Enterprise-Grade Disaster RecoveryWithout Breaking the Bank

October 2016

According to CloudEndure’s 2016 Disaster Recovery Survey, the biggest challenges are:

Insufficient IT resourcesBudget limitationsLack 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

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”

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?”

3 Disaster Recovery StrategiesTo 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

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.

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.)

Cloud-Based Disaster RecoveryThe 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.

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

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.

Additional Benefits of Cloud-Based Disaster RecoveryWhen 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.

Bird’s-Eye View of the 3 StrategiesOn-Premise DRaaS Cloud-Based

Enterprise-Grade

Total Cost of Ownership High Medium LowOne-Touch Deployment & Maintenance

Easy Testability

Easy Scalability

Easy Self-Service DR

Flexibility Between Infrastructures

Software-Defined DR Site

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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Vote Now: What are your top business continuity challenges?

All PlatformsMobilize your workloads from physical, virtual, cloud-based, and hybrid infrastructures to any cloud platform.

All the TimeKeep your business running without downtime or data loss using our continuous, block-level, real-time replication.

All AutomatedBring up your servers in minutes with our fully automated machine conversion and cloud orchestration engines.

Disaster Recovery & Live Migration to the Cloud

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 infrastructure3. 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

“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

85% TCO ReductionLeverages 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-DisruptiveOur 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

Any to AnyProvides 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 & RPOContinuous Data Protection (CDP) enables real-time updates and near-zero RPO. It eliminates need to retrieve data manually, thereby enabling near-zero RTO.

Bottom Line: CloudEndure’s Benefits

Independence & ControlTest 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 SecurityFollows 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.

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