What's Wrong with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

and How to Fix it

Join us as we explain:● Challenges with Traditional Disaster Recovery● Why organizations are Using the Cloud for DR (DRaaS)● Challenges that Cloud based DR (DRaaS) creates● Alternative Approaches to DRaaS

On Demand WebinarFor audio playback and Q&A

go to:http://bit.ly/DRaaSFix

● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:http://storageswiss.com

Who Is Storage Switzerland?

Our SpeakersGeorge 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.

Our SpeakersNeil Glazebrook, VP Product Management, ClearSky Data

Neil leads the product management team at ClearSky. Throughout his career he has served in various senior product management positions, bringing complex networking and video technologies to market. Before joining ClearSky Data, Neil was a product manager in Akamai's media business unit, and then in a channel sales role managing six of Akamai’s largest media channel partners.

Prior to Akamai, Neil held senior product management roles at Cisco Systems over the course of 13 years. During that time, he spearheaded the formation of Cisco’s video networking business unit and was a key member of the integration team that oversaw the Arroyo acquisition. He led early adoption of solid state drives for Cisco’s service provider video product portfolio, helping drive down costs while dramatically increasing streaming cache performance and session density.

Neil co-authored an IEEE paper on multicast IPTV distribution and error correction. He recently earned an MBA with Honors from Babson College.

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ClearSky's global storage network delivers enterprise storage, spanning the entire data lifecycle, as a fully-managed service.

Polling Question

What’s Your Biggest DR Challenge?

What Types Of Disasters Are There?

• Site Disaster

• Server / Application Disaster

• Storage System Disaster

• Operational / User Error

Users don’t differentiate anymore

Disaster Recovery Challenges• User Expectations higher than ever

• Faster recovery

• Less data loss

• No matter the disaster type

• Application Explosion• More apps to recover in a disaster

• Of course all these apps create more data

• Overall Explosion of Unstructured Data

Disaster Recovery Challenges• Expensive

• Facility and equipment

• Software and networking

• Testing

Enter Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

• Data is Backed up or Replicated to the Cloud

• If there is a Disaster:• Data and application is restored in provider’s cloud

• And is hosted by provider until primary data center can be reestablished

• Recovery options:• Provider restoration of data to their compute platform

• Mounting of the VM image on their backup storage

• Activating data on live volume (replication)

The DRaaS Advantages

• Organization does not have to pay for a full secondary site

• Organization does not have to equip secondary site

• IT does not have to go to secondary site to execute recovery

• Provider “may” be able to assist with recovery

• Relatively easy to test

The DRaaS Challenges• Networking issues to be resolved during recovery

• Return to operations time-frame is hard to predict

• Time to move data from backup storage to production storage

• How many other recoveries are going on (in a disaster could be hundreds)

• Overkill for a site, server or storage disaster

• Which are far more likely to occur

• Difficult to pinpoint performance after failure

• At some point you still need to get data back to the on-prem data center

The IT Dilemma

• Leverage DRaaS but put up with challenges

or• Do it yourself and put up with expense,

complexity and risk

or• Leverage edge computing and the cloud

for primary storage and DR

Primary Cloud Storage DR Advantages

• Data is already in the cloud

• Does not need to move in or out

• Compute can be anywhere

• On-prem, alternate prem or in the cloud

But there is a latency problem...

Solve The Latency Problem To Get DR Advantages

• Move Applications to the Cloud

• Compatibility, security and performance concerns

• On-prem cache

• But cache miss represents severe performance drop

• On-prem cache with second metro-cache/tier

• Final data stored in cloud

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SCALABILITY PERFORMANCESECURITY

ON-PREMISESCLOUD

RELIABILITYECONOMICS

THINK

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Changing How Enterprises Access Data

Eliminate Storage Silos

Guaranteed 99.999% Uptime

99.999%

Multi-site Data Access without Replication

DATARECOVERY

PRODUCTION

Pay as You Grow

90 GB

100 GB

Fully Managed, 24x7 Customer Support

On-Prem Performance + Cloud Scalability

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Traditional DR Environment

VPN

Router

High-speed connectionfor asynchronous or synchronous replication

Primary Data Center

Primary Array

APP 1 APP 2

Router

Backup Data Center

Backup Array

APP 1 APP 2

End Users

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ClearSky DR PoP

Primary Metro PoP

APP 1

APP 2 APP 3

CustomerData Center

APP 1

APP 2

APP 3

The ClearSky Architecture

iSCSI/FC

CustomerSAN

2x EPL

Backing Cloud

APP 1

APP 2 APP 3APP 1

APP 2

APP 3

End Users

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Multi-Site AvailabilityLoad Balancing and Disaster Recovery

ClearSky DR PoP

Backing Cloud

APP 1

APP 2 APP 3

Primary Metro PoP

APP 1

APP 2 APP 3

Customer DC 1

Customer DC 2

APP 1

APP 3APP 2

APP 1

APP 3APP 2

End Users

VPN

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Multi-Site AvailabilityLoad Balancing and Disaster Recovery

ClearSky DR PoP

Backing Cloud

APP 1

APP 2 APP 3

Primary Metro PoP

APP 1

APP 2 APP 3

Customer DC 1

Customer DC 2

APP 1

APP 3APP 2

APP 1

APP 3APP 2

End Users

VPN

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• Low latency / high-performance access to CSD service from within customer’s virtual datacenter in the Public Cloud

• Application level migration between physicaland virtual datacenters

Workload Mobility – Cloud DR

Primary Metro PoPBacking Cloud

CustomerData Center

APP 1

APP 2

APP 3

APP 1

APP 2

APP 3

Public Cloud

Cloud Stack

APP 3APP 1 APP 2

APP 3

End Users

VPN

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CHALLENGE:

1. Deliver agile, cloud-based storage services to growing customer base2. Create a secure, logical path for customers to move primary storage to the cloud

SOLUTION:

ClearSky's fully-managed global storage network:• Resolves both latency and data portability issues • Delivers complete data mobility across multiple clouds for DR

BENEFITS:

ClearSky helped increase the MSP’s bottom line by:• Speeding up on-boarding of new customers• Optimizing its infrastructure • Eliminating data replication management and costs• Making all data available from distributed locations

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Use Case: Cross-Metro Data Mobility for DR

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What's Wrong with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

and How to Fix it

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