When planning for Disaster Recovery it is essential to have a clearly defined set of objectives that are based on your businesses needs .InTechnology's Product Director for Data & Cloud Services, Stefan Haase, provides tips for any business to consider when putting together their disaster recovery plan. http://www.intechnology.co.uk/resource-centre/webcast-disaster-recovery-planning.aspx
Great overview of how businesses can plan and be prepared for disasters so that they can minimize cost and downtime. This Powerpoint presentation covers how to build a DR team, set recovery goals and objectives, identifying gaps, selecting technologies, and implementing and maintaining Disaster Recovery Processes. This Presentation also discusses Best Practices that companies should be using to protect themselves and their customers.
Recorded webinar presentation. E xigent Technologies of Mount Arlington, NJ / Manhattan, NY. "Managed Backup & Disaster Recovery service for Small Business".
PREVENT Webinar is hosted by Exigent Technologies President, Dan Haurey. March 3, 2009, 10:00AM.
Great overview of how businesses can plan and be prepared for disasters so that they can minimize cost and downtime. This Powerpoint presentation covers how to build a DR team, set recovery goals and objectives, identifying gaps, selecting technologies, and implementing and maintaining Disaster Recovery Processes. This Presentation also discusses Best Practices that companies should be using to protect themselves and their customers.
Recorded webinar presentation. E xigent Technologies of Mount Arlington, NJ / Manhattan, NY. "Managed Backup & Disaster Recovery service for Small Business".
PREVENT Webinar is hosted by Exigent Technologies President, Dan Haurey. March 3, 2009, 10:00AM.
VEEAM Backup & Replication vs. StarWind Virtual SAN: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Run Entirely by RTO / RPO Numbers
Find out how to pick the right tools to meet the business continuity challenges and take full control of your RTO and RPO.
You are welcomed to watch the webcast based on this slide presentation: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/veeam-backup-and-replication-vs-starwind-virtual-san-video
When assessing backup software vendors, IT leaders must avoid being taken in by flashy new features. Backup software should really be called restore software as failure in backup is failure to meet recovery objectives. Always evaluate features in light of these objectives.
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•Understand new features and develop a strategy to meet new challenges to enterprise backup, such as ever-increasing backup sizes, backup of virtual infrastructures, and evolving backup architecture strategy.
•Evaluate eight different backup software vendors for best fit using Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape.
•Use Info-Tech’s scenario analysis to shortlist vendors according to your current situation and submit an RFP to vendors, score their responses, and prepare a backup software demo script.
•Assess implementation pitfalls in light of overall data management, security, and compliance requirements.
Ensure that you make the best-fit backup software decisions for enterprise availability and restore requirements, from strategy to selection to implementation.
9 Best Practices for Data Center MaintenanceSunbird DCIM
Data center maintenance is critical to keep your facility up and running smoothly. Given the importance of your data center, DCIM experts at Sunbird bring forward some best practices for maintenance. Our DCIM experts have worked for years in the data center industry. Here's what we've learned from our own experiences and from our customers.
Deep Dive into Disaster Recovery in the CloudBluelock
Learn how Recovery-as-a-Service actually works. Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service is the latest in disaster recovery technology. Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) is the ideal on-ramp to cloud to solve your need to recover quickly, easily and efficiently after a disaster strikes.
LEARN HOW TO:
- Seed or migrate your data to the cloud
- Set your RTO and RPO policies
- Recover an app remotely or across the country
- Assess workloads and size your project
- Budget for cloud-based DR
Nuestro informe Global Risk Landscape 2016 revela que el 87% de los líderes empresariales consideran que
el mundo se ha convertido en un lugar con mayor riesgo. Para la realización de este estudio, que se inició a
comienzos de 2016, BDO ha consultado a 500 altos directivos de las principales empresas de 44 países de
Europa, Oriente Medio, África, Asia y América acerca de lo que consideran que son los mayores riesgos a los que
enfrentan sus empresas en la actualidad y en el futuro.
Para más de la mitad (56 %) de los líderes empresariales encuestados, la mayor amenaza es el aumento
de la competencia, seguida por la desaceleración económica (43%) y la interrupción del negocio (42 %).
La mitigación del riesgo se ha convertido en una cuestión primordial para la mayor parte de las empresas
consultadas, mientras que la creación de valor es visto como el mayor desafío global del futuro.
Devolución de cotizaciones a la Seguridad Social para AutónomosBDO Spain
El equipo de laboral de BDO ha diseñado una infografía para explicar qué requisitos deben cumplir los autónomos y trabajadores por cuenta ajena que quieran solicitar la devolución de ingresos a la Seguridad Social.
VEEAM Backup & Replication vs. StarWind Virtual SAN: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Run Entirely by RTO / RPO Numbers
Find out how to pick the right tools to meet the business continuity challenges and take full control of your RTO and RPO.
