B2B disaster recovery webinar

1. Stay Above The Water Line By
Protecting Your IT Systems
Expert insight into US flooding trends
& disaster recovery techniques
March 2009

2. Today’s Speakers
•Alan Lulloff, PE, CFM
Science Services Program Manager
• Justin Giardina, CTO, iland Internet Solutions
formerly IT Manager at Delta Companies
•Your Moderator – Bob Thaler, Sr. Director of Marketing,
Acronis, Inc.

3. Association of State
Floodplain Managers
(ASFPM)
Key trends and patterns in
Flooding in U.S.
Alan Lulloff
PE, CFM
Senior Managers

4. What we will be covering today
 Trends and Patterns in Flood Damages
 Business Challenges
 How you can assess your risk
 What you can do to prepare

5. ASFPM Chapters
& State FPM Associations
15,000 Members
 27 Chapters
Several State Associations & Pending Chapters
WI
MN
IL
MI NY
IN
OH
VA
NC
SC
FL
MS
AR
LA
TX
OK
NM
AZ
CO
MO
FMA
NORFMA MT
UT NE
KS
GA
KY
NJ
MD
RI
AL

6. ASFPM Mission
Mitigate the losses (including
businesses), costs, and human
suffering caused by flooding
and
Protect the natural and beneficial
functions of floodplains

7. And Then…. Aug. 29, 2005

8. $2.2
$2.9
$2.4
$3.4
$2.2
$4.9
$3.3
$5.6
$25
$2.0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Billions (adjusted to 1999 dollars)

9. Hurricane Katrina
 Deadliest U.S. hurricane since 1928
 More than 1,300 dead
 Most expensive hurricane on record
 $34.4 billion insured losses
 Total cost: $150 billion
Other major hurricanes (Katrina and Rita)
 240,000 claims - 83% pre-regulation, 17% post
 $23 billion in claims
 1/3 of claims outside the 1% floodplain

10. Casino Magic’s Experience

12. Businesses Hard Hit

13. Storm surge impacts

16. Waterloo, Iowa

17. What’s your risk?
• Areas most vulnerable
• Mapped FEMA floodplains (1/3 of claims outside fp)
• Areas previously flooded
• Areas Behind Levees/Below Dams
• Factors contributing to increased flood damages
• Increased storm frequency/Intensity
• Accelerated Sea Level Rise
• Floodplains growing – urbanizing areas
• Increased intensity of development
• Resources
• GoogleEarth / FEMA Flood maps

18. Which areas most vulnerable?
Spring flood outlook: Above normal flood potential for
the following areas:
 Mississippi River basin
 Ohio River basin
 Pennsylvania
 New Jersey
 All of New England
 Portions of the West
 Including Colorado and
Idaho

19. FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map

20. FEMA Flood Maps /GoogleEarth
www.msc.fema.gov

21. What can a business do to
minimize flood impact?
Understand flood risk using FEMA Flood Maps
Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs)
FEMA – going digital
NFDL in GoogleEarth / FIRMette
(www.msc.fema.gov)
Buy Flood Insurance

22. Develop your business recovery plan
• Priorities & actions
• Roles & responsibilities
• Resources

23. Business Challenges
 Impact & challenges of flood preparation
 Preparation to quickly get your business back up & running
 Protect vital records and data
 Contingency plans to move data to new location to resume
operations
 Business assessment to identify vulnerabilities
 Preparing before, during and after a natural disaster
 Forward mail
 Flashlight, candles, transistor radio

24. Summary
Key points

25. Delta Petroleum Company
Justin Giardina
CTO with Iland Internet
Solutions
Formerly IT Manager
Delta Petroleum Company
One IT organization’s
adventure with
escaping a hurricane

26.  Who is Delta Petroleum?
 Critical Business Challenges & Goals
 Addressing the Challenges
 Effective disaster preparation
 Putting the Plan to the Test
 Iland & Today’s Options
Overview

27. Who is Delta Petroleum Company?
 Founded in 1946
 Independent energy company
 Based in Denver, Colorado
 Operations across the US & Canada
 Focus on exploration and production
of natural gas and crude oil

28. The Calm Before The Storm
Before Hurricane Katrina
 HQ in New Orleans
 7 locations supporting multiple subsidiaries
 IT Infrastructure
 HP hw - 30 rack mount servers, storage, tape backup
 Microsoft AD, SQL, Exchange, and in house ASP
applications running on IIS
 VMware environment at Disaster Recovery site

29. Business Challenges & Goals
 Challenges
 Dispersed Locations across US & Canada
 All communication systems based within New
Orleans data center
 Limited IT resources
 Goals
 Require ability to easily restore backup data
 Increase operational efficiency
 Critical applications need to be up and running
 Cost effective solution with quick recovery times

30. Addressing the Business Challenges
 Research all available options
 Mixed Results
 Expensive options
 Limited capabilities

31. Effective disaster recovery
• Acronis True Image Echo
• Fast backup to multiple types of disks
• Easily meshed with our VMware environment
• Lab experience
• High ease of use
 Quick and easy installation
 Tested and enhanced backup plans
 Removable RAID5 arrays
 Installed Houston Disaster Recovery site

32. Putting The Plan To The Test
 Hurricane Katrina
 Evacuation
 Activating the DR Plan
 Success with out a hitch!

33. Are you ready?
 What is the impact on your business when a disaster
happens?
 Can your business survive without your IT
infrastructure?
 If so, for how long?
 Do you have a written DR plan?

34. Summary
Key points

35. For more information
 Visit www.acronis.com
 See the on-demand version of this webinar
 Get a FREE 15 day trial of Acronis True Image Echo
 http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/download/ATIESWin/
 Email sales@acronis.com
 Contact iland Internet Solutions
 www.iland.com
 Email sales@iland.com
 Association of State Floodplain Managers
 www.floods.org

36. Thank you for attending today
Stay Above The Water Line By
Protecting Your IT Systems