3 things you will want to pay attention to when choosing a cloud disaster recovery provider.
Let’s face it. We are always online in one form or another. If I am not watching television, checking mail, or using one of the 44 apps I have on my smartphone, then I am probably sleeping. Because of these use patterns, the demands on application availability are on the rise, and data is exploding. So let’s think about these two forces and how they impact disaster recovery (DR) planning for your businesses. These forces increase the DR workload for IT staff. As a result, your IT staff may be spending more time on DR instead of supporting strategic and revenue-generating projects. In other words, IT is only helping to maintain the business, not grow the business.
Cloud disaster recovery may be the answer
How do you overcome tight budgets and leaner IT staff when you are constantly being asked to do more with less? Well, you might consider “out-tasking” DR management by using cloud-based disaster recovery services.
Cloud disaster recovery services are being recognized for their ability to overcome limitations that affect some of the more traditional DR approaches. In recent years, for example, large-scale natural disasters such as Hurricanes Irene and Sandy in the US exposed flaws in infrastructure availability for many companies, as well as gaps in their DR plans. However, cloud DR services helped many companies recover during these disasters by providing off-site data storage, replication, and mirrored facilities.
Benefits of cloud disaster recovery
One benefit of using the technological capabilities of cloud DR services is that the cloud DR provider is responsible for the management of all backup equipment and storage systems. Since companies are constantly adding more devices (secondary site hot spares and storage devices) due to the increasing need for data, IT resources are being disproportionately impacted. Using a cloud DR service, however, the administration, management, and maintenance of the equipment in your recovery site is handled by the provider, not your IT staff. This eliminates the burden and overhead to your business.
A qualified cloud disaster recovery provider can reduce the time and drive down the costs of carrying out such management chores compared to doing the same work internally. What’s more, service providers will utilize documented best practices, dedicated and trained professionals, and invest in recovery automation tools. Unless you’re in the business of disaster recovery, there’s almost zero chance that you would invest in any of these tools yourself.
Don’t forget about change management
Another area where a provider could free up IT staff time involves change management. With today’s highly virtualized environments, and constant stream of patches, updates, and OS upgrades, keeping a backup site in sync with a production environment adds to an IT staff’s workload. Here again, a suitably chosen cloud DR service provider would be able to help. For example, a provider might institute change management procedures to ensure all modifications in a production environment are carried over to the backup environment.
One theme that I keep noticing after both major disasters and everyday outages is that many companies simply do not have the time or the staffing power to update DR plans and conduct tests on a regular basis. The results of one recent study found that 90 percent of IT decision makers believe their data is vulnerable in a disaster.
Consider a cloud disaster recovery provider
A suitable cloud disaster recovery provider could provide the workers and expertise to help evaluate risks, conduct a business impact analysis, and develop a DR plan. The provider’s staff could then help with putting recovery processes into place, testing the plans, and ensuring services can be restored in the timeframes needed. Out-tasking these items to a cloud DR provider frees up your IT staff for other work.
Considering these factors, cloud-based DR services offer an alternative to legacy DR approaches and are ideal for some organizations that could not previously afford to implement disaster recovery or found it to be too time-consuming a task.
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By Madhu Reddy, Director of Product Management, Recovery Services
If your company is like many of SunGard’s customers, your workforce needs 24×7 access to mission- and business-critical applications, many of which now run as virtual machines (VMs). Therefore, in order to keep business operations going, it is essential that you rapidly recover these VMs in the event of an outage.
In part 1 of this blog, I talked about the strategies for protecting VMs at an offsite location. To summarize, I noted that maintaining a replicated infrastructure at a secondary site is too cost prohibitive for most companies, while manual recovery using an on-demand hot-site is economically more appealing, but can be too time-consuming. So what’s a savvy IT Director to do to set him/herself up for the successful recovery of VMs? Well, this is an area where cloud-based recovery services can help.
Specifically, I would suggest looking into offerings that fall under the category of Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS). In fact, more than two-thirds of IT professionals are either actively adopting or at least interested in implementing cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS), according to Forrester. RaaS can help reduce restoration times of VMs AND lower the cost of managing recovery operations, and I’d like to take a moment here to shamelessly give you a preview of a new SunGard service offering, Recover2Cloud: SRM (“R2C: SRM”) for VMware environments.
