This document discusses factors to consider when choosing a cloud for enterprise-level continuity. It outlines 5 critical success factors: 1) understand your needs, 2) select the right cloud storage strategy, 3) avoid unnecessary compute costs, 4) plan for failback, and 5) keep on-premises needs in mind. It then summarizes Unitrends' cloud disaster recovery solution Boomerang, which replicates VMs to cloud storage with no compute usage for replication and allows failover and failback with one click. Finally, it recommends next steps of remembering the 5 use cases and 5 critical success factors and exploring Unitrends' solutions on their website.
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I appreciate you joining today
Hope not to take too much of your time
And if we’re lucky, I’ll have helped you learned some interesting things for organization’s backup and continuity needs
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Technology is constantly changing – from physical to virtual to cloud and in a million other ways
And it creates growth that far outpaces the people that implement and manage it
The gray line that’s flat…that’s you
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Ransomware is just one example (CBT) of how this rapid change brings significant risk to an organization
It’s affecting more than half of enterprises
And more than 60% of businesses have been down more than a day from it
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This is where I think cloud adopters are really ahead of the game.
Leveraging cloud helps to alleviate these pain points
BUT ONLY IF DONE IN THE RIGHT WAY
The biggest monster of all
Not just about ransomware
Can put us out of business, or at least out of a job
What is not mentioned is private cloud!
When it comes to Backup and Continuity there are 5 key use cases we’ll talk about today
These are ways we see the most people using Azure today in our space
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Let’s start with these two
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Operations are pretty similar…
Just slight differences
Run through the examples
Be caution of bandwidth and recovery needs
Not always a huge fan of online backup at any type of scale, but it provides a great target for SaaS backup (cloud-to-cloud)
Run through the examples
Be caution of bandwidth and recovery needs
Not always a huge fan of online backup at any type of scale, but it provides a great target for SaaS backup (cloud-to-cloud)
These have an impact on the other success factors and decisions.
The storage strategy used can be important to cost.
The solution you use can force one or the other.
Usually a bad thing to use compute, but there are some good reasons.
Regardless of your use case, make sure you can get the data back
For backups, recovery should be flexible and granular to ensure fastest recovery back on-premises
For full machines and DR, you always want to be sure getting machines back is not an afterthought.
Build this into your core decision-making strategy
Additionally, this story might actually be related to inter-cloud use cases, specifically when talking about protecting Azure VMs
So it’s not about coming backup, but having a secondary cloud location so there’s redundancy
Regardless of your use case, make sure you can get the data back
For backups, recovery should be flexible and granular to ensure fastest recovery back on-premises
For full machines and DR, you always want to be sure getting machines back is not an afterthought.
Build this into your core decision-making strategy
Azure Example
Organize VMs store backups in low cost Blob storage
Declare disaster & spin-up as Azure VMs using VM storage
Resume operations in the cloud
Failback to enterprise when ready
Key message: Summary of what it does and what it means to be purpose built for cloud DR and migration
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This is how important it is to avoid compute costs at all times for basic replication.
Our competitors don’t do this
Key differentiation: Purpose built for low-cost, insanely simple DRaaS and migration.
Review points
Operational efficiencies
Intuitive GUI
Auto discover, group and display VMs
Agent-free; takes a snapshot of VMs without shutting down servers
Optimize frequency, timing of backups
Secure via military-grade encryption
Minimize downtime and impact
Industry’s fastest time download to replication (< 1 hr.)
Rapid recovery with fast rehydration of up to date backups
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We talked about how important meeting a budget was…
The pricing here is very aggressive to ensure that not just those with large IT budgets can help their organizations stay afloat when downtime strikes
Key message: Important to be honest
Key message: Purpose-built, enterprise cloud solutions can help in those cases
Key message: The details of how it works.
Value of 6 snapshots vs MS protection??
Rapid set-up—nothing to install
Automatic, hands-off backup
In your control—Self-service recovery
Business continuity—recovery in just seconds
Continuity—Lost email restored in just a few clicks
Business protection—Unlimited retention
Secure—encryption
Priced simply—per user per month
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How we’re helping folks solve these problems with Azure
Primary focus on DR
We’ll leave the last two as teasers for a future discussion