VDR OVERVIEW
FULLY MANAGED REPLICATION
AND DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES
by VERIZON TERREMARK
VDR OVERVIEW
FULLY MANAGED REPLICATION
AND DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES
by VERIZON TERREMARK
Virtualized Disaster Recovery (VDR) enables customers to replicate data, applications and operating systems from their production environment into a securely managed Cloud Computing environment located within a Verizon Terremark facility, where they can failover to a production-ready environment in the event of a catastrophic outage at their primary facility. Customers pay for CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity in an on-demand enabled infrastructure that is owned by Verizon Terremark. This on-demand capability controls disaster recovery costs for the customer by eliminating the need to purchase and maintain expensive, dedicated technical infrastructure.
The VDR Environment is initially populated with replicated data from the Customer Environment. After Failover, which occurs after the customer has declared a disaster (“Disaster Declaration”), the customer will use the VDR Environment in a temporary production capacity while the original customer IT infrastructure is restored. After the customer’s IT infrastructure is restored, Verizon Terremark will transfer data from the VDR Environment to the customer’s recovered IT infrastructure (“Failback”).
The reference architecture is shown below:
Many companies need their data replicated offsite (e.g. for compliance reasons) and do not have budget for a full Disaster Recovery or backup solution. As a result, the data is not replicated and there is vulnerability. The Verizon Terremark VDR Storage Replication Option (SRO) represents a cost-effective solution for efficiently and securely replicating a customer’s data offsite and then making it available for restore in case of data loss at the customer site. The SRO does not provide a failover option. Rather, if the customer’s production SAN is lost, the customer may experience an outage until their production storage area network (SAN) is recovered. When the production SAN is recovered, Verizon Terremark will make available the replicated data for transfer back to the recovered production SAN. Professional services are available for service setup or data recovery.
The VDR service is available for all Verizon Terremark colocation customers in all Verizon Terremark Data Centers and for customers
with their IT assets outside of Verizon Terremark data centers. Please note that this service is not currently available to our Managed Hosting customers.
The VDR service provides infrastructure in the following locations:
Verizon Terremark provides the VDR customer with all the required services to implement replication, provide periodic testing and perform Failover in the event of a disaster declaration.
Most companies recognize that they need to not only protect their corporate data offsite, but also to replicate their mission critical IT infrastructure. Still, they have many concerns on how to accomplish this:
As a result, many organizations do not have a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution in place for their IT infrastructure, leaving themselves vulnerable.
“We found performance gains across the board” – Brian Corrigan, CTO Agora Games
From perfomance to storage, compliance to integration, get all the facts on Enterprise Cloud.
This is why funda recently started using Verizon Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud as part of its disaster recovery solution ….read more by downloading the customer case pdf
Topic:Leveraging the Cloud for Cost Effective Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Date: May 14th
Location: Brussels. (invitation only)
Topic:Leveraging the Cloud for Cost Effective Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Date: May 15th
Location: Naarden. (invitation only)
A Case for Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery, Backup and Restore: Cost Controls, Increased Manageability and Flexibility
Analysts to Dispel the Hype and Examine the Reality of RaaS at Gartner Data Center & Operations Summit, November 28-29 in London, and at the Gartner Data Center Conference, December 5-8 in Las Vegas
By 2014, 30 percent of midsize companies will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud, also known as recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), to support IT operations recovery, up from just over 1 percent today, according to Gartner, Inc.
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/1841114
Adoption of cloud computing will move from SaaS to more sophisticated uses such as disaster recovery (DR), backup, business continuity and desktop as a service. But despite this, IT teams are continuing with antiquated DR practices, found a TechTarget – Computer Weekly survey.
It should come as no surprise, the explosion of digital information is real and continuing to grow at a much faster pace than our ability to capture, preserve and use it effectively. Analyst firm IDC predicts that by 2015, the world will generate and store 8,000 exabytes of digital information (see Figure 1). Growing at a rate of 10 times every five years, this figure will reach 80,000 exabytes by the end of the decade.
http://www.drj.com/articles/online-exclusive/big-data-disaster-recovery-in-the-cloud.html