Is your organization ready for any disaster 2018 may throw at it? Organizations not only face new threats they also encounter decreased tolerance for downtime from users. The good news is there are plenty of new solutions that claim to improve an organization’s ability to recover from a disaster. But which one makes the most sense for your organization? And what about your processes? Recovery technology needs to partner with solid DR processes in order for an organization to see its way through the challenges ahead.

1. Webinar
2018 Disaster Recovery Checklist:
5 Key Areas to Improve
Learn the 5 Key Areas where you can improve:
1. DR Plan Documentation and Expectation Setting
2. Better Data Management to control growth and improve
backups
3. Faster On-Premises Recovery with instant recovery technology
4. Leveraging the Cloud as a backup repository and a recovery
site
5. Improving Confidence with better reporting and testing
For audio playback and Q&A go to: http://bit.ly/2018DRCheck

2. Our Speakers
George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big
data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is widely recognized for his
articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs,
software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has over 25 years of experience
designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.
Mark Jordan is CTO at Unitrends. He leads the presales engineering team, supports strategic sales
opportunities with account teams, promotes partner engagement, follows industry trends and direction to
shape product priorities, and evangelizes Unitrends solutions and roadmaps. Mark joined Unitrends in 2002
and has spent over 25 years in the information technology industry.

3. The State of
Disaster
Recovery
Planning
● Most DR Plans are not kept up to date
● The “DR Plan” at many organizations is
very ad-hoc
● Over 75% of DR Plans don’t meet
expectations when executed
● Over 35% of DR Plans don’t work at all
● Over 50% of DR Plans are not tested
yearly

4. Most DR Plans are… well… A Disaster

5. 2018 is The Year to Get DR Right!

6. 5 Key Areas to
Improve
● Documentation and
Expectation Setting
● Data Management
● Recovery
● Cloud Utilization
● Confidence

7. DR Plan
Documentation
and
Expectation
Setting
Eat the Elephant one bite at a time
● Create mini-plans, one for each
application or data set in priority order
● Set objectives for each mini-plan
○ RPO / RTO / VRO / GRO / RPE
● Set a schedule to test each mini-plan
● Eventually roll the mini-plans into a DR
strategy

8. ● Fact: Users want all data retained forever
and recovered instantly
● Solution:
○ Create the mini-plans with IT first
○ Then share each mini-plan with only the
impacted stakeholders
○ Our data:
Expectation Setting
○ 60% of mini-plans are accepted at face value
○ 25% of mini-plans require minor upgrades
○ 15% of mini-plans aren’t approved - but at
least everyone knows

9. Improve Data
Management
● You know the story - 80% of your
data hasn’t been accessed in years
○ But you are backing it up every week
● Develop a strategy to stop/control
○ Incremental forever - slows backup
storage growth
○ Archive - slows primary storage
growth

10. ● For all the talk of disaster planning, you are far more likely to be impacted by an
internal disaster (server failure, application corruption or storage system failure)
● Replication or Cluster used to be the solution
○ Expensive
○ Complicated
● Instant/Live Recovery can meet similar RPO/RTO
○ Not much more cost than a standard backup
○ May require enhanced backup target (performance/availability)
Improve On-Premises Recovery

11. Leveraging the
Cloud as a
Backup
Repository and
Recovery Site
● Step 1: Cloud as a DR Copy or Archive of Backup Data
● Step 2: Cloud as a DR Site
○ Leverage Instant Recovery to instantiate instances
in the cloud

12. Improve
Confidence
● Confidence comes from the rest of the
organization seeing that IT can recover
but also recover as part of a plan
● Requires more frequent testing
○ Value of mini-plans (smaller tests)
○ Powered by rapid recovery features
● Requires advanced reporting
○ Verification of quality backups in between tests

13. Summary
● Step 1 is Improving the Strategy
○ Documentation and buy-in on that
documentation
● Step 2 is Improving the
Organization’s Tactics
○ Data Management
○ Rapid Recovery
○ Intelligent Use of the Cloud
○ Testing and Reporting

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19. Thank you!
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20. 2018 Disaster Recovery Checklist:
5 Key Areas to Improve
For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at:
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