You are welcomed to watch the webcast based on this slide presentation: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/veeam-backup-and-replication-vs-starwind-virtual-san-video
When assessing backup software vendors, IT leaders must avoid being taken in by flashy new features. Backup software should really be called restore software as failure in backup is failure to meet recovery objectives. Always evaluate features in light of these objectives.
Use this research to:
•Understand new features and develop a strategy to meet new challenges to enterprise backup, such as ever-increasing backup sizes, backup of virtual infrastructures, and evolving backup architecture strategy.
•Evaluate eight different backup software vendors for best fit using Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape.
•Use Info-Tech’s scenario analysis to shortlist vendors according to your current situation and submit an RFP to vendors, score their responses, and prepare a backup software demo script.
•Assess implementation pitfalls in light of overall data management, security, and compliance requirements.
Ensure that you make the best-fit backup software decisions for enterprise availability and restore requirements, from strategy to selection to implementation.
9 Best Practices for Data Center MaintenanceSunbird DCIM
Data center maintenance is critical to keep your facility up and running smoothly. Given the importance of your data center, DCIM experts at Sunbird bring forward some best practices for maintenance. Our DCIM experts have worked for years in the data center industry. Here's what we've learned from our own experiences and from our customers.
Deep Dive into Disaster Recovery in the CloudBluelock
Learn how Recovery-as-a-Service actually works. Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service is the latest in disaster recovery technology. Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) is the ideal on-ramp to cloud to solve your need to recover quickly, easily and efficiently after a disaster strikes.
LEARN HOW TO:
- Seed or migrate your data to the cloud
- Set your RTO and RPO policies
- Recover an app remotely or across the country
- Assess workloads and size your project
- Budget for cloud-based DR
Nuestro informe Global Risk Landscape 2016 revela que el 87% de los líderes empresariales consideran que
el mundo se ha convertido en un lugar con mayor riesgo. Para la realización de este estudio, que se inició a
comienzos de 2016, BDO ha consultado a 500 altos directivos de las principales empresas de 44 países de
Europa, Oriente Medio, África, Asia y América acerca de lo que consideran que son los mayores riesgos a los que
enfrentan sus empresas en la actualidad y en el futuro.
Para más de la mitad (56 %) de los líderes empresariales encuestados, la mayor amenaza es el aumento
de la competencia, seguida por la desaceleración económica (43%) y la interrupción del negocio (42 %).
La mitigación del riesgo se ha convertido en una cuestión primordial para la mayor parte de las empresas
consultadas, mientras que la creación de valor es visto como el mayor desafío global del futuro.
Devolución de cotizaciones a la Seguridad Social para AutónomosBDO Spain
El equipo de laboral de BDO ha diseñado una infografía para explicar qué requisitos deben cumplir los autónomos y trabajadores por cuenta ajena que quieran solicitar la devolución de ingresos a la Seguridad Social.
This file was presented by me during the study circle meeting at the Mangalore Branch of Southern India Regional Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
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ISO 22301
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A short presentation of the essentials of business continuity planning. Often put on the back burner because it's seems too complex. Whereas the principles are quite straightforward.
Provided as is, without warranty, for businesses to consider as a very early starting point in the preparation of a business continuity plan. This work is based upon material delivered to University business students.
ISO 22301: The New Standard for Business Continuity Best PracticeMissionMode
ISO 22301 is the new international standard for Business Continuity Management best practice. It provides organizations with a framework to manage risk and ensure that they can continue operations in any type of event. In this webinar, ISO 22301 expert John McGill will help you understand the ISO standard, why it's important, and how to plan for certification.
Are your backups are too big, and do they take too long? Are you worried you won’t get all of your data back? Do you waste hours managing complicated, temperamental backup implementations? Join is as we discuss innovative ways to improve your backups, make them more predictable, shrink backup windows, over-perform on SLAs, and reliably recover your data—every time, on time. Hear how other organizations are developing smarter backup strategies that align their recovery requirements to their business objectives, reduce stored data by up to 95% while boosting backup speeds as much as 200%.
NCET Tech Bite | Ron Husey, Moving Your Business to the Cloud | Mar 2016Dave Archer
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In this presentation, CloudSmartz presented the Buffalo, NY Region of CIO and IT Executives recent trends on disaster recovery and business resilience.
This was great opportunity to learn and discuss new technologies on how you can maintain control of your data and have the flexibility you want over your environment:
• Defining critical applications for Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• Disaster Recovery approaches within the secure cloud environment
• Security, Control and Flexibility at your fingertips
• Reduce disaster recovery costs and gain continuous storage access
Business resilience is the ability an organization has to quickly adapt to disruptions while maintaining continuous business operations and safeguarding people, assets and overall brand equity.
