Until recently, enterprise-grade DR had been prohibitively expensive, leaving many companies with high risk levels and unreliable solutions. Now, many organizations are enjoying top-of- the-line disaster recovery at a fraction of the price, thanks to the rapid development of cloud technology. CloudEndure and Actual Tech Media are thrilled to present this presentation, with a cost comparison of 3 Disaster Recovery Strategies, and much more.
2. According to CloudEndure’s 2016 Disaster Recovery
Survey, the biggest challenges are:
Insufficient IT resources
Budget limitations
Lack of in-house expertise
Disaster Recovery Practices & Trends
Insufficient IT resources • 19%
Budget Limitations • 17%
Lack of In-house expertise • 16%
Keeping up with the pace of change/growth • 14%
Limit on our ability to prevent software bugs • 11%
Cloud resource capacity •9%
Limit on our ability to prevent configuration errors •8%
Coping with peak demand • 7%
Source: CloudEndure Disaster Recovery Survey 2016
3. But, why not?
Just ask Delta Airlines - A mere 5-hour outage in August 2016
cost them over $150 million.
Organizations today understand the critical need to recover fast
from IT outages, application failures, malicious attacks to:
• Ensure resilience
• Stay competitive
• Avoid regulatory risks
• Keep customers happy
• Maintain reputation
Disaster Recovery: No Longer “Nice-to-Have”
4. So, What’s the Problem?
“Why don’t all enterprises have air-tight,
100% reliable business continuity disaster
recovery strategies in place?”
“Can’t IT departments simply set up
multiple data centers that continually
replicate workloads and when a disaster
strikes, just redirect to the DR site?”
5. 3 Disaster Recovery Strategies
To answer these questions, let’s first examine the three main
DR strategies currently used by enterprises, while focusing on the
expected costs of each:
On-Premise Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
6. On-Premises Disaster Recovery
Enterprises have traditionally handled IT disasters internally,
but to keep an on-premise disaster recovery solution up-to-date requires
a large investment:
DR Infrastructure & Services: IT resiliency solution requires duplicate
infrastructure to restore entire systems to previous state,
incurring capital expenditures & operating expenses.
Software Licenses: Duplicate third-party software licenses required,
plus application or DR-specific replication software.
Management Monitoring: IT staff resources necessary to manage & monitor
DR software & infrastructure.
7. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Due to high costs and the expertise needed to implement on-premise DR,
many turn to third-party DRaaS providers for failover support in case of
disaster:
DR Infrastructure & Services: Normally more cost effective than
on-premise DR, but very costly compared to the economies
of scale of a cloud provider
Software Licenses: May still need to duplicate licenses for applications so they’re
available quickly during disaster.
Management Monitoring: No need to pay additional on-premise IT staff, but must
pay DRaaS provider. (Costs differ by vendor.)
8. Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
The revolution in disaster recovery began a few years ago with the
advancement of cloud technology and the pay-as-you-go approach of public
clouds.
DR Infrastructure & Services: Keeps an organization’s data in real-time sync using
lightweight compute and storage without duplicate hardware needed, until you
actually need it.
Software Licenses: No need to purchase duplicate software licenses for your standby
DR site.
Management Monitoring: Automation for DR, so fewer IT resources required to
launch or maintain DR solution.
9. Taking a Closer Look at the Annual Costs
Small Enterprise Large Enterprise
# of Servers 250 750
DR Strategy On-Premise DRaaS Cloud-Based On-Premise DRaaS Cloud-Based
DR Hardware $1,997,000 $378,000 $39,000 $6,818,000 $1,309,000 $118,000
DR Infrastructure,
Licensing, &
Services
$1,284,000 $984,000 $205,000 $4,500,000 $3,237,000 $532,000
Total $3,281,000 $1,362,000 $244,000 $11,318,000 $4,546,000 $650,000
*Annual Costs
10. Is the Cheaper Option Necessarily the Better One?
The Answer = It Depends
Technology for cloud-based DR can vary greatly from
one vendor to another
Some cannot guarantee data consistency or support
all of your applications
Others may impact your server performance or
deliver inadequate RPO or RTO
The right DR technology should enable you to achieve
the enterprise-grade resilience and performance of on-
premise and DRaaS solutions, but with the dramatic
cost reduction of the cloud.
11. Additional Benefits of Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
When using the most advanced technology, Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
provides additional benefits, including:
Easy Testability -- Quickly spin up machines for your periodic DR drills without
disrupting your source environment.
Self-Service DR -- Configure your cloud environment, replicate your servers, and
perform your DR drills whenever you want. Deployment is easy, and access to cloud
resources is instantaneous.
Flexibility Between Infrastructures -- Protect physical, virtual, or cloud-based machines.
