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?
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Don’t Jeopardize Your Business: 5 Key Business Continuity Use Cases for Cloud
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
5 Ways To Reach Continuity
Terry Robinson
Unitrends Product Marketing
August 10, 2016
Key Business Continuity Use
Cases for Cloud
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Presentation Name | Date 2016 Industry Feedback:
Backup And Recovery Needs To Improve
“Organizations are also voicing
the opinion that backup needs to
improve a lot, not just a little. The
ongoing frustration with backup
implies that the data protection
approaches of the past may no
longer suffice in meeting current
— much less future — recovery
requirements.”
2016 Datacenter Backup Software MQ
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Consider Cloud for Off-site Coverage
Public Cloud Adoption is Growing FAST
IDC forecasts that worldwide public IT cloud services revenue will reach
$141.2B USD by 2019, a 19.4% CAGR (compounded annual growth
rate): almost six times the rate of overall IT spending growth!
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Off-site Backup Copies In The Cloud
Data center
Create and store backup copies
within a cloud
Management and Control
Create enterprise
backups using on-
premises appliances
2
3
1
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
• Backup copies to Unitrends Forever
Cloud
• Use for recovery as needed
Example Solution: Off-site Backup Copies
Data center
or
Unitrends
Recovery Series
Physical
Appliance
Unitrends
Enterprise Backup
(UEB) Virtual
Appliance
• On premises backup
• Backup copies in the cloud
• Recovery from cloud
• Instant recovery from on site
2
1
3
Unitrends common
management
dashboard
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Workloads Are Shifting To The Cloud
Top 3 2016 Initiatives (Enterprise/SMB)
• Moving more workloads to cloud (57%/35%)
• Optimizing existing cloud use (47%/43%)
• Expanding the public clouds used (46%/38%)
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Gartner: 15% of businesses leveraged cloud applications in
2015; Usage is expected to grow to 60% in the next 7 years
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Risks Exist – Ensure They Are Mitigated
Top 4 Sources of Data Loss in a Public Cloud
• Accidental deletion
• During migration to new application
• Accidental overwriting
• Data breech or hackers
Source: Winter 2015 Data Protection Survey, SPANNING by EMC
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Protecting Cloud Workloads
Cloud-based Applications
Backup Appliance
Management and Control
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Sample Solution To Protect Cloud Workloads
Cloud-based Applications
• Contain Unitrends UEB agent
• Run within an Azure VM
UEB deployed as an Azure VM
• Backs-up data from VMs
• Provides recovery
Unitrends Common
Management Dashboard
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Disaster Risk Perceptions
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Technology
Disasters/incidents
IT Security
Disasters/incidents
Man-made
Disasters/incidents
Natural
Disasters/incidents
Other
Disasters/incidents
% Who Perceive Their Organizations To Be At Risk
Spiceworks, The 2016 STATE OF IT
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
31%
Of respondents
experienced data
loss within the last 2
years
A Tested DR Plan Is Required
Loss and downtime cost
enterprises more than
$1.7 trillion in the last
twelve months.
Vanson Bourne survey, 3300 IT decision makers 2014
Multiple firms report
downtime costs $90,000 to
$300,000 (USD) per hour
Unitrends Survey, February 2016
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Why Use Cloud To Provide Disaster Recovery
• Off-site
• Eliminate own additional site
• Support remote offices
• Recovery on-demand
• Rapid spin-up
• Can push to any global location
• Look for testing and reporting
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Disaster Recovery In The Cloud
Data center
Cloud used for backups
• Plan
• Install backup appliance
on premise
2
3
1
Management and Control
• Create on premise backups
• Perform backup copies to cloud
• Spin-up VMs of critical applications; resume
operations.
• Restore to enterprise upon repairing damages.
5
4
Disaster!
Outage in Data Center.
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Solution 1: Disaster Recovery In The Cloud
Data center
Unitrends Cloud and DRaaS
• Backup to Unitrends Forever Cloud
2
31
• Spin-up VMs of critical applications; resume
operations.
• Restore to enterprise upon repairing damages.
5
4
or
Unitrends
Recovery Series
Physical
Appliance
Unitrends
Enterprise Backup
Virtual Appliance
Unitrends Common
Management Dashboard
Disaster!
