Disaster Recovery and Cloud -
The opportunity is bright for IT providers to help their SMB customers with disaster recovery in the cloud, says Rachel Dines, senior analyst for infrastructure and operations at Forrester Research. But she tells writer Colleen Frye, it is too early to suppliers and users
Channelpro-SMB.? What professionals need to know about DR in the cloud
Dines: Everyone needs DR; it is not specific to the company size or industry. It is a solution potentially have a lot of adoption, especially in the SMB space where DR was very black or white traditional technologies have dictated that either you spend a lot of money and get a fast recovery, or spend some and get slow recovery. There was not much in between. That's where these solutions fill a great gap in the market.
Understand the basic models and make sure that you can explain the different types of DR in the cloud
Understand the basic models and make sure you can explain the different types of DR in the cloud; That is why it is important to think about things like tests. This is one of the main advantages of [DRaaS] approach DR-as-a-Service. SMEs and companies were wrong to try, not to exercise their DR plans enough. One advantage of the test is DRaaS is much easier, cheaper, and is managed and supported by the service provider. So a major incursion to the conversation is to talk about DR exercises; most companies know they are not good enough testing
Channelpro-SMB :. You break "disaster recovery cloud" into three categories. Can you explain
Dines: [First is] do-it-yourself [DIY]. You work with a public cloud provider and delivery capacity from them. You are on your own to replicate data and virtual machines on their website. When disaster strikes you call the cloud provider, all your staff. I do not see this as a big opportunity for SMB. It requires great expertise and internal capacity; even for companies, it is very complex.
With DR as a service, as consumers worry all you get is agents / devices deployed in the service environment, setting goals and RTO-RPO [recovery time objectives/recovery point objectives] -and they [the service provider] would manage replication, ensuring the environment is recoverable, as well as testing and failover. This solution covers the SMB and enterprises. It is probably the best solution for many SMEs because it does not require in-house expertise.
[Cloud-to-cloud disaster recovery (C2C DR)] is for companies that have a production infrastructure deployed in the cloud. If you decide "we'll run our entire environment in the cloud," you should always think about DR. Many people assume the cloud is bulletproof, but I note that the clouds live in data centers, and data centers live in geographical areas that are vulnerable to risks. For most [C2C DR] is an additional feature that you pay for a cloud service provider; they perform tests for you and failovers, and show that the recovery is verifiable. This is for anyone who went to the cloud with production systems, so that in all sizes of companies
Channelpro-SMB.? How IT suppliers provide the best solution for their SMB customers
Dines: much boils down to RPO / RTO. You can guide them, depending on what kind of scenario they want; for example, hot, hot, and cold clouds. A hot cloud is a complete replica of the primary and RTO website are as close to zero as possible. Most people seeking a warm approach, replication offline virtual machines to the cloud, so you can start virtual machines from there. RTO are two to six hours. With a cold cloud, you replicate backups in the cloud, and at the time of the disaster you rehydrate backups and turn them into virtual machines. RTO are between six and 48 hours
Channelpro-SMB :. Are there pitfalls to DR in the cloud
Dines: This is too early for this technology. It is not a case of using completely proven yet, but I'll wait to grow up. If channel partners are ready to jump in they have the potential to get momentum early, but we still do not know exactly where we're going to go in this space.
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