Acroknight the Caribbean Data Backup solution presentation October 2013Steven Williams
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School of Computer & Information SciencesITS-532 Cloud ComTaunyaCoffman887
School of Computer & Information Sciences
ITS-532 Cloud Computing
Chapter 13 – Migrating to the Cloud
Learning Objectives
• Define requirements for migrating an application to the cloud.
• Describe the importance of backing up data before and after moving an application to the
cloud.
• Appreciate the benefit of using experienced consultants to assist with a cloud migration.
• Describe an application in terms of its resource use.
• Define and describe vendor lock-in and discuss ways to avoid it.
• Describe the importance of training employees before, during, and after a cloud migration.
• Describe the importance of establishing a realistic cloud-deployment schedule.
• Discuss key budget factors impacted by the cloud.
• Discuss potential IT governance issues related to the cloud.
• Define and describe cloud bursting.
Migration to the Cloud
• An application can be moved to the cloud quickly.
• There are a myriad of cloud-solution providers who will
eagerly assist by giving you instant access to cloud-
based servers, data storage, and support.
• Like all IT projects, the process of moving an application
to the cloud, or the process of creating and deploying a
new cloud application, should be well planned.
System Requirements
• All IT projects should begin with specific
requirements. The process of taking an
application to the cloud, known as cloud
migration, is no exception. The cloud-
migration process should start with defined
requirements.
Common Cloud System Requirements
• Data security and privacy requirements
• Site capacity plan—the resources that the application initially
needs to operate
• Scalability requirements—the measurable factors that should drive
scaling events
• System uptime requirements
• Business continuity and disaster requirements
• Budget requirements
• Operating system and programming language requirements
Common Cloud System Requirements
Continued
• Type of cloud: public, private, or hybrid
• Single- or multitenant solution requirements
• Data backup requirements
• Client device requirements, such as computer, tablet, or smartphone
support
• Training requirements
• Help desk and support requirements
• Governance and auditing requirements
• Open source software requirements
Common Cloud System Requirements Cont.
• Programming API requirements
• Dashboard and reporting requirements
• Client access requirements
• Data export requirements
Real World: CloudSwitch Cloud Migration
• Many companies have enterprise-based applications
that are widely used by their employees.
• These applications, therefore, are mission critical.
• CloudSwitch provides a downloadable application that
companies can install within their data center and that
securely maps the company’s on-site applications to a
cloud-based solution in a matter of minutes.
Protect Your Existing Data
• Before you begin your application migration to a cloud provider,
make sure that you back up your data so ...
With cyber-security breaches and hacks more common than ever before we've compiled the key IT-security rules that will help you to protect your business against the most likely threats. While this deck is predominately aimed at SMEs the rules apply broadly to businesses of any size.
Creating An Enterprise Storage Strategy for Healthcare DataCore Software
Healthcare CIOs face many challenges including maintaining continuous operations around the clock, managing data growth, and delivering the application performance required to provide high quality professional healthcare services.
In this presentation, learn how Mission Community Hospital’s CIO leveraged DataCore’s software-defined storage platform to create their enterprise storage strategy and achieve the following results:
• Over 2 years of 24x7x365 operations without any data outages
• 87% reduction in the amount of time to provision storage capacity
• Up to 5x performance increase for their SQL, PACS, and Oracle database system
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The enterprise network is the strong, rugged backbone of every modern business. but the complexities of convergence, the drive for extra capacity & capability and the pressure on cost control demand a new standard of network provision – from a new breed of provider.
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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Session Overview
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2. Top 10 Tips for Data Recovery
• What would happen to your business if you experienced a
catastrophic data loss?
• Would your business survive?
• The statistics are alarming, 43% of businesses never re-
open after a major disaster.
• A well planned data recovery strategy can deliver
improved resilience with predictable costs and no
unscheduled downtime.
• It will also allow you to sleep at night!
3. 1. Identify your data recovery needs
• Data Recovery is vital for the survival of your business.
• Your data defines and separates your business from any
other in the market.
• If failure should occur at any level of your infrastructure it
can be felt across the business.
• You must ask yourself, how would your business survive a
disaster?
• And what provisions do you have in place for your
business to continue after?
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the failure of your entire site.
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putting your organisation at risk.
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• The threat of fire and natural disaster can have the most
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critical your data is.
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you can then develop a tiered recovery strategy
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– Important data
– Legacy data
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recovered in the event of a disaster
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system before the impact becomes critical to business
operations.
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– the chance of failure
– how much you are willing to spend to minimise
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for any length of time could result in the loss of business.
• Should the system running your website fail, the chances
are customers will not return.
• It is vital that you can recover your systems as quickly as
possible, reducing downtime and limiting loss of business.
• Essentially, any length of downtime can be harmful to
your business, but extended downtime could spell out the
end
10. 8. Assess system recovery methods
• Assessing the critical levels of your data and systems,
allows you to set a data recovery policy that works best for
you depending on your Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
• Bare metal recovery to recover to either your system to
similar or dissimilar hardware.
