How to Ensure Business Continuity in the Cloud

How to Ensure Business Continuity in the Cloud and change the way we use and manage IT

Giorgos Gerogiannis, Datacenter & Cloud Solutions Manager

IT needs to become smarter … get new choices

• Some use the word “Cloud” to describe new consumption and delivery models.

• Regardless of terminology, it is clear that these new models are emerging for the enterprise – even if they were first inspired by consumer Internet services.

• Self-service, economies-of-scale, and flexible sourcing options – new choices of deployment – define these new models.

Uni Systems Secure Cloud Services…

Built with Reliability in mind

ISO 27001:2005 •Hosting Services for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipment and high-availability office facilities in the

Company’s Data Centre

•Cloud Services including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS)

•Professional Services including the design, installation, administration and technical support of ICT

Physical Security

Protection of the Data |Technology

Reliability of Operations

People Security Aware

NDA Agreement

Processes Business Continuity Mgmt

Availability Management

Professional Services

Background checked

Operational & Change Control

Managed Backup

Access Control Mgmt

SLA Mgmt

Monitoring

Secure Information exchange

Audit Logging

Quality Assurance Data Deletion Mgmt

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Your Clients, Employees, Bank, Insurance Company, Accountant, and Family

are depending on you to back up and run quickly after a disaster

• EARTHQUAKE

EARTHQUAKE

Electrical Storm WILDFIRES

FLOODS

Traditional Approaches to DR

Backup Your Data

• Focus is on protecting data:

o Tape backup

o Imaging

• Poor performance:

o Slow RTO, RPO (days)

• Hidden costs:

o How do we get the data back

in to a useable state?

o How long to rebuild server?

• Focus is on protecting application

o Clustering

o Like-for-like infrastructure

• Performance, but at what price?

o Near-zero RTO, RPO

• High cost:

o Duplicate infrastructure

o Management complexity

Traditional Approaches to DR

Data Replication - Mirroring

Cost

TIME

RTO RPO

Cost of

Data

Availability

Cost of

System

Availability

Ideal Solution Set

Hours Required to Resume Business Hours of Lost Transactions

0 HOURS HOURS

Cost of

Data Loss

Cost of

System

Downtime

Balancing Business Requirements and Cost

Bridging the Gap

• Fast RTO and RPO

• Duplicate resources

• Costly and complex

• Slow RTO and RPO

• Over commitment of

recovery resources

Duplication Backup

Solution Design Challenges

• Identify the ideal solution set

between Cost of Data Loss and

Cost of Data availability

• Easy Access

• Support Legacy, Physical and

Virtual servers

• Provide support for multiple

operating systems

• Address limited bandwidth

• Address Compliance issues

• Address Country Risk

• Evaluate per Application RPO – RTO

• Evaluate DR resource needs

• Design DR users access providing physical

and virtual seats

• Assess per application data change rate

• Design the right Replication techniques to

reduce replication data

• Use the right tools to optimize WAN usage

• Use the right tools to support Physical –

Virtual and Legacy systems

• Provide 3rd replication hop out of Country

Uni Systems Cloud DR Solution

Paying only for the Business Continuity you use

• No Startup Investment

• In the event of a disaster, Uni Systems will restore your chosen servers

into our cloud platform. Users are then able to remotely login to their

virtual desktops and access business critical applications and data from

any internet connected PC or workstation

• Access from Anywhere

• Cloud DR pricing is simple, transparent and is based around a low fixed

monthly fee

References

Customer Type of Services

Major Financial Institution

Disaster Site Hosting, Operations room

Major Financial Institution

Disaster site Hosting, Operations room

Major Telecom Operator

Disaster site for specific business applications

Energy SAP aaS

Media Web aaS

Governmental Institution

Mail aaS

Manufacturing Hosting, Remote Desktop

More than 6 Financial Institutes

PAYroll as a Service

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