We are partnering with VMware and using their vCenter SRM 5.0 (VMware’s Site Recovery Manager) tool as the basis for our VM recovery-as-a-service offering for several reasons. First of all, for VM recovery, it is essential that the tool we, as a DR service provider, use is one that our customers are already familiar with and commonly use. Secondly, in addition to being able to manage failover between two sites with active workloads, SRM can also take charge of failover from production datacenters to disaster recovery sites. Thirdly, SRM comes with built-in recovery blueprints to make many of the DR processes and steps (discussed in part 1 of this blog) easier and quicker, helping to shorten RTOs, reduce errors, and enforce the use of best practices.
Now that I’ve given props to VMware and SRM, let me tell you what I’m most excited about in our new offering. As part of SunGard R2C: SRM, we fully manage the replication and recovery of your virtual machines, monitoring your environment on a daily basis. On top of that, we offer you a choice of Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) – from 4 to 14 hours, take your pick – like a good DR service provider should. This service comes in two flavors (“Always On” and “On-Demand,”), and what I am most excited about is the way our customers have ingeniously managed to use the “Always-On” model (where we at SunGard dedicate infrastructure to the customer). Those customers who have chosen this model have been innovatively using VMs at their SunGard second site for a variety of use cases, from user acceptance testing to QA testing, all without interrupting VM replication processes. Isn’t that cool? (Obviously, I think so.)
It goes without saying, of course, that using the cloud for recovery effectively transfers your capex expenditures on a second site infrastructure into opex, and buys you and your IT staff time to focus on value creation programs – instead of worrying about DR, an admittedly high-risk, but low-reward function of IT. SunGard’s R2C: SRM offering is no different, and I’m thankful to be able to contradict the title of my own blog post and announce that “Recovering VMs is now a piece of cake with SunGard’s R2C SRM!”
By Michael de la Torre, Vice President of Product Management, Recovery Services
In a recent session at VMworld, the question was asked: “Have you looked at DR to the cloud?” Of the 50 people in the room, more than half said they had not looked at it, but thought it sounded intriguing (55%). Another 10% responded, “Yes, it’s fantastic!” This seems to jive with a Forrester report I recently read that more than two-thirds of all IT professionals were actively implementing or interested in implementing a cloud-based solution for disaster recovery.
People who tout the cloud usually point to the benefits of reducing the capex and opex costs associated with buying and maintaining servers, networking, and storage elements. But with so much hype around DR to the cloud, I wonder if people are able to cut through the buzz and understand the critical truth: that when used for recovery efforts, disaster recovery in the cloud can definitely help reduce recovery times and lower the cost of managing recovery operations, but onlyif the right service is chosen.
Here are some of the things you’ve got to consider when deciding on a Recovery-as-a-service cloud vendor:
Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Beware the vendor who only offers you a single Recovery Time Objective (RTO)/Recovery Point Objective (RPO). With only one RTO for your entire environment, you might be spending too much or too little on DR. This is because you should almost always tier your applications into three buckets of importance: mission-critical, business-critical, and best-efforts. Each of those buckets should have its own unique RTO – usually with the mission-critical applications needing recovery times of under 4 hours, business-critical applications requiring recovery times of under 12 hours, and best-efforts applications taking 24 hours or more.
Some examples:
If your vendor offers you a 12 hour RTO, then your mission-critical applications will not have the appropriate level of availability, and you would be under-spending.
Conversely, if your vendor offers you a 4-hour RTO for all your applications, you would be spending too much on keeping those non-mission-critical applications available.
Ideally, your cloud vendor offers you a range of RTO/RPO options.
A Compatible Recovery Environment: Chances are, your applications are running on a mix of physical and virtual server platforms, hypervisors, operating systems, and storage. To further complicate things, your applications are likely interdependent – meaning that they rely on other applications in order to deliver a complete business process. As John Donne said “no man is an island”, the same can be said of applications… no application is an island. Your recovery environment should therefore reflect your production environment and provide the same mix of platforms, hypervisors, operating systems, etc., so that you can bring up your applications in a consistent way, according to the interdependencies you’ve identified. If your recovery cloud vendor operates an environment that is too homogeneous, then you’re likely going to fail when you go to restore applications that do run on hybrid physical-virtual stacks.
