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Is Your JD Edwards Recoverable?Disaster Recovery Solutions for JD Edwards Customers
Presented by: Ward Quarles, director strategic
alliances
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Is this your disaster?
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Agenda
• Introduction• Disaster Recovery Preparedness• What is a Disaster?• Solution Overview• Customer Scenario – Hurricane Sandy• Velocity Credentials• Final Q&A
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Definitions• Availability – System uptime measured as a percentage of continuous access
to your data and applications.• Business Continuity – A strategy that ensures business operations will
continue despite a service interruption.• Disaster Recovery Plan – Documented and tested plan listing your business
recovery objectives and priorities.• Downtime – The amount of time that users cannot access systems, whether
planned or unplanned.• High Availability – Solutions that provide continuous operations with limited
disruptions.• Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – Measurement of the point in time that your
company needs data to be restored. Tolerance for loss of data.• Recovery Time Objective (RTO) – Measurement of the length of time that your
company needs to resume near normal business. Tolerance for loss of system access.
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• How much data loss can you risk?• Most organizations depend on backups to
protect their data.• Recovery from backups defined in hours to
days.• High Availability recovery in minutes to hours.
DaysHoursMinutes
Recovery point objective (RPO)
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Point ofDisruption
Resumptionof
operations(Businessor Data
Processing)
Time-SensitiveSystems
Operationalwith Current &Accurate Data
timeBusinessProcessesFunctional
RTO
Recovery time objective (RTO)
• How long before your systems are available?
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Oracle customer recovery profile
It’s a fact:• 12% don’t have a recovery solution or plan• 24% have an IBM or SunGard warm-site solution in
place and have never completed a successful test • 25% have an in-house,
same site recovery solution
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A poor availability solution guarantees
• Loss of Data• Business Disruption• Conflict• Potentially Lost Customers
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Disaster recovery goals
THE GOAL:• Minimize business downtime• Meet your recovery objectives• Restore availability of
critical business systems• Interruption to business measured in hours
and minutes rather than days
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No one wants to be in a position of explaining why your organization could not recover from a disaster.
JD EDWARDS DISASTER RECOVERY REQUIREMENTS
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What is a disaster?
• ANYTHING that stops your business from functioning and that cannot be corrected within an acceptable amount of time.
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According to Velocity…
• Anything unexpected that restricts access to your • JD Edwards is a disaster.
• Natural or regional disasters• Extended Power Outages• Operator Error• Hardware or Disk Failures• Malicious Insider/Outsider Attack• Planned Maintenance Gone Wrong
• …YOU Decide what Constitutes a Disaster!
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Common disaster recovery exposures
• No documented DR plan or process• No recovery facility• Local tape storage• Equipment constraints• Human resource limitations• Lack of JD Edwards expertise• Loss of data (Recovery Point >24 hours)• Lengthy recovery (Recovery Time >48 hours)• No recent test to validate recovery ability
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JD Edwards customer requirements
• Reduce risk and exposure• Proven and reliable disaster recovery solution• Meet corporate disaster recovery objectives• Meet budgetary requirements• Scalable to meet future needs• RTO and RPO assurance• Successful, documented annual testing • Geographic diversity for recovery center
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JD Edwards BCDR market overview
TAPE BACKUPS
RPO
RTO
ENTERPRISECLUSTER
Zero to seconds
12-24 Hours
Minutes1-2 Weeks 48-72 Hours
$$$Velocity ManagedRecovery Services
PRICED TO COMPETE WITH SUNGARD &
IBM BCRS
INTERNAL/ALTERNATE SITE
IBM BCRS
SUNGARD
HIGH AVAILABILITYLOGICAL REPLICATION
(Internal/External)
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Does backup = recovery?
• How many people backup their system?• Of the company’s that perform regular
backups…– 42 % are in-complete– 21 % ( iSeries/400 ) are un-recoverable– 36 % ( Intel ) are un-recoverable
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What about your email?
• Email has become mission critical!• Email represents the way you communicate
with customers, partners, and employees.• In a disaster situation, this may be a key
component of your communications strategy.• Is Email listed as a critical application for your
organization and included in your recovery plan?
READY FOR SANDY?
Companies regularly deal with natural and man-made disasters
Risk is increasing Disasters happen
Forrester Research
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Sandy’s impact on DR planning
• How prepared was your business?• Did you protect your equipment from wind and water?• Were your recovery plans executed?• Was your staff available?• Did your provider allow you to declare prior to the disaster?• Perfect opportunity for a recovery test!• Review our article on Mersen USA.
Disasters, large or small, can have a major, adverse impact
93% of businesses that suffer a significant loss of data are out of business within 5 years. (Bureau of Labor)
2011, Ponemon Institute© Research Report, Sponsored by Emerson Network Power
Risk is increasing Disasters happen Loss is significant
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In conclusion
• Your goal is continuation of business operations.
• It is not enough to only arrange for hardware replacement.
• Planning must address equipment, staffing, and recovery skills.
• Task at hand is to educate executive management on existing vulnerabilities.
• Present solutions along with associated costs.