• Online disk backup allows you to increase the frequency of
your backup for more dynamic and rapidly changing data.
• You have the flexibility of backing up more frequently on
critical systems and less frequently on non-critical systems.
11. 9. Consider your network for DR
• Putting a resilient data recovery policy in place insures
your data against failure, but what about your network?
• Your network infrastructure is vital to continuous running
of your organisation.
• A disaster on site will take out your network and data.
• Hosting your network with a service provider offers you a
fully managed solution for network recovery.
• Your network will be accessible even in site failure,
ensuring that your business continues as normal.
12. 10. Consider to offsite your IT estate
• Managed hosting is the ultimate business continuity
solution.
• Not only can you host your data, systems and network
safely offsite in the service providers 'cloud'; you can also
protect your telephony systems in the same way.
• Service providers such as InTechnology offer a portfolio of
hosted cloud services to protect your entire infrastructure.
• Hosting your IT infrastructure in the cloud covers every
aspect for business continuity and allows you access to
extra computing resources when you need them.
13. What options do I have?
• Primary environment in the cloud
• Primary communications services in the cloud
• Data recovery services
– Online Backup
– Online Replication
– Virtual DR environment
14. Primary environment in the cloud
• Infrastructure as a Service enables you to access one or
more virtual machines, and run applications
• Virtual servers run on physical servers located in a service
provider data centre.
• The virtualisation software abstracts processor, memory,
storage and networking resources into multiple virtual
machines, delivering greater utilisation and flexibility, and
unparalleled levels of performance and scalability.
• Due to data centre and physical infrastructure resilience
and the fact that the environment is already offsite, DR
requirements are minimal
15. Data recovery services
• File Recovery Services
– Unintentional deletion of data from a
server
– Recovery of a single file back to an
otherwise working system
• System Recovery Services
– Hardware or software failure of a server
– Rebuild of a specific server at current
site
• Site Recovery Services
– Complete failure of a customer office
– Require rebuild of application
infrastructure at alternative site
17. Customer process for file recovery
Computer Room
Network
Servers
Storage
Operating Systems
Applications
Application Data Copy of Application Data
Customer Site Service Provider Data Centre
Specified file is recovered
on-line from backup data
19. Customer process for system recovery
Computer Room
Network
Copy of Application Data
Customer Site Service Provider Data Centre
Servers
Storage
Operating Systems
Applications
Application Data
Step 1: Customer orders and
builds replacement server
Step 2: Customer
installs O/S and
Application Software
Step 3: Backup Data
is delivered by
service provider to
customer site, either
over wire or
physically by
portable storage
20. The problem is downtime
• To recover 1TB of server data takes a minimum of 28
hours
Copy 1TB to portable storage: 10 hours @ 100GB / hour
Ship storage to site: 3 hours
Restore to new server: 15 hours @ 70GB / hour
TOTAL 28 hours
• Larger data volumes take proportionally longer, and
recovery over the wire is not an option for data volumes of
this size
• This is in addition to the time to take delivery of a new
server install the O/S and application software
21. Online Backup & Virtual DR Servers
Customer Site Service Provider Data Centre
Operating Systems
Applications
Virtual
Hosting
Service
Application Data
Step 1: Customer
activates DR virtual
servers with pre-loaded
software images
Step 2: Backup data from
is recovered direct to
virtual servers
Users log into remote virtual servers
23. Site Recovery
• Site Recovery is a variation of the System Recovery
options with the below exceptions:
1. There will be multiple servers to simultaneously
recover, so restoration times need to be considered
2. Other systems, such as telephony, will also be affected
3. Staff will also need alternative premises to work at
24. Data & voice site recovery services
DR Office Facility
Service Provider Data Centre
Operating Systems
Applications
Virtual Hosting
Service
Application Data
Users remotely access voice
& data services
Hosted IP Telephony
Voice Services
Data Services
25. Service options
Option Description
Off-site Backup Standard MBS Product
Virtual DR Servers
Restore MBS data to a pre-configured
virtual server
Hosted VoIP with
DR
Calls to the failed site are re-routed to
staff using a Hosted PBX
26. SUMMARY/
• You need to consider your DR
requirements end to end
• Critical systems and critical data
• Consider moving primary IT
environment into the cloud
• By combining existing
backup, virtual hosting, voice, co-
location, and storage
services, service providers like
InTechnology can address full
scale DR requirements
27. STEFAN HAASE /
PRODUCT DIRECTOR / DATA CLOUD SERVICES /
SEAN MCDONOUGH
COO - PROACTIS
THANK YOU /
Editor's Notes
BMR essentially backs up the entire system, enabling you to recover the operating system, application software and data in a single pass, reducing your recovery time by hours.