Managed Services: Data protection is not disaster recovery! If you think, “I’m backing up my data to the cloud, so I’m covered for DR,” then you’re in for a nasty surprise if you should ever experience the need to recover. All you’ve done is protect your data, which is necessary, but not sufficient. During an actual disaster, you’ll also need someone to spin up the servers and networking and storage equipment to perform the actual recovery too, so it’s preferable to have those co-located with your data.
On top of that, you’ll also need recovery runbooks with the right processes, and the right people with the right expertise to recover your applications. So, the ideal cloud-based recovery service provider should also give you the option of leveraging their expertise to help plan and execute your recovery operations. And since DR test planning and execution take up much IT staff time and budget, it would also be smart to look for a vendor whose staff can take over that function as well. I’m not saying you HAVE to take advantage of this added service…just that it would be nice for you to have the added flexibility and the option to do so.
What are YOUR thoughts on using the cloud for disaster recovery? Are their factors to consider that I haven’t mentioned? I look forward to your comments below.
In less than a week we’ll be hopping a plane from our corporate headquarters in Philly, and heading to “The City by the Bay” for VMworld 2012 at the Moscone Convention Center, August 26-30. This year we will be a Bronze Sponsor and will be holding down the fort in booth #2322.
During the expo, stop by our booth to meet with our cloud specialists and learn more about: A Cloud So Solid, our flexible, secure, cloud computing offerings for production hosting and recovery as well as our unmatched consulting services. Follow and tag your tweets with #ACloudSoSolid for the latest details and to get the play-by-play from the show floor.
We have a number of exciting things happening this year at VMworld that you can’t miss out on. From white boarding sessions in our booth where you’ll get to roll up your sleeves and dig deep into several topics with our experts, to a Twitter contest where you’ll have a chance to win one of many prizes and lastly a VMworld panel session where we’ll be discussing DR to the Cloud with VMware’s Gil Haberman and SunGard’s Michael de la Torre.
Here are all the details you need to know when putting together your VMworld “must do” list:
Roll-up your sleeves at one of our white boarding sessions: (All sessions take place in our booth, #2322)
Breaking through Barriers to Cloud – Tuesday, August 28, 12:15pm; Wednesday, August 29, 12:15pm
With all the mystique surrounding Cloud, it’s hard to believe this new IT delivery model was built using existing infrastructure elements that have been around for years. What’s truly exciting about Cloud services however, are how these elements are fused together in ways that allows us to re-imagine what an IT operation can be. And with any disruptive event, there are benefits as well as challenges. Learn about the real and perceived barriers to the cloud in this session.
Delivering Security-as-a-Service (in partnership with Alert Logic) – Wednesday,August 29, 3:45pm
With the adoption rate of Software-as-a-Service growing, and the increased demand of Managed Security Services, a new solution category has been created: Security-as-a-Service. Although considered a barrier to cloud adoption, security can also help accelerate an organization’s evolution into the cloud. In fact, companies that deploy security-as-a-service in their environment have realized a reduction in security breaches and network attacks. In this session, learn how organizations are restructuring their security posture to take advantage of the Cloud.
The Three Challenges of Recovering Hybrid Environments – Monday,August 27, 3:15pm; Tuesday, August 28, 3:15pm
Although virtualization does make disaster recovery easier, the world is still not 100% virtualized. As long as there are still critical business applications running on hybrid physical and virtual infrastructures, the recovery of these applications is actually harder, not easier. If you have a complex physical environment running multiple applications on multiple platforms, operating systems, storage, and hypervisors, and have not made proper preparations in your recovery environment, then it could throw a significant “monkey wrench” into your recovery success.
