The document discusses business continuity and disaster recovery in the cloud. It notes that approximately 40% of organizations still use tape backup, though cloud solutions are becoming more popular. The cloud provides flexibility, lean deployment models, and performance that allows for affordable business continuity for mid-sized enterprises. Specifically, the cloud allows environments to be spun up quickly on demand and then scaled up or down as needed. It also reduces infrastructure requirements through techniques like DNS management and geo-IP routing for local performance.

1. Business Continuity
In The Cloud
Daniel Beazer
Director of Strategy
Internet World
24 April

2. Business Continuity in the Cloud
THE LANDSCAPE TODAY
Business Continuity Today
• Approximately 40% of organisations use tape (EMC data)
• A legacy practice which will survive for some time
• Tape is cheap
• Tape is familiar and easy manage (for example with patching multiple environments)
• AWS Glacier rumoured to use Spectralogic tape libraries to help lower costs
• Large organisations/companies operate large business continuity regimes
usually for regulatory reasons
• UK wholesale data centre market driven by banks seeking DR
• Phantom trading floors near Heathrow airport
• Many companies have no DR at all
• sub 1,000 employees about half have no plans in place at all (Symantec survey)

3. Business Continuity in the Cloud
THE LANDSCAPE TODAY
Not Just RTO and RPO
• Availability is underestimated
• Read the SLA to make sure it covers everything
• As data sets become larger, network can be a serious bottleneck
• 10TB over 10mb takes 10 days
• Data centre concentration
• Some data more important than others
• Not always the CEO’s email
• HR, university counselor, sales staff
• Endpoints may need back up (BYOD)

4. Business Continuity in the Cloud
THE SOLUTION
Enter Cloud Business Continuity
• Brings a live-live environment to a price point that makes business
continuity affordable for mid size enterprise for the first time
• Three reasons:
FLEXIBILITY
LEAN DEPLOYMENT
PERFORMANCE

5. Business Continuity in the Cloud
THE SOLUTION
Flexibility
• Business continuity environment can be spun up in very short period of time
• Use case: major product launch, impending natural
• Can be taken down quickly, matches use to cost exactly
• Can be scaled up and down to match importance/sensitivity of data
• Less sensitive data backed up by snapshot more sensitive using full live/live environment

6. Business Continuity in the Cloud
THE SOLUTION
Lean Deployment and Performance
• Using DNS management to reduce server requirements
• GeoIP to improve local performance
• High performance cloud platform means fewer resources are required

7. Business Continuity in the Cloud
VISUALISED

8. Business Continuity in the Cloud
WRAP UP
Thank You
Questions?
Daniel Beazer
Email
daniel.beazer@firehost.com
Twitter twitter.com/beazerd