Outage in Data Center
Plan
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Solution 2 - Disaster Recovery In The Cloud
Data center
• Store backups in low-cost AWS S3
• On command, auto-convert to native AMI
• Spin up in AWS EC2, resume operations
• One-click failback to enterprise
Organize VMs into groups
Manage DR process
Install Unitrends Boomerang
virtual appliance
2
3
1
AWS S3 AWS EC2
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Increase In Cloud Use
Means More Migration
Can’t Impact Business
Takes time Is labor intensive
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Cloud Migration
Data center
Move VMs into cloud
Shut down Enterprise VMs
Convert, monitor, test
Select VMs to migrate
2
3
1
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Solution: Rapid Cloud Migration
Data center
Boomerang automatically replicates VMs, converts to
native AMIs in AWS S3.
Select VMs to migrate, click, click, click
• Install Unitrends Boomerang
virtual appliance within
VMware environment
2
3
1
AWS S3
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• Cyclical businesses
• Infrequently used
• Temporary environment
• Project outside of your firewall
Cloud Bursting Use Cases
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Cloud Bursting
Data center
• Move VMs into cloud
• Use while required during peak
• Move back to Enterprise after peak usages
Convert, monitor, test
Select VMs to
extend
2
31
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
Solution: Cloud Bursting
Data center • On command, auto-convert VM to native AMI,
spin up in AWS EC2
• Conduct business
• One-click return to VMware environment
• Choose VMs needed for task
• Replicate in AWS S3 until needed
Install Unitrends Boomerang
virtual appliance
2
3
1
AWS S3 AWS EC2
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Presentation Name | Date 2016
1. Offsite Backup Copies
2. Cloud Workload Protection
3. Disaster Recovery
4. Cloud Migration
5. Cloud Bursting
5 Continuity Use Cases
Addressed By Cloud
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Unitrends:
Redefining Recovery to Continuity for the Business
How can we help you protect what matters most to you?
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Welcome
Conversation from Backup to Recovery
Extend to continuity
Cloud well suited to address
Specific Use cases
Regardless of survey, on IT objectives, results include something about improving data backup & recovery
Here are results of latest ESG survey on 2016 activities
20% - one of most important initiatives
Also related to others that rate even higher –
cybersecurity, ransomware 37% – address with backup & DR
data growth – 22% key initiative, found from own survey 49% concerned about managing it and reason for looking at using cloud for backup
Gartner – insight during datacenter backup SW MQ
Frustration
Data protection not enough, focus is recovery
We suggest focus should be on recovery that does not impact the business
Is transparent to users
Focus is business continuity
Some clear trends on value of cloud, what cloud provides, IT plan for clouds, etc has gotten tracked in surveys and studies over the last few years.
Cloud Industry Forum – 2009 Cloud and the digital imperative 2016
The flexibility (77%)
Scalability (76%)
24/7 service (74%)
64% Cloud has saved their organization time – other expertise, not adding to IT tasks
Historically – security and locating data off prem was a concern. Also point out – more comfortable, vast majority (98%) of all respondents have never experienced a breach of security when using a Cloud service
Point that I want to highlight is that enterprise use of cloud is on the uptick
We saw that in our own survey of ~900
– about half using for backup and recovery
- 40% increasing use in next 12 months
IDC – public cloud services revenue big, getting bigger
remember >19% CAGR
6X overall IT spending
Best practice for backup and recovery & to set stage for continuity is the Rule of 3
3 copies of data , 2 types of media , 1 copy off-site
Why cloud for off-site backup copies?
Off-site
another type of media
a copy of data
Financial
OpEX - pay only for what is used
Less costly than secondary site
More efficient storage allows for data to be cost effectively retained long term
Operational
Eliminates need for tape or rotational media
Flexible scalability up and down
Without IT & administrative overhead
Cloud provider addresses infrastructure management
Many organizations are looking to the cloud to address their long-term retention and regulatory compliance requirements.
Cloud provides an effective alternative to sending tapes or other rotational media off-site for long-term retention and can be set up at a fraction of the cost of building your own off-site secondary data center.
Steps involved with using cloud to provide off-site backup copies
Use a Management and Control (1 or 2 systems) to
Create backup on premises
Create backup copies in the cloud
Recovery from cloud as required
Complemented with IR on site
Creating off-site backup copies of your on-premises backups ensures the utmost protection for your assets. Unitrends enables you to easily set this up based on Unitrends Connected Continuity Platform.