How Solid is Your Cloud? (in partnership with Cisco) – Monday,August 27,12:15pm
A lot has been written about the different types of clouds. What hasn’t been delved into as deeply is cloud infrastructure and the importance of availability. Users need to access data around the clock and the systems that deliver that data need to be protected from outages and interruption. This live white boarding session will provide an overview on the importance of a secure and recoverable infrastructure and discuss the role of unified switching within a vblock infrastructure
Hear the latest on “DR to the Cloud” in this panel discussion with VMware:
DR to the Cloud – Service Provider Perspective”with Michael de la Torre, SunGard Availability Services and Gil Haberman,
VMware, Inc. – Tuesday, August 28, 2:00pm
Many organizations today do not have adequate disaster recovery protection for their applications. In most cases, disaster recovery is perceived as too expensive and complex. DR is a natural fit for the cloud, and VMware’s Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Services make disaster recovery broadly accessible for all applications and sites by providing simple, cost-efficient and automated disaster protection using SRM 5 and vSphere Replication. In this session, VMware and SunGard will present new services that are delivered using vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication. We will also discuss the future evolution of these services. Get more details on this panel discussion here.
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When I was a kid growing up in the Southeastern United States, I spent a lot of time in the back of my Mom’s lime-green Dodge station wagon, accompanying her on her many business trips to Miami, Florida. I used to love it when I got asked to go, because a) it meant I could miss school; and b) it meant I could eat as many of those delicious Florida mangoes as I wanted.
I remember driving back with her once during a hurricane – she thought she could “get ahead of it” and get home to Savannah before it got too bad. Well, she was wrong.
The storm seemed to descend from nowhere, and things got so windy, rainy, and gusty that we had to pull over to the side of the road to wait it out. It was actually very scary as she and I sat huddled together in the back seat, witnessing the awesome powers of nature crash through the world around us.
Suddenly, we heard a loud CRACK, followed by the sound of glass breaking. When I turned around to look behind us, I saw that a mango had crashed through our back windshield, creating a giant, gaping hole. I remember being delighted, as it meant I could eat another of my favorite fruits, but my Mom was pretty upset.
Now that I’m a Mom, I’m actually somewhat appalled at the risk my mother took with me. While I love the idea of mangoes flying unbidden into my kid’s lap, I would never drive home during a hurricane, with or without her. So I’m glad Florida Hospital looked themselves in the mirror and figured it out; it shows a greatness of vision, I think, as well as the wisdom to take responsibility for their destiny and the willingness to take concrete actions to fortify their future.
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EMC World lived up to our expectations once again this year! From several product launches, acquisitions announcements and sneak-peek’s into what’s coming later this year and into 2013, there was something exciting around every corner.
During the conference, we met with several customers and partners including Enterprise Rent-a-Car, New York Life Insurance, Xerox, Boeing, University of Chicago, and Cisco. One common theme we witnessed during the event was that Big Data is real, it’s here and it’s being commercialized in a variety of different ways.
On Wednesday of the conference, our friends at Brocade invited us to participate in a discussion with John Furrier and Dave Vellante of theCube. Michael de la Torre, vice president product management, recovery services at SunGard, sat with the cube to discuss current trends and our position on big data, cloud and disaster recovery.
Check out the video with Michael de la Torre and theCube here:
We also had the opportunity to deliver a presentation at the EMC Select booth the third day of the show. Derek Siler, senior product manager, SunGard Recovery Services discussed the topic “ ‘Timesharing’ Disaster Recovery – DR Solutions at Fraction of the Cost”. In case you missed the presentation, check out the SlideShare deck below.
After an exciting and busy few days at EMC World, we attended a much needed entertaining evening at the EMC sponsored Maroon 5concert. It was also great to see EMC-ers sporting, with pride, the half white wig (cloud) and half holiday lights (big data) hats designed to mimic the attendee deemed “creepy guy” logo of the show. We didn’t mind the cloud/big data guy though, or the crazy hats – both showed the camaraderie and pride of being an EMC-er!
We’re escaping the cold, wintery weather at our headquarters in Philadelphia and heading to Silicon Valley for Cloud Connect Santa Clara (#ccevent) February 14-15, 2012. Cloud Connect brings together the entire cloud eco-system to better understand the transformations cloud is bringing to the Enterprise.
