When building a secure IT environment, a disaster recovery (DR) plan is essential. But is your plan as comprehensive as it should be? Join Darrell Hyde, CTO at HOSTING, to discuss the elements of a comprehensive DR plan. We'll explore DR through the use of integrated testing capabilities via cloud replication, and open the floor for your questions about DR and enterprise IT environments.

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THINK YOU’VE TESTED YOUR
DR PLAN? THINK AGAIN!

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3. • Why are we here?
• To understand the common types of change
happening in your IT environment
• To discuss the impact these changes have on
your recovery posture
• To learn how HOSTING’s Cloud Replication
product enables continuous testing!
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WELCOME!

4. • Who is this guy anyway?
• Darrell Hyde – CTO, HOSTING
• 18-year veteran of the managed hosting
industry
• Survivor of many disasters
• Learner of many lessons
• Passionate believer in continuous testing
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WELCOME!

5. MY FIRST DISASTER
• September 1999,
Hurricane Floyd
• Category 4 storm
• Winds up to 155 mph
• $4.5B in damages
• 57 deaths
• 2.6 million displaced
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6. • Working for a local ISP in Delaware
• Office and colo facility located next to a
river known to flood
• No backup power
• Customer servers located on the first floor
• Telco demarc in an old shed behind the
building
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MY FIRST DISASTER

7. • Guess what happened next…
• Building flooded
• Power lost
• Servers under water
• Telco demarc fried
• Techs scrambling in the dark to move
equipment upstairs
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MY FIRST DISASTER

8. • What did I learn from this experience?
• Location, location, location
• It’s not if, it’s when
• Only as strong as your weakest link
• If it happened once, count on it happening
again
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MY FIRST DISASTER

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MY FIRST DISASTER

10. SOME FACTS
Disaster Recovery Journal
80% Of U.S.
Companies
Lack a DR plan
50% Of SMBs
Worldwide
Have no Recovery Plan
Symantec 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey Global
72% Of SMBs
Worldwide
With a Plan
Have Never Tested It
Symantec 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey Global

11. • Your IT environment is constantly changing
• Software team releasing new code
• Systems team applying OS updates
• Network team deploying new firmware
• Security team deploying updated policy
• Storage team adding capacity
• Users moving from local to remote to mobile
• Users introducing new end devices
• …and so on…
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SOME MORE FACTS

12. • What isn’t constantly changing?
• Offsite backup tapes
• The DR binder gathering dust on the shelf
• The emergency contact list in the DR binder
• The workload that you based your DR plan
on
• The annual DR test / BBQ
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SOME MORE FACTS

13. • As a result…
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SOME MORE FACTS
Symantec
1 in 4Disaster
Recover Tests
FAIL

14. WHY AREN’T DR PLANS TESTED?
40% Fear
Disruption
To Customers
Symantec 2009 Disaster Recovery Survey 27% Fear
Disruption
To Sales and Revenue
Symantec 2009 Disaster Recovery Survey
48% Lack The
Resources
To Test Regularly
Symantec 2009 Disaster Recovery Survey

15. • DR testing should not…
• Negatively impact customers
• Negatively impact employees
• Negatively impact revenue
• Be an excuse to drink with your coworkers on
the weekend
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THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY

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HOSTING CLOUD REPLICATION

17. • Customizable recovery plans
• Non-disruptive testing
• Push-button test AND failover via the
HOSTING Customer Portal
• White glove onboarding always includes a
successful test
• RPO adherence monitored by HOSTING
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HOSTING CLOUD REPLICATION

18. • Flexible replication scenarios:
• Replicate between HOSTING Public Clouds
• Replicate between HOSTING Private Clouds
• Replicate from your on premises
infrastructure to HOSTING Cloud Sites:
• Denver, CO
• Louisville, KY
• Newark, DE
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HOSTING CLOUD REPLICATION

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HOSTING CLOUD REPLICATION

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HOSTING CLOUD REPLICATION

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HOSTING CLOUD REPLICATION

22. • Your IT environment is an ecosystem
that’s constantly changing
• Your recovery posture must reflect this
• Tapes and binders are not a DR plan
• Test as your environment changes
• Cloud Replication from HOSTING
enables continuous testing!
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WHAT DID WE LEARN?

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Q&A
Darrell Hyde | CTO
For more information about HOSTING Disaster Recovery Planning™,
please contact HOSTING at 888.894.4678.