Use Unitrends common dashboard across appliances on-prem and in cloud. Use the same intuitive Unitrends management dashboard to replicate backup copies from the Unitrends physical or virtual appliance in your data center to the cloud.
Create On premises backup, all-in-one – UEB (4 editions) , R-S Available in 14 models from 1 TB to
182 TB of raw storage.
Create copies into the U Forever cloud (based on your standard retention policy for backup copies and long term retention) considering daily, weekly, monthly backups and an infinite number of annual backups.
Recover from cloud as required.
Quickly recover the asset that you need from the cloud back to your users, be it a file, an application or entire volume.
Appliances Utilize Instant recovery tech on site
To guarantee business continuity, best practices combine validation testing with instant recovery of applications
VMWare, Hyper-V and Windows physical
One solution….we have other ways, Cloudhook tech to integrate with hyperscale clouds from AWS, Azure, Google, Rackspace
Enabling UEB as a target running in Azure and later in AWS (amazon Web services)
Triangulate some data support my observation that….. And will require protection
Rightscale, CMS, nice report Jan. almost 1100 tech professionals
Revealed enterprises during 2016 – 57%....
SMBs somewhat lagging, but still pretty strong
Looked at #VMs in particular in public clouds – not # of enterprises, but degree of use…..45% over 100 VMs, 17% over 1000 – much higher than last year
Gartner stat on cloud based apps – respectable growing substantially over next 7 years.
As an IT professional, you are responsible for protecting your organization's data in the cloud just as you are for on-premises content. There are countless causes of data loss, even from cloud based applications. Accidents happen, data is lost.
Common causes of loss in a public cloud.
Accidental deletion (43%)
During migration to new application (33%)
Accidental overwriting (27%)
Data breech or hackers (20%)
Corporate and even regulatory driven retention and recovery policies apply to all of your data - independent of where it resides. Can not assume that Cloud IaaS or SaaS vendor cares for that for you.
How does this work?
Pretty simple solution.
Deploy your applications in the cloud utilizing the cloud’s computing, networking and storage services.
data stored in cloud, protected to back up appliance in the cloud.
From there can go on to backup to another site.
Lets look at U solution.
Start with dashboard, intuitive access to managing our appliances and applications that make up our Connected Continuity Platform.
You can immediately begin to backup your data from the Azure based applications onto the Unitrends appliance deployed as a VM. All backup, recovery and management capabilities are integrated into the single instance of Unitrends Enterprise Backup efficiently running on this one VM.
Optimize your IT staff by easily setting-up automated backups.
From there, the same management dashboard can be used to recover whatever level of granularity has been lost – file, data volume.
You can quickly retrieve loss data no matter how granular or large of a data set.
To illustrate why DR is an important use case to consider, consider that perception could be reality.
Here are some reasons why IT has the perception that their orgs are at risk.
Go through HIGH - Moderate
To prepare to handle any of these, an org needs to have a fully defined, and tested DR plan.
Spiceworks, many of you are members of the community,
Surveyed 800+
Sept The 2016 STATE OF IT
To not do that would have drastic consequences.
Happens – we found 31%
An average estimate downtime cost businesses between $90,000 and $300,000 (US dollars) for every hour of IT
system downtime. Loss to large financial institutions, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy companies can be
significantly higher.
Lets look at how cloud can help.
Why cloud and just as importantly, what do you need to discover about the cloud service that you are evaluating?
Starts with Off-site protection
Eliminate additional onsite backup hardware and software
With infrastructure and access from anywhere – vs a particular corp datacenter, Better support remote offices
Should an outage occur, using a DR service or DRaaS, recovery is available on demand. Ask these questions, find out.
Rapid spin-up of critical systems as VM in a cloud - reduced system downtime
ESG 2/2016 The Evolving Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Landscape
>50% Ent. require less than 1 hr.; 67% applications are critical –
24% of VMs recover in 1 hr or less
Look for testing and reporting
Right vendor –
Cloud enables enterprises to store replicated virtual machines to multiple regions for even greater protection and redundancy
Testing & reporting – eg look at Delta
Interesting use case – look at how addressed by cloud.
