an intuitive interface built for recovery. Restore calendars, contacts, or entire mailboxes, which you can’t do with Office 365’s built-in archiving and backup tools.
The details of how it works.
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
Let’s see the big picture on how Unitrends is transforming continuity;
We deploy virtual or physical backup appliances to your primary data center location. With instant recovery options for VMs and windows servers; you have the ability to recover full servers within minutes at the push of a button. To efficiently move data offsite; Unitrends includes a powerful replication engine that will only replicate compressed and deduplicated data changes.
We have covered the Unitrends cloud offerings. Using the data already stored in our Forever Cloud, Unitrends can spin up VMs and physical windows servers within a 1 hour or less SLA so that you can keep your business running. We leverage the Recovery Assurance technology to ensure your bckup’s are recoverable and provide you a monthly testing report so you have the piece of mind that your ideas, data, and applications are safe.
Most people I speak with want fewer vendors, more complete solutions that take less time to manage, and something that they ultimately trust will work. If you get all that, then you’re ahead of the game and can probably relax a bit.
A quick view of our solutions:
You require out-of-the-box integration
If you tried to put together your own solution (that is what some vendors require you to do) it could require at least 9-10 components and then you would have tons of interoperability issues
The image is our Recovery Series all-in-one hardware backup and continuity appliance
Unitrends has our own cloud but also integrates with AWS and Azure
Unitrends is the #1 All-in-One Enterprise Backup and Continuity provider in the industry
Our advantages over the competition:
One vendor; one throat to choke
Less work - rack, connect, and go
Local & cloud continuity with recovery assurance
More security; purpose-built hardened Linux
Unified & higher customer satisfaction; more confidence
It is that simple
Here’s some third party validation.
The 2017 reports just published by Gartner, Unitrends was the only company listed in their the Enterprise Backup MQ, their DRaaS MQ and their report on IT Resilience Automation Orchestration.
And the in the 2017 DCIG Buyers Guide Unitrends had More recommended models than all other vendors combined and more Excellent models than all other vendors combined
We have some resources that might interest you if you want more information:
We have free trials of both our hardware and software backup and business continuity appliances. Go to our website and click on free-downloads.
We have demos and links to contact experts who can go deeper into the solutions I described for you today.
Now back to Kevin to host the Q & A portion of the webcast.