Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides powerful APIs and services that enable AWS to be used for production use cases, including “pay as you go” disaster recovery (DR) in the cloud. In this presentation you’ll learn about, and see how, CloudVelocity automates processes to leverage these APIs for entire app environments, from the OS to configurations, updates, patches, and even IP addresses. This helps businesses use the AWS Cloud to enable faster disaster recovery of their critical IT systems without incurring the infrastructure expense of a second physical site. The webinar will also demonstrate a live migration of a multi-tier app and environment into AWS for DR, and the impact of automation on DR deployment for the City of Asheville, NC.

1. Advanced Strategies for Leveraging AWS for
Disaster Recovery

2. Welcome
Maya Cabassi
Partner Marketing Manager
Amazon Web Services

3. Webinar Overview
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4. Abdul Sathar Sait
Solutions Architect
AWS
Presenters
Anand Iyengar
Co-Founder & CTO
CloudVelocity
Gregory Ness
VP, WW Marketing
CloudVelocity
Jonathan Feldman
CIO
City of Asheville, NC

5.  Overview of Disaster Recovery on AWS
 Demo of How CloudVelocity automates critical processes for physical
and virtual app environments
 Case Study: The impact of automation on DR deployment for the City
of Asheville, NC
 Q&A
What We’ll Cover

9. Pay only for
what you use

22. 22April 30, 2014
DR Models Summary
Warm Standby

23. 23April 30, 2014
Pilot Light DR Concept
“Ignite” Instances as Needed
Keep ‘pilot light’ on by continuously replicating
and synchronizing app workload (group of
machines, OS, libraries, binaries, configs,
services, app stack and app data)

24. 24April 30, 2014
Pilot Light DR – 90% Cost Savings
No capital investment
No commitment
No risky capacity planning
Metered usage
Pay as you go
Avoid opex
and risks of
physical media
handling
Control your
geographic
locality for
performance and
compliance

25. 25April 30, 2014
Pilot Light DR vs 2nd Data Center Economics

26. 26April 30, 2014
How We Do It
Secure Network Extension
OHC™ Platform
Customer
Data Center
OHC™ Platform
• Discover hosts (physical or VMs)
in the application and map
dependencies
• Blueprint hosts: static and
dynamic workload characterization
• Provision EBS Storage Volumes
• Start continuous replication and
synchronization of all hosts
• Pilot Light is on after initial sync
has completed
• Failover
– Launch instances
Application
or Site
Downtime

27. 27April 30, 2014
Demo
Drag and Drop Automation
— Automation of many critical processes reduces deployment cost

28. 28April 30, 2014
City of Asheville - Before
Uneven Protection
— “Urgent” systems protected, “important” systems not
Unacceptable DR Location
— DR site 2 blocks away, unfunded $200k DR proposal
No Automation
— Virtualization useful but not sufficient
— Almost no DR exercises because of manual switch
RTO = 12 hours, RPO = Evenings

29. 29April 30, 2014
City of Asheville - Before
DR excellence (based on
traditional IT) was a challenge
• High fixed capex, no pay-go
• Uneven protection
• Limited agility
• Geography risks
• Limited DR testing – no automation

30. 30April 30, 2014
City of Asheville before CloudVelocity DR
Point of Sale App
— Supports event ticket sales at US Cellular
Center, 7500 seat arena
— Need for DR: an outage during an event
impacts sales volume until system can be
restored from backup; manual sales slows
down process
Asset Management App
— Used by Asheville to track work orders,
maintenance and infrastructure asset
management
— Need for DR: an outage requires restore
from backup with possible loss of one day
of data and increased difficulty tracking
work orders
City of Asheville Data Center
OHC™ Platform
PoS GUI AMS GUI
Web
Microsoft
IIS
App
Micros
Symphony
SQL SVR
2008
DB
SQL SVR
2005
Prod Dev
Microsoft
IIS
Maximo
IBM WebSphere

31. 31April 30, 2014
City of Asheville Data Center
City of Asheville with CloudVelocity AWS DR
OHC™ Platform
PoS GUI AMS GUI PoS GUI AMS GUI
Web
Microsoft
IIS
App
Micros
Symphony
SQL SVR
2008
DB
SQL SVR
2005
Prod Dev
Microsoft
IIS
Web
Microsoft
IIS
App
Micros
Symphony
SQL SVR
2008
DB
SQL SVR
2005
Prod Dev
Microsoft
IIS
Maximo
IBM WebSphere
Maximo
IBM WebSphere
Secure
Network
Extension
OHC™ Platform

32. 32April 30, 2014
City of Asheville - After
Pilot Light DR on AWS
- No massive capex commitments
- Enhanced security versus existing datacenter
Agility and Fairness
– Can scale up and down to meet growth
- Pay as you go offers fair usage-based cost
Geographic Diversity
– DR on AWS West Region, not two blocks away
- Local/regional problem – power, earthquake – doesn’t affect AWS
Extended Protection
- More apps protected, “urgent” and “important”
- Security – implemented AWS, City security guidelines, tested
RTO = 2 hours / RPO = 4 hours

33. 33April 30, 2014
Lessons Learned
• Deep testing of app needed
• Don’t take license keys for granted
• Don’t test the same day as Bleeding
Heart 
• Watch out for poorly set-up apps
(plaintext passwords over http)
• Internal vs external DNS & certs

34. 34April 30, 2014
The Power of Pilot Light DR
1) No upfront capital investment
2) No long term commitment
3) No risky capacity planning
4) Usage-based costs
5) Geographic locality control
6) Extended protection to important yet unprotected apps
Up to 90% cost savings compared to traditional DR
approaches.
Enterprise class DR without the complexity and cost of
traditional DR

35. 35April 30, 2014
JetStream Program
• First 15 companies or cities (250+ employees)
• 90 day PoC trial, launched by June 7, 2014
• Includes deployment services pack
• Windows or Linux
• Pilot Light DR on AWS or R2R Failover on AWS
• $25,000 Value - does not include AWS charges
greg@cloudvelocity.com for details

36. 36April 30, 2014
Cool Vendor Report Now Available
greg@cloudvelocity.com
Gartner, Cool Vendors in Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery Management, 2014, Roberta Witty, John Morency, Robert Naegle,
April 24, 2014.
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Gartner document is available upon request from CloudVelocity.
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for a particular purpose.
CloudVelocity
Named a Cool
Vendor by Gartner

37. Contacts
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