As a Platinum sponsor, we’ll be setting up shop at booth #414 where SunGard representatives will be available to discuss our cloud offerings, including our Enterprise Cloud Services and cloud-recovery services. Stop by our booth during the expo for a scratch off ticket* where you could win an Apple® MacBook® Air, Apple® iPad® 2 or a $5 Starbucks® gift card. Every card is a winner, so be sure to stop by. We’ll also be attending several sessions throughout the duration of the conference where we’ll be live tweeting, posting to our Facebook wall and shooting video in our booth. Follow us for the play-by-play!
Prior to the conference, join us for Happy Hour at Birk’s Restaurant from 5:30 – 7:00 pm on Monday, February 13th. REGISTER HERE if you plan to attend Happy Hour. Registration is required. (Get Directions to Birk’s Restaurant from the Convention Center).
Also on the schedule this year, SunGard Availability Services will be delivering two presentations during the conference. The first session will examine the increasing need for private cloud solutions and things to consider when evaluating a private cloud solution. Session details below:
Taking a Private Path to the Cloud Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 1:15 PM-2:15 PM Presenter: David Ayers, senior product manager of Cloud services at SunGard Availability Services Location: Grand Ballroom H Description: Enterprises are actively exploring cloud solutions to help drive down overall IT costs and increase operational efficiency, all while minimizing risks and reducing complexity. However, the vendor landscape is filled with public solutions not always suited to Enterprise needs for security, compliance, service levels and high availability. This session will discuss the growing need for private cloud and the different aspects to consider when evaluating private cloud solutions.
The second presentation, slated for Wednesday, will review the top 5 considerations for cloud-based recovery.
Recovering Applications to Cloud: Top 5 Considerations for Raising Service Levels with Tiered Recovery Services Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 12:05 PM-12:25 PM Presenter: Ram Shanmugam, senior director of product management at SunGard Availability Services Location: Cloud Solutions Theater Description: In this session, SunGard will offer an inside perspective on the top 5 considerations for cloud-based recovery, which are: analyzing applications by business value, selecting modern data movement into the cloud, automating recovery steps, using enterprise-class cloud platforms, and scoping network requirements. SunGard will also provide an overview of its Recover2Clouds services suite [Check out this VIDEO], which packages modern data movement for tiered recovery benefits.
Stop back here for updates during and after the conference, follow us on Twitter, and don’t forget to stop by booth #414 for your chance to win an Apple® MacBook® Air, Apple® iPad® 2 or $5 Starbucks gift card. See you in Santa Clara!
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*Entry Card must be scratched-off in front of SunGard representative at Booth #414 during the Expo hours of Cloud Connect 2012 to be valid.
Contest Terms and Conditions One card per person. Contest is limited to residents of the United States and the District of Columbia. No purchase is necessary to enter. SunGard employees are not eligible to win. Chances of winning Apple MacBook Air 1:500, Apple IPad 2 2:500, Starbucks Gift Card 497:500.
Ram Shanmugan, our Senior Director of Product Management for Recovery Services, was recently interviewed by Smart Business Philly magazine. Below are some of the important points he discussed. We’ll have more next week. – Carl M.
“Weathering a storm” is more than just an off-hand comment these day. The U.S. experienced eight disasters costing over $1B in the first 6-months of 2011. Few areas of the U.S were shared the business complications caused by tornado, blizzard, wildfires and floods.
Planning for erratic weather can be tricky. Of course, you want secure data, redundant infrastructure and business continuity processes, but balancing those needs against the needs for revenue-generating IT projects is difficult.
Fortunately, “recovery in the cloud” offers a cost-effective, reliable option. It lets you formulate the right availability service for your applications, from mission-critical to important but infrequently used applications.
Four elements drive the decision to move to a cloud-based recovery service:
Cost savings. The ability to fulfill recovery needs and lower costs is the most significant driver,
RPO/RTO. The Recovery point objectives (how long you can tolerate an application being down) and the recovery time objectives (how long it takes to recover the application) determine the level of resources your need to avoid serious impact to your business.
Reliability. The true value of a recovery environment comes during a time of disaster, and managed cloud-based solutions offer higher reliability in recovery of mission-critical applications than do in-house solutions.
Skilled Resources. In-house recovery solutions require an investment in specialized skills to support the recovery infrastructure. Cloud-based recovery eliminates that need.
Can your IT department recover from an outage without incurring emergency resources and costs?
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Cloud has received much industry attention in the last year. Some believe that cloud is a marketing fad. But others recognize that virtualization technologies when implemented as a cloud make fundamental changes in how applications can be designed, managed, maintained – and, most interestingly in terms of the Recovery Services line of business at SunGard, cloud also changes how applications can be recovered.
It is a truism by now, that cloud “is just another platform.” However, the differences in the platform are fundamental – with huge implications for the applications which run on them. ITIL best practices are also at work, changing the process by which applications are developed, tested, and provisioned in most organizations. The result seems to be more modular applications designed with “share-everything” resource utilization, to lower costs and improve efficiencies.
Even for traditional applications, however, cloud offers some exciting new recovery options. New recovery options include:
Shared tenancy with other organizations, to spread the cost of resources across more budgets – and lower the recovery platform costs for all
Receive faster, automated response to real-time fluctuations in capacity demand – across networks, compute and storage resources
Recover applications faster due to automation capabilities built into the cloud platform – capabilities which avoid human error and other delays
Transform traditional Capex into Opex monthly fees which are structured to be “pay-as-you-go” – which further reduces the pressure on IT budgets
These exciting new opportunities to ease recovery costs are helping more organizations to put effective disaster recovery in place for their businesses, by lowering the costs and increasing the benefits. Additionally, organizations are able to more of their applications under sufficient recovery protection, by lowering the costs of recovery across every type of application.
However, cloud platform does not solve everything for recovery. Some of the key challenges which are unchanged by cloud include:
The need for organizations to adopt modern data movement, to improve recovery points and recovery times and eliminate costs and risks associated with tape-dependent disaster recovery
The need for organizations to analyze applications value and the impact of downtime to their businesses – so they can appropriately prioritize recovery spending and resources
The need for applications expertise built into recovery plans and procedures
The need for organizations to maintain and test their recovery plans and procedures, on a regular basis
Hurricane season brings into focus the need for companies to reexamine disaster recovery plans. As we’ve been meeting with companies on how to prepare for the volatile weather season, we advise organizations to approach hurricane preparedness not as a reactive disaster recovery process but as the opportunity to manage a hurricane as a planned event. The plan process can benefit organizations not just on their worst day, in the wake of a disaster, but every day, by revealing critical gaps in the availability of production environments.
Unlike many other weather-related events, hurricanes have a relatively long warning time-frame, which can allow for the proactive relocation of people and corporate assets in advance of the storm rather than waiting for the worst to occur.
As part of hurricane preparedness, companies should examine the role cloud computing can play as a new platform for lower-cost applications recovery. Infrastructure recovery is evolving to include a combination of physical, virtual and cloud components, allowing organizations to mix and match to meet specific needs of the applications and systems being recovered. Incorporating this expanded range of options makes it more critical than ever to be sure your recovery service provider has proven experience in handling real-life production operations along with designing high availability solutions and managing business continuity plans.
Additionally, recovery plans should include a process to guide operations in moving back to production systems from recovery sites following failures and disaster threats, such as after a hurricane passes.
What’s more, many businesses fail to take into consideration the time it takes to move recovered applications back to a production environment following a disruption. Automation capabilities, and careful sequencing of data resynchronization and service restart, are essential in speeding this process and minimizing the impact on business users.
Among the other drivers behind the trend toward recovery in the cloud are:
•Cloud-based recovery services utilize a shared, not dedicated, IT infrastructure which can help reduce customer costs of having additional capacity available when it is needed.
•Cloud computing provides a service pricing model so companies can ramp up capacity as needed during a hurricane response, without incurring added CAPEX.
•Fully-managed recovery services on a cloud platform can help reduce the cost and burden of recovery planning and testing during a disaster.
•Recovery planning and testing can reveal critical gaps in production environments and help close those gaps for improved daily operations.
What are your recovery plans during Hurricane season?
