1. Business Continuity Robert Hedblom | sumNERV John Joyner | ClearPointe
Cloud and Solution Principal Architect
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John Joyner | ClearPointe
Senior Director, Technology

2. Robert Hedblom John Joyner @RobertandDPM @john_joyner 8 Year CDM MVP
10 Year CMD MVP
20+ years in IT, 15+ years Business Continuity
MSP industry pioneer, Co-author SCOM Unleashed series
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3. Answering the questions…
What is Business Continuity?
Why is it relevant?
How to get started?
What's in it for me?
What technical solutions are there?

5. #1 Business Continuity is an activity
#2 Business Continuity is implemented BEFORE the disaster.

6. Business Continuity components
BCP (Business Continuity Plan)
BCM (Business Continuity Methodology)
BIA (Business Impact Analysis)
TRA (Threat and Risk Analysis)
SLA (Service Level Agreements)
Change Management

7. BCP – Business Continuity Plan
It all starts with your Business Services
Identify them
Classify them (BIA)
Map out the technology
Processes and Routines

8. TRA – Threat and Risk Analysis
Hurricane
Power cut
Cyber attack
Fire
Sabotage
Flood
Earthquake
Etc.

9. BIA – Business Impact Analysis
If something happens, how does that impact my business?
Urgent vs. non-urgent
Create a plan that presents the different scenarios
Recovery requirement

10. “Backup or Restore…that is the question”
Traditional backup
What is the purpose of your backup
Traditional Backup vs. Intelligent Business Continuity

11. RTO: RPO: Determine - RPO & RTO Recovery Time Objective
How long can the service be down?
RTO:
Recovery Time Objective
RPO:
Recovery Point Objective
How much data can you afford to lose?

12. Business Continuity Plan – Summary
Restore scenario
Proactive Monitoring
Automation
Disaster Recovery

13. #1 A service-level agreement (SLA) is a part of a standardized service contract where a service is formally defined. #2 Particular aspects of the service – scope, quality, responsibilities – are agreed between the service provider and the service user. ”

14. Workloads drive thee BC tool choices
SQL
SQL  Azure
Site Recovery Manager with SQL Always-ON
Azure Backup
File and Folder
Windows Backup
Backup to Azure
System State / BMR
Windows Backup Feature
DPM
Active Directory  Azure
Exchange
Windows Backup
DPM
Exchange DAGs and Dumpster V2
SharePoint
Central Admin / Management Shell
Hyper-V / VMware
Windows Azure Site Recovery

15. System Center 2016 Operations Manager to monitor and manage:
Windows Backup
Hyper-V Replica
System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
Windows Azure Subscription and Virtual Network Health
SQL Server Backup Jobs
Exchange Distributed Availability Group (DAG) Health
Active Directory Replication Health
Monitor manual failover of workloads on DR site activation

16. Microsoft Operations Management Suite
Insight & Analytics
Gain visibility across your workloads
Log collection and analytics
App and server dependency mapping
Network health monitoring
Automation & Control
Ensure availability of apps and data
Advanced data protection
Application and site recovery
Storage archival and management
Security & Compliance
Respond faster to security threats
Threat prevention
Threat detection
Threat response
Protection & Recovery
Enable consistent control and compliance
Process automation
Change configuration management
Patch management

17. Azure Site Recovery Simplify your BCDR strategy
Provide flexible replication
Easy failover and recovery
Eliminates secondary datacenter

18. Azure Backup
Backup Azure IaaS
Basic DR within the cloud concept
RTO

19. How to get started Associate your technology to a Business Service
Make the technology work for you
Be proactive
Define a realistic SLA

20. DEMO

21. Cloud-first Architecture
Hybrid Backup (OnPrem -> Azure)
Cloud Backup (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
Azure Blobs/ Files
SCDPM/Azure Backup Server
MARS Agent
Backup Extension
PaaS Extn
SaaS Extn
FUTURES..
Azure Backup Service
Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)
Geo redundant storage (GRS)
Archive storage

22. Answering the questions…
What is Business Continuity?
Why is it relevant?
How to get started?
What's in it for me?
What technical solutions are there?

23. Need answers? Don’t be afraid to ask me in person! Contacts:
Robert Hedblom