Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions have vaulted to the top of the considerations list for organizations looking to improve their ability to recover from major disasters like hurricanes and floods. But DRaaS solutions are not just for recovery anymore. These solutions can help organizations protect from ransomware, modernize infrastructure, and recover from minor disasters as well. Of course the solution must also provide peace of mind that when disaster strikes, the plan will not only work -- it will also be easy to initiate.

1. DRaaS
It’s Not Just For Disasters Anymore
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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.
Carla Fedrigo is Director of Marketing at Infrascale with more than 12 years of marketing and data
protection experience. Carla is a popular presenter and has in-depth experience with DRaaS,
business continuity, and ransomware mitigation serving as Infrascale principal spokesperson at
industry events around the globe.

3. State of Data Center Threats
● Major Disasters (top of mind again with
recent Hurricanes)
● Minor Disaster
○ Server failure (one server down can
impact dozens of applications)
○ Storage failure (one storage system
down can impact hundreds of
applications)
● Ransomware Attack
○ Infects user data and also databases

4. In Terms of Planning Major
Disasters are the Primary
Focus
● Most organizations focus on getting a copy
of data to another location
● Fewer pay attention to how long recovery in
the DR site will take
● Fewer still test the DR process on a regular
basis
● Even fewer understand what return to
normalcy will look like

5. DRaaS Simplifies DR
● Data is regularly copied to another
location that has COMPUTE resources
● Recovery at the DR site is typically
measured in minutes
● Testing is as easy as pressing a button
● Return to primary is simply a matter of
reversing the backup process and failing
back

6. Minor Disasters
● Minor disasters include
○ server failure
○ application bug or corruption
○ storage system failure
● It is only minor because of the scope
of impact not severity of the situation
● Most people will be patient with an
organization during a major disaster
○ most people expect minor disasters to be
recovered in minutes not hours

7. DRaaS Makes Minor
Disasters, Minor
● DRaaS makes frequent
backups (15-30 mins)
○ Low RPO/RTO
● DRaaS can start the
applications within minutes
● Some DRaaS does not require
a failover to the cloud

8. Ransomware ● Ransomware corrupts or encrypts
files on a network
● Infects organization by users clicking
on suspicious emails or downloading
files
● Encryption happens during the
middle of the day
○ hours after backup
● For most organizations paying the
ransom is faster than restoring a few
hundred thousand files

9. DRaaS Makes
Ransomware Recovery
Easy
● DRaaS makes frequent backups (15-30 mins)
● Data can be easily copied back or...
○ in the case of complete file server
corruption DRaaS appliance hosts the
file server

10. But Wait, There’s More
● Laptop protection, data
migration, data center
modernization, service
windows
● Key DRaaS Features
○ Frequent Backups
○ Instant Recovery on appliance or
in the cloud
○ Orderly restore

11. Detailing the Other Use
Cases
● Data Center Modernization
● Maintenance / Service Windows
● Test-Dev / DevOps
● Compliance
● Laptop backup / loss protection

12. GARTNER MQ FOR DRAAS
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VISIONARY
Disaster Recovery
as a Service
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2016
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13. Ransomware
Infection
Power down
machine
Determine
date/time
of infection
Rebuild server
(OS and software
installation)
Reconfigure
DB services
Restore clean
DB files
from backup
Inject old DB (from
restored backup)
to rebuilt DB
Establish
connectivity
(DB & input svcs)
TOTAL DOWNTIME (BEST CASE): 4-5 hours
TOTAL DOWNTIME: 1-2 minutes
Is DB part of a cluster? Repeat each of these steps for each machine connected to cluster.
BACKUPDRaaS
Ransomware
Infection
Power down
machine
Determine date/time
of infection
Log into DRaaS
dashboard
Boot VM (from last
clean backup)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5
BACKUP vs DRAAS

14. INFRASCALE ON DEMAND FAILOVER
END
USERS
System Outage
or
Ransomware
Failover appliance
Cloud
Capture
Replicate
Virtualize
Run

15. INFRASCALE ON DEMAND FAILOVER
END
USERS
System Outage
or
Ransomware
Failover appliance
Cloud
Capture
Replicate
Virtualize
RunRun

16. ORCHESTRATION
MANAGEMENT CONSOLE 6.10.0.267 – CLOUD SECONDARY
REPLICATION MODE
Overview Active Orchestration
Sav
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Ru
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Creat
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Group
Wait
Applications
1,075 GB used of 11,722 GB
Devices
LA
N
Wait: 10 seconds
Wait: 5 seconds
Non-Critical
Copy_HP_PC Copy_HP_PC Copy_HP_PC
Infrastructure
RM_AD_.dit DHCP_.mdb
Application Servers
SQL_12 EDB_12 Win_8

17. COMPREHENSIVE DATA & SYSTEM RECOVERY
INFRASCALE
CLOUD BACKUP
INFRASCALE
DISASTER RECOVERY
• Backup your data directly to the cloud
• Recover your data in seconds
• Optimized for endpoints and branch
office servers
• Ransomware detection & alerting
• Backup your entire network of systems
to an on-premise appliance and to the
cloud
• Run a replica of your systems in seconds
• Restore in your own time
• Optimized for mission-critical physical
and virtual servers

18. MOBILE DEVICES DESKTOPS & LAPTOPS
VIRTUAL SERVERSPHYSICAL SERVERS
PROTECT ALL DEVICES

19. Supports more
than 100+
versions of
operating
system
PROTECT MIXED ENVIRONMENTS

20. Infrascale Appliance
OR
YOUR CLOUD, OUR CLOUD, ANY CLOUD
INFRASCALE
CLOUD
PRIVATE
CLOUD
THIRD-PARTY
CLOUD

21. RECOVERY TIME FOR PROTECTED SYSTEMS

22. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
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23. DRaaS
It’s Not Just For Disasters Anymore
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/DRaaSforDR