Use public cloud of your choice & easily move to a different cloud provider if desired.
12. Bird’s-Eye View of the 3 Strategies
On-Premise DRaaS Cloud-Based
Enterprise-Grade
Total Cost of Ownership High Medium Low
One-Touch Deployment & Maintenance
Easy Testability
Easy Scalability
Easy Self-Service DR
Flexibility Between Infrastructures
Software-Defined DR Site
13. 1. How much data loss might I
experience during a disaster
(RPO)?
2. How long will it take to recover
during a disaster (RTO)?
3. Can a cloud-based DR solution
support my physical & virtual
machines? What about legacy
applications?
4. Is it possible to use the cloud for
disaster recovery without moving my
primary workloads to the cloud?
5. How can I ensure the security of my
applications?
6. How would I easily failback once the
disaster is over?
FAQs About Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
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14. Vote Now: What are your top business continuity challenges?
15. All Platforms
Mobilize your workloads from
physical, virtual, cloud-based,
and hybrid infrastructures to
any cloud platform.
All the Time
Keep your business running
without downtime or data loss
using our continuous, block-
level, real-time replication.
All Automated
Bring up your servers in minutes
with our fully automated machine
conversion and cloud
orchestration engines.
Disaster Recovery & Live Migration to the Cloud
16. Case Study: ClickSoftware’s RPO Goes From 24 Hours to Last Transaction
1. ClickSoftware had in-house disaster recovery
solution but needed to upgrade to keep up
with rapid growth.
2. Wanted to use AWS as their DR infrastructure
3. System integrator recommended CloudEndure
for AWS-based DR solution
4. Implemented “Continuous Replication Protection” without system disruption
• RPO = seconds RTO = minutes
• Lower TCO
• Non-disruptive drills
17. “One of the things I love about CloudEndure is that it replicates not only machines and data, but the entire
application stack. With CloudEndure we were able to move from losing up to a day’s worth of data to what
we call ‘up to the last transaction.’”
- Igal Korach, Director of Cloud Operations, ClickSoftware
Case Study: ClickSoftware’s RPO Goes From 24 Hours to Last Transaction
18. 85% TCO Reduction
Leverages the cloud to keep your data in sync using lightweight
compute and storage. You only pay for your workload during
disaster, reducing TCO by 85%.
Non-Disruptive
Our Continuous Data Protection (CDP) engine works in memory,
does not use snapshots, and does not write any data to disk,
which means near-zero impact on performance.
Bottom Line: CloudEndure’s Benefits
19. Any to Any
Provides equally efficient replication and recovery solutions for
any source infrastructure and any target infrastructure, and all
major clouds (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform &
OpenStack.)
Bottom Line: CloudEndure’s Benefits
Minimal RTO & RPO
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) enables real-time updates
and near-zero RPO. It eliminates need to retrieve data manually,
thereby enabling near-zero RTO.
20. Bottom Line: CloudEndure’s Benefits
Independence & Control
Test your target machines as often as you like by just
clicking a button.
Move easily and quickly to any target infrastructure of your
choice, which means no resource-draining vendor lock-in.
Enterprise-Grade Security
Follows the highest security standards and is ISO 27001
compliant.
Provides in-transit data encryption using AES 256-bit and
supports at-rest data encryption in your target site.
Replication traffic transmitted directly from your source
machines to your target site.
The results are based on responses from 141 IT professionals from around the world, collected through an online survey conducted in January 2016
It may be clear that cloud-based disaster recovery is the least expensive approach but, is this “cheaper” option as effective and enterprise-grade as on-premise or DRaaS solutions?
ClickSoftware had relied on a homemade disaster recovery solution
They needed an enterprise-grade DR strategy to keep up with rapid growth
Wanted to use AWS as their DR infrastructure
Integrator recommended CloudEndure for DR solution that’s easily integrated into AWS
Implemented Continuous Replication Protection without system disruption
RPO of seconds with the ability to create an exact replica of all workloads within less than 5 minutes
ClickSoftware now has a cost-effective and reliable cloud-based DR solution.
Annual DR drills no longer a concern thanks to non-disruptive, easy-to-launch drills, at a much lower TCO
ClickSoftware had relied on a homemade disaster recovery solution
They needed an enterprise-grade DR strategy to keep up with rapid growth
Wanted to use AWS as their DR infrastructure
Integrator recommended CloudEndure for DR solution that’s easily integrated into AWS
Implemented Continuous Replication Protection without system disruption
RPO of seconds with the ability to create an exact replica of all workloads within less than 5 minutes
ClickSoftware now has a cost-effective and reliable cloud-based DR solution.
Annual DR drills no longer a concern thanks to non-disruptive, easy-to-launch drills, at a much lower TCO
