The document discusses disaster recovery (DR) strategies and introduces the Quorum onQ solution. It begins by looking at common approaches to DR like traditional backup and recovery, cloud backup, and replicated datacenters. Each approach has considerations around restore times, bandwidth limitations, and complexity. The document advocates for a modern DR solution that provides full confidence in high availability, DR and failover/failback processes. It then introduces the Quorum onQ solution which features one-click recovery of physical or virtual servers, storage-transparent backups, and fast recovery of data and applications through ready-to-run clones.

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Breaking the
Disaster Recovery (DR) Mold
Matt Law
Sr. Product Marketing Manager

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IT Spending Priorities 2014
“Midsized organizations need the same kind of data protection capabilities that enterprises have
demanded for years. Actually, they don’t need the same petabyte-level scalability or massive I/O
power, but they absolutely do need the same agility of recovery.“

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Perceived Value in the Cloud
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Squeezing More Out of Cloud Backup
“In 2015, enterprise online backup providers
must either make the leap to … (DRaaS) and
provide workload availability in addition to data
protection, or prepare to suffer a similar fate to
Symantec Backup Exec cloud.”

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What Problem are We Actually Solving?
Backup or Back Up?
Back Up or Backup?

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Disaster Recovery Defined
Disaster recovery (DR)
– set of policies and procedures to enable the
recovery or continuation of vital
technology infrastructure and systems
following a natural or human-induced disaster
– focuses on the IT or technology systems
supporting critical business functions
– subset of business continuity, which involves
keeping all essential aspects of a business
functioning despite significant disruptive
events

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Information Systems Threatened by Any Number
of Disruptions
Natural
disaster
5%
Hardware
failure
55%
Software
failure
18%
Human
error
22%
Account
for 95% of
system
downtime
Business IT Disaster Recovery
Sizzle…
Poof!

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Cost of Downtime? Do You Know? If Not, Why It’s
Important That You Do.
COST PER HOUR
$4,380,000
$888,000
$798,000
$756,000
$690,000
$372,000
$282,000
$114,000

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Common Approaches to DR

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Traditional Backup and Recovery (BAR)
“More than 50% of the time, a full recovery
attempt from tape will result in failure.”
Hurwitz and Associates
Considerations
• Was all data written?
• Can it be read?
• How to be certain?
• Lengthy restores
• Hours? Days?
• Testing
• Inconvenient and
infrequent
• Media management and
security
• Onsite
• Offsite
Traditional BAR
LTO-6

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Cloud Backup
Cloud Backup (data) 3TB download? Painfully slow.
RTO?
>6 months @1.5 Mb/s
>3 days @100 Mb/s
Considerations
• Longer restore time
• Limited download
bandwidth
• Waiting for media
shipment
• SLA?
x xx

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Replicated Datacenter
WAN Replicated
Datacenter
Primary
Datacenter
Considerations
• Cost
• Complexity
• Management
Source: http://basho.com/multi-datacenter-replication-backups-and-data-locality/

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What Should We Look for
in a Modern DR Solution?

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Faced with Disruption… Typical IT Decision Tree
• Disruption in service?
• Which services, and to what extent?
• Severity level? Impact on users?
Verify
• Detective work
• What caused the issue?
• Network? Power? OS? Malware? Etc.
Troubleshoot
• Service disruption?
• Time to recover?
• Trust in failback?
Failover or Fix
How can we make this better?

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How a Modern Approach to DR Can Help
• Disruption in service?
• Which services, and to what extent?
• Severity level? Impact on users?
Verify
• Service disruption?
• Time to recover?
• Trust in failback?
Failover or Fix
A Modern DR Solution:
• Relieves pressure
• Provides full confidence in HA, DR and the failover/failback process
• Provides freedom to troubleshoot and fix issues on your timeline – while keeping users happy
• Protects your reputation
• Detective work
• What caused the issue?
• Network? Power? OS? Malware? Etc.
Troubleshoot
Faster restoration of services!
At your convenience!

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Quick Recap
• What bad things happen?
• Look for a solution that truly reduces your
downtime
• What’s under the cover? Commercial or
consumer-grade?
• Key capabilities
• Efficient backups
• Storage savings
• Easy movement of data and server
images offsite
• Fast recovery of data and applications
• Ease of testing local HA and remote DR
• Value beyond primary functionality –
faster ROI
• Future-proof... avoid surprises

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Introducing Quorum

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Quorum onQ Key Features

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onQ Instant Recovery Protects Your Business
User
LAN
Key Features
One Click Recovery
Physical or Virtual
Storage Transparent
File Level Restore
(Replace backup software)
HA Appliance
(on-prem)
Optional Archive
Vault
(on-prem)

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onQ Instant Recovery Protects Your Business
User
One-Click
• Any Web
Client
• User
Transparent
LAN
Key Features
One-Click Recovery
Physical or Virtual
Storage Transparent
File Level Restore
(Replace backup software)
onQ Ready to Run
Clones:
Recover in minutes
and troubleshoot on
your timeline
HA Appliance (on-prem)

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onQ Instant Recovery Protects Your Business
DRaaS
DR Cloud Service
(or via on-prem
appliance)
Optional
Archive
Vault
User
LAN
VPN
Protection Before,
During and After
Outages
• Continued protection
throughout HA and
DR failover system
usage

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