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Tags: Disaster Recovery
Author: Pete Benoit
Date: September 14, 2017

DRaaS Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank — Reserved Storage and Burst Compