This customer-facing PPT was designed to help Windstream representatives guide customers and prospects through the benefits of their Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering.

1. YOUR OWN
DISASTER
RECOVERY
TEAM
ON CALL, ALL THE TIME
Disaster Recovery as a Service from Windstream

2. IS TRADITIONAL DISASTER RECOVERY (DR) EFFICIENT?
COST-EFFECTIVE? RELIABLE? PRACTICAL?
• Increased hardware and storage
• 24-hour or longer Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
• Long timelines to restore manually
from backups
• Difficult and time-consuming testing
• Specialized in-house expertise
• Building and maintaining
recovery environment
THE TIME, MANPOWER AND COSTS CAN
BE PROHIBITIVE
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3. TRADITIONAL DR VS. DRaaS
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TRADITIONAL DR
• Increased hardware and storage
• Typically limited to a 24-hour RPO
• Long Recovery Time Objective (RTO) to
restore manually from backups
• Difficult and time consuming to test
• Requires significant architectural work
DRaaS
• Leverages cloud and economies of scale
• Variable RPO down to 15 minutes with application-
level consistency
• Restored by the provider with much shorter RTOs
• Ability to view and test servers and data on production
cloud equipment
• Pre-designed and validated for common environments

4. WINDSTREAM DISASTER RECOVERY
AS A SERVICE
FASTER, MORE EFFICIENT AND MORE COST-EFFECTIVE
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• DRaaS RPO is less than 15
minutes with a Recovery Time
Objective (RTO) of 4 hours
• Cloud-to-Cloud Pod Replication RTO
is less than 15 minutes with an
RTO of less than 1 hour
• ALL AT SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS
CapEx Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
$69,600 $69,600 $69,600
$147,000 $84,050 $84,050 $84,050 DIY DR
DRaaS

5. YOUR PERSONALIZED, TURNKEY DISASTER
RECOVERY SERVICE
CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR PARTICULAR INFRASTRUCTURE, WINDSTREAM DRaaS PROVIDES:
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INFRASTRUCTURE
• Network
• Cloud
• Physical or Virtual Machines
PLANNING
• Design
• Testing
• Readiness
TOOLS
• Managed recovery
• Connectivity options
• Multiple replication
and storage options

6. INFRASTRUCTURE—THE BACKBONE OF RELIABLE DRaaS
NETWORK
• Providing high-performance data, voice, network and
cloud solutions to businesses nationwide from the very
small to the Fortune 500
CLOUD
• Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud options with 99.99%
SLA and superior performance
PHYSICAL OR VIRTUAL MACHINES
• Support for continual replication of either type of server
into the Windstream cloud
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7. PLANNING TO ASSURE THE FASTEST, MOST
EFFICIENT RECOVERY
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A personalized, consultative
assessment to determine
your needs
Requirements validation and
solution documentation for full
transparency so you know what
to expect in case of disaster
Annual disaster readiness
tests to ensure that all
requirements and expectations
continue to meet your needs

8. TOOLS TO CRAFT DR THAT’S RIGHT FOR
YOUR BUSINESS
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MANAGED RECOVERY
configures servers to run on
Windstream’s Cloud in data
centers across the U.S. in case of
disaster, with:
• Optional private network connectivity
• Security
• Key application protection for physical or
virtual servers, linked to a continuously
updated replica of each
CONNECTIVITY OPTIONS
for normal operations, or for heavy
use during DR exercises
or events:
• Internet and IPSec VPN
• Windstream MPLS
• Windstream MPLS with Internet
• Private connectivity
REPLICATION AND
STORAGE SERVICES
that provide:
• Storage-based replication for EMC- or
NetApp-powered customers
• Host-based replication for an x86 physical
or virtual environment
• Integration with existing VPNs or private
networks to secure replication traffic

9. MULTIPLE OPTIONS
AND RESOURCES
• Use the portal view to continually monitor the health of
the disaster recovery site
• Test at any time
• Multi-task your disaster recovery site
• Use it or functions like bursting when you need
more processing power
• Use it as a development area
• Enable compliance with regulations like HIPAA and
Sarbanes-Oxley
• Determine time frames—see what your data looked like
one day ago, or one year ago
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10. THE SERVICES YOU NEED—WHATEVER
YOUR PREFERENCE
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Availability in Windstream DRaaS Options
Disaster Recovery as a Service Features Server to Cloud Recovery Cloud to Cloud Recovery
RTO of 15 minutes ✓
RTO in the range of 1 – 4 hours ✓
Annual disaster recovery testing ✓ ✓
Server and application recovery into Windstream Hosted Solutions Cloud Automated Automated
VMWare Hypervisor-based protection ✓
Support for physical and non-VMware environments ✓
Self-service testing and declaration options ✓
Support for customer premise and non-Windstream managed systems ✓ ✓
Long-term retention options ✓

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WINDSTREAM
DISASTER RECOVERY
AS A SERVICE
Enjoy the confidence of your very own disaster recovery
team, with personalized service to ensure you’re prepared in
case of emergency.
We have the infrastructure, tools and solutions.
We offer the customization through consultation to make
them work for you.