1. Atlas Lee, CBCP Director Of Business Continuity
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery: Solutions For Firms Of All Sizes
Atlas Lee, CBCP
Director Of Business Continuity

2. AGENDA Overview of business continuity and disaster recovery
Primer of various business continuity and disaster
recovery solutions
Backup solutions and storage options
High availability for hardware and applications
Recovery options
Scale recovery options to fit the size of the firm

3. What do you have in place now?

4. What’s the difference? Business Continuity Planning
Process of developing advanced arrangements and procedures that enable an organization to respond to an event in such a manner that critical business functions continue without adverse interruption. (Proactive)
Disaster Recovery Planning
Defines the resources, actions, tasks and data required to manage the business recovery process in the event of a business interruption. The plan is designed to assist in restoring the business process within the stated disaster recovery goals. (Prepares you to respond reactively)

5. Various Solutions Software None (no planning, no recovery)
Word Processor (basic functionality, but does not provide automated updating)
PC Based Planning Software (provides planning content & generation, automatic formatting and importing, but confined to one PC)
Enterprise Planning Software (same as above, but resources can be shared by several individuals)
Storage Management (provides the capability to manage backup and recovery if you have multiple storage devices and backup options)
Virtual Machine software (provisions several operating systems onto one server)

6. Approximate Cost

7. Various Solutions Hardware Basic Non-redundant
Redundant (raid technology, hot swap disk drives, power supplies, etc)
High Availability (mirrored systems)

8. Backup Solutions & Storage Options
Tape
LTO (Linear Tape Open technology; Ultrium is a single-reel format targeted at users requiring ultra-high capacity backup, restore and archive capabilities. The Ultrium format enables manufacturers to develop products with up to 200GB of compressed capacity and deliver transfer rates from MBps)
SDLT (Super Digital Linear Tape with capacities up to 600 GB and transfer rates up to over 70 MBps )
AIT (Advanced Intelligent Tape, 8mm format with capacities up to 500 GB and transfer rates up to over 24 MBps)
S-AIT (Super Advanced Intelligent Tape is a ½ inch format, 1 TB of compressed capacity and transfer rate of 78 MBps compressed)

9. Backup Solutions & Storage Options, cont.
Libraries
Silos
Virtual

10. Backup Solutions & Storage Options , cont.
Disks
Disk Array
SATA
Mirrored

11. Backup Solutions & Storage Options
Storage Solutions
NAS (Network Attached Storage, designed specifically for data storage)
SANS (Storage Area Network provides high speed, dedicated long-distance network access to large volumes of data)
Tape/Disk Libraries (provide higher density and capacity of tape and disk storage along with centralized management)
SATA Arrays (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment Arrays provide low cost solutions that can be used for secondary storage and disk to disk backups)

12. High Availability Fault Tolerance Failover Raid Technology
Dual Power Supplies
Dual Network Interface Cards
Stripping
Failover
Automatic (may be more expensive, minimum downtime)
Manual (less expensive, but there will be downtime)

13. Telecommunications and Data Communication Considerations
Automatic or Manual Switchover
To re-route calls or data
Multiple Vendors
To reduce total reliance on single vendor
Multiple ISP Vendors
To prevent single point of failure of Internet services
DSL
Provides an alternative to Frame or ATM
Bi-Directional Ring Topology
Provides diverse and redundant routing

14. Telecommunications and Data Communication Considerations, cont.
Other
Standardization and redundancy in network hardware at each border router location to enhance redundancy
Options
Remote VPN
Wireless (make sure it is secure)
Microwave
Satellite

15. Telecommunications and Data Communication Considerations, cont.
Options
Pagers
Cell Phone
PDA Devices/Blackberries

16. Recovery Options Nothing In-house Solution Reciprocal Agreement
You will certainly pay later
In-house Solution
Must have capable personnel and access to applicable resources
Reciprocal Agreement
A good solution for small to midsize firms that have good working relations with other firms
Alternate Office
Will need to have the necessary resources in the alternate office to make it work

17. Recovery Options, cont. Cold Site Warm Site Hot Site
Usually pay a monthly fee for the space, and you will need an agreement with a vendor to supply the equipment and have to staff the facility for the restoration
Warm Site
You may need to provide some of the equipment, and may have to staff the facility for the restoration
Hot Site
Expensive, but has multiple restoration options

18. Recovery Options, cont. Co-location Mirrored Site
Replica of your systems in a facility that may or may not be owned by you
The provision of space for a firm’s telecommunications, network and/or computer equipment on the service provider's premises

19. Scaling Recovery Options to Meet Your Needs
Commitment
Cost
Recurring Expenses
Resources
Priorities
Recovery Time Objective
Recovery Point Objective

20. Scaling Recovery Options to Meet Your Needs, cont.
Low to High

21. Summary Plan Thoroughness Plan Efficiency Plan Effectiveness
Does the plan bring the enterprise back to expected operational capacity?
Plan Efficiency
Is the cost to recover in line with the financial risk you are exposed to?
Plan Effectiveness
Does the Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan recover the systems and applications to your expectations?

22. Consequences of Inadequate Planning
Delayed recovery of our business!
LOSS
TIME

23. Questions ???

24. Resources Disaster Recovery Journal www.drj.com Enhanced Backups
IBM Global Services
Contingency Insights
Contingency Planning & Management

25. Thank You!