Watch to the on demand webinar with Storage Switzerland and Accelerite: “How To Prepare for the Disasters that Will Actually Happen”. In this webinar we discuss how these types of man-made disasters differ from natural disasters, why they’re more costly than natural disasters and what steps IT professionals must take, right now, to make sure their businesses can recover from them.

1. Webinar On Demand
Preparing for Disasters
that Will Actually Happen
In this webinar we cover:
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1. The Types of Man-Made Disasters
2. Why Man-Made Disasters are Worse for IT
3. The Steps IT Should Take Right Now to
Protect the Organization from Man-Made
Disasters

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 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.
Nathan Amthor is a Microsoft- and CompTIA-certified Technology Specialist with a Masters in
Information Systems Management degree from the University of Phoenix. He has been working with
Accelerite in Support, Implementation, and Sales Engineering roles since 2013.

3. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?

5. Poll
How do YOU prepare for a disaster?
A) Backups Only
B) Backup + Replication
C) Backup + Replication +
Warm Servers (VMs)
D) Backup + Replication +
Warm DR Site
E) Keep Résumé Updated

6. Poll
How do YOU prepare for a disaster?

7. Major vs. Minor Disasters
● In most cases there is
some warning
● Wide-spread outage
impacting many
● Public knowledge
● Many cases NO warning
● Impacts one server or one
application
● Damage to reputation

8. Causes of Minor Disasters
Unexpected
Peak
Demand

9. The Challenges of Minor Disasters
● Users are impacted by the downtime
but not by the situation that caused
the disaster
● Users expectation is a rapid RTO or
now downtime at all
● A Minor disaster requires even
better planning time

10. Creating a
Minor Disaster Recovery Plan
Unexpected
Peak
Demand

11. Creating a Minor Disaster Plan
● Plan
● Implement
● Test

12. Planning for Minor Disaster
● Identify Mission/Critical Apps
● Understand their Recovery Time
and Recovery Point Objectives
● Anything less with an RTO/RPO of
less than 1 hour needs to leverage
some form of replication
● Less than 30 minutes - add some
sort of “warm” server or VM

13. Implementing a Minor DRP strategy
● Key Components of a Minor DRP
● Replication locally and remotely
● Backups won’t cut it
On-Site Disk Backup
• How often are copies made?
(RPO). Not often enough

14. Implementing a Minor DRP strategy
● Key Components of a Minor DRP
● Replication locally and remotely
● Backups won’t cut it
On-Site Disk Backup
• How often are copies made?
(RPO). Not often enough
• How long will it take to transfer
data back? (deduplication and
compression won’t help)

15. Implementing a Minor DRP strategy
● Key Components of a Minor DRP
● Replication locally and remotely
● Warm VMs / data center
● Hypervisor Aware Replication

20. Accelerite
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What we cover

21. Accelerite
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“Accelerite’s Rovius looks like a solution to this mobility problem, one that may
help companies realize the freedom and flexibility that sold them on
virtualization and the cloud to begin with.”
“You are approaching this in the right way, we are not seeing a lot of companies focusing on
workload and orchestration in this way. This is especially important for DRaaS, which we see only
growing in the future.” Forrester
“Accelerite's favor is the fact that it has a large parent company with considerable software development
expertise and a large installed base. In addition, unlike its startup rivals, Accelerite already has experience in
disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) via its rCloud service, which is the result of Persistent's acquisition of
Doyenz. But Accelerite's success may depend in part on how rapidly it can add support for other hypervisors
and clouds.”

22. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
gcrump@storage-switzerland.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
Accelerite
https://accelerite.com
https://accelerite.com/blog
Accelerite Email
Nathan.amthor@accelerite.com
sales@accelerite.com
Accelerite on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Accelerite
Accelerite on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/accelerite

23. Preparing for Disasters
that Will Actually Happen
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