How to Reduce Disaster Recovery Expenses
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HOW TO REDUCE DISASTER RECOVERY EXPENSES
Best Practices for Virtual Environments Chris M Evans Langton Blue Ltd
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ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
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Chris M Ev Evans ans •
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27 years experience in the IT industry across all platforms, including IBM mainframe, Windows & Open Systems. Co-founder and independent consultant at Langton Blue Ltd, a specialist consulting company in the UK.
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Blogger and part-time part -time analyst at Architecting.IT
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Twitter: @chrismevans, @architectingIT, @langtonblue
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Web: www.architecting.it www.architecting.it,, www.langtonblue.com
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The business need for BC/DR Why BC/DR is differ different ent from hardware resiliency Strategies for for implementing BC/DR based on application and business Service Level Objectives Choosing between storage array, hypervisor and applicationbased recovery solutions Choosing between VM-level and LUN-lev LUN-level el recovery solutions T echnical solutions BC/DR with virtual servers, including Microsoft Hyper-V, Hyper-V, for VMware VMw are vSphere and open source sour ce platforms Vendor roundup - 3rd P Party arty recovery recovery solutions for virtual environments 3
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THE NEED FOR BC/DR •
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BC - Busi Business ness Continui Continuity; ty; DR DR – Disaster Recovery Data and IT systems are an increasingly important (and in many cases critical) part of many organisations’ business processes • • • •
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Customer facing websites Purchasing systems ERP (manufacturi (manufacturing, ng, marketing, sales, payments) Email, VDI
Businesses can afford little or no downtime or service outages Recovery is as much about process/people as it is computer systems
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THE NEED FOR BC/DR - STATISTICS •
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30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year year.. 70% fail within five years. (Home Office Computing Magazine) 31% of PC users have lost all of their files due to events beyond
their control. 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures. 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster. Every 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States. (Mozy Onlineweek Backup) Companies that aren't able to resume operations within ten days (of a disaster hit) are not likely to survive. (Strategic Research Institute)
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HOW TO REDUCE DISASTER RECOVERY EXPENSES
Best Practices for Virtual Environments Chris M Evans Langton Blue Ltd
Copyright © 2014 Langton Blue Ltd
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ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
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clear concise consulting
Chris M Ev Evans ans •
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27 years experience in the IT industry across all platforms, including IBM mainframe, Windows & Open Systems. Co-founder and independent consultant at Langton Blue Ltd, a specialist consulting company in the UK.
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Blogger and part-time part -time analyst at Architecting.IT
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Twitter: @chrismevans, @architectingIT, @langtonblue
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Web: www.architecting.it www.architecting.it,, www.langtonblue.com
Copyright © 2014 Langton Blue Ltd
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Copyright © 2014 Langton Blue Ltd
WHA HAT T YOU WILL LEARN •
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clear concise consulting
The business need for BC/DR Why BC/DR is differ different ent from hardware resiliency Strategies for for implementing BC/DR based on application and business Service Level Objectives Choosing between storage array, hypervisor and applicationbased recovery solutions Choosing between VM-level and LUN-lev LUN-level el recovery solutions T echnical solutions BC/DR with virtual servers, including Microsoft Hyper-V, Hyper-V, for VMware VMw are vSphere and open source sour ce platforms Vendor roundup - 3rd P Party arty recovery recovery solutions for virtual environments 3
Copyright © 2014 Langton Blue Ltd
THE NEED FOR BC/DR •
•
BC - Busi Business ness Continui Continuity; ty; DR DR – Disaster Recovery Data and IT systems are an increasingly important (and in many cases critical) part of many organisations’ business processes • • • •
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clear concise consulting
Customer facing websites Purchasing systems ERP (manufacturi (manufacturing, ng, marketing, sales, payments) Email, VDI
Businesses can afford little or no downtime or service outages Recovery is as much about process/people as it is computer systems
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Copyright © 2014 Langton Blue Ltd
THE NEED FOR BC/DR - STATISTICS •
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clear concise consulting
30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year year.. 70% fail within five years. (Home Office Computing Magazine) 31% of PC users have lost all of their files due to events beyond
their control. 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures. 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster. Every 140,000 hard drives crash in the United States. (Mozy Onlineweek Backup) Companies that aren't able to resume operations within ten days (of a disaster hit) are not likely to survive. (Strategic Research Institute)
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