Plan - id critical systems and recovery objectives
Management tools to
Create on prem backups
Create backup copies in cloud (with continuous data replication to maintain currency)
ID critical systems
Disaster occurs – declare an event
Spin-up
Operations
Copy back to DC after resolution
Using Unitrends WhiteGlove DRaaS service
Plan – critical systems, recovery objectives, testing
Backup: Backup your business with UEB or RS appliances at your primary site.
• Copy your backups to the Unitrends Cloud with continuous data replication.
• Select the virtual machines (VMs) you want to mirror in the Unitrends Cloud and enroll in DRaaS.
• Ensure your DR plan works as expected. Let Unitrends perform a full validation (optional add-on).
• In the event of an outage at your primary site, declare the disaster with the Unitrends Cloud Ops team—24, 365.
• BC/DR: Spin-up critical systems 1 hr SLA
• After the disaster, backups of your data and VMs are copied to a Recovery Series appliance or NAS device and shipped to your primary site to rapidly restore.
Alternative using our Boomerang product, simple to use specific for VMware environments, operating in Amazon cloud, future Azure
Install virtual appliance on premises
Organize VMs store backups in low cost AWS S3 storage
Declare disaster & spin-up VMs in AWS EC2
Resume operations in the cloud
Failback to enterprise when ready
Customer story - Large government agency – 70 VMs
Objective: - Create, test offsite DR for VMware infrastructure
Need to work with existing local back-up (Symantec and CommVault)
Minimal capital, operational expenditure
Friday PM: Installed Boomerang in minutes
Started automated process
Kicked off replication / remodeling tasks
Left unattended for weekend
Monday AM: 70 native AMIs running in EC2, all VMs replicated and remodeled as native AWS AMIs, running in EC2
Results:
Monthly cost for this DR solution (including 12TB data in S3): $1,426.
Monthly cost for DR solution (including 12TB data in S3): $3,200.
Its clear – the more who use Cloud, the more that they use it, good, solid migration processes and technology become more important
Backup can be better – a lot, Cloud Industry Forum, January 2016 93% felt that their method could have been improved
It takes time – Recent survey found it took 19 months, on average
Key point – why we are viewing the objective of this area as continuity……Businesses can’t be impacted while migrating
Channel Insider, April 2016 10 Key Facts About Cloud Migration Challenges
44% can afford 1 hr. or less of business downtime
49% can spare 1 hr. to 1 day
Trick is to do quickly, transparently to the business
Id which VMs to migrate
Using a mgmt. tool, install backup appliance on premise
With mgmt. console, specify which to migrate to the cloud
Verify operations
Shut down VMs at the enterprise
Operate in the cloud
Id which VMs to migrate
Install Boomerang virtual appliance on premise
Migrate enterprise VMs to low cost AWS S3 storage in the Amazon cloud
As applications are run, Boomerang pull the application into AWS EC2.
It stores it in S3 storage in AWS on ongoing basis when the application is not being used
Verify, then shut down VMs at the enterprise
Operate in the cloud
Manage on-premises peak load – cyclical businesses
CIF
flexibility (77%)
scalability (76%)
Some examples of why & when
Retail
Streaming apps
Infrequently used applications
Construct a temporary development environment
Enable 3rd-party project work outside of your firewall
Leverage cloud flexibility and scale to address temporary increased capacity requirements without IT burden.
Looks similar to migration – in that you install a backup appliance on premise and then copy to cloud.
Has additional elements to step #3
Use VMs in cloud during peak
Move data back (restore) to Enterprise afterwards; determine whether to delete from cloud or continue to backup
Similar to migration
Start with Boomerang Virtual appliance on site, backup selected apps to low cost AWS S3
When additional capacity is required, use the Boom console to easily convert the VM to AMI & spins up in AWS EC2
When no longer required, move back to enterprise environment with 1 click
Leverage cloud flexibility and scale and Boomerang’s ease of use
What we discussed today.
Urge you to consider your business, which of these address operational reqirements of your company. Can cloud make your life easier?
If you just remember 2 things from this quick presentation; it’s that the Unitrends Connected Continuity Platform delivers recovery assurance so you never have to worry about recovery or continuity again and because we deliver a complete all-in-one platform, you’ll never have to spend time on managing multiple point solutions again