Data Backup Service

Backups Discucsion Focus is primarily for file servers. What are folks using now? Are you happy with it? What don’t you like? Doing it for file recovery (documents and spreadsheets?) or server recovery What is your DR strategy for servers? Data bases/LMS? Special “not just files” cases?

RPO – Recovery Point Objective Point in time to recover from RTO – Recovery Time Objective Total time to recover RPO and RTO Definition

RPO: How much data are you prepared to lose? RTO: How long can you afford to be down? Cost Recovery Management RPO (Recovery Point Objective) RTO (Recovery Time Objective) Weeks | Days | Hours | Minutes | SecondsSeconds | Minutes | Hours | Days | Weeks

Data Protection Suite Backup-as-a-Service Recovery-as-a-Service Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

BaaS- What Makes it Different? 3 Key Differentiators 1.Simple Don’t need high-level technical resources to manage 2.Flexible Backup virtually any physical or virtual machine Backup from virtually anywhere 3.Restore Restore to virtually anywhere Can restore files and images Can use for Migration services

Physical Server Virtual Server Resource Pool or HPC 30-50% BaaS

What to back up Adjust Schedule & Frequency Managing BaaS

Adjust Retention Rules Encryption & Bandwidth

Easily verify backups

Pay for what you use…AFTER compression Simple, yet granular backup control Works with popular hypervisors and server OS No long-term contract No CAPEX Allows anywhere recovery for files and images Data is automatically compressed (30-50%) Electable AES 256 Encryption BaaS - Takeaways

Product Description: Recovery-as-a-Service is a US Signal managed service in which US Signal will recover a customer’s environment in the event of a disaster to a US Signal Resource Pool or Hosted Private Cloud environment. Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS)

RaaS – What makes it different? 1.Simple Don’t need high-level technical resources to manage— US Signal experts manage the process 2.Flexible Choose RPOs and RTOs that work for your customers Choose recovery option that is budget conscious 3.Peace of Mind Know that a DR plan is in place, tested and validated 3 Key Differentiators

Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) Two Recovery Landing Pad Options: Reserved : Customers elect to have a pre-provisioned Resource Pool or HPC environment (and all networking, DIA and Firewall components) – greatly increasing their RTO potential. On-Demand : Customers elect to NOT have a pre-provisioned Resource Pool or HPC environment.

Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) Reserved Resource Pool On-Demand Resource Pool

Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) New Resource Pool or HPC ?? ? DR Playbook Test Validate Maintain

Baas/RaaS – RTO and RPO BaaS RTO: contingent on machine size and customer Internet bandwidth/throughput RPO: customer-assigned RaaS Reserved RTO: Negotiated as part of playbook creation RPO: customer-assigned On-Demand RTO: best effort RPO: customer-assigned

DRaaS BaaS DRaaS

Basic Cloud Questions to Ask 1.How confident are you in your backup, DR, and business continuity strategy? 2.How much would downtime affect your business? 3.In addition to hardware and software costs, how much do you spend monthly to power, cool, service and maintain your infrastructure? 4.What is your strategy for refreshing your severs? 5.How do you envision cloud augmenting your IT plan over the next three years? 6.What kind of compliance regulations do you have?

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