1. Technical Overview www.planbdr.co.uk© Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009

2. About www.planbdr.co.uk Plan B is a specialist IT Disaster Recovery business based in the UK with operations in the UK and US, protecting servers in the UK, mainland Europe and the US. We provide the only simple, affordable disaster recovery service guaranteed to immediately recover working IT servers and infrastructure.

3. In a past life, we used to produce MANY quotes for DR Cut the Margin to the bone Was STILL too expensive So customers decided to compromise their requirement © Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009 Why go and Create Plan B? www.planbdr.co.uk

4. Take regular (nightly) copies of people’s machines Convert the copies to run on our environment Make a platform available to operate these systems during disasters Make it work every time Make it cost-effective Overall Principle

5. © Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009 Plan B Disaster Recovery Service www.planbdr.co.uk Take System Snapshots of protected servers In emergency: Provide instant guaranteed recovery of complete working server sets on remote platform Make work on remote virtualisation platform

6. © Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009 Plan B Disaster Recovery Service www.planbdr.co.uk A Plan B appliance snapshots customer’s servers nightly Snapshots are encrypted and sent off-site to the Plan B Recovery Platform On the Recovery Platform, the snapshots are automatically converted to run in a virtual machine then booted up and tested Recovery servers are therefore immediately available on the remote recovery platform – literally as quickly as they take to boot Customers can access their recovered systems within minutes from any Internet connection

7. ‘The Magic Bit’ Calculate differences between snapshot storage and frozen host Make updates to frozen host Apply ‘Overlays’ to perform P2V conversion, network changes, application-specific tweaks, and to deploy test harness Queue frozen host for testing ConversionConversion

8. Static P2V Test Harnesses A/D Recovery Application Specific Changes Dynamic Network Re-Addressing Host file mangling Metabase changing Exchange Reconfiguration © Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009 Example Overlays www.planbdr.co.uk

9. All snapshots tested, every time In a combined Architecture with it’s peers © Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009 Test Behaviour www.planbdr.co.uk

10. Process Diagram

11. One click invocation Systems available in the time it takes them to boot Recent Recovery Point - data typically available from last night Plan B Recovery Platform

12. Adaptive Networking Network devices reconfigured on demand Service Redirection DNS and MX configuration as well Vmware DRS Handles load-balancing inside the environment © Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009 Dynamic Platform www.planbdr.co.uk

13. Web Accessible Systems Simply over the internet, to the customer’s users Internal Systems SSL VPN IPSec VPN for site-to-site Access to Systems

14. Minimum IT down-time – Minimum disruption Handle IT disaster rather than be subject to it Simple to set up and live with Guaranteed recovery within minutes Recovery independent of the IT Team Very cost effective © Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009 Benefits of the Plan B service www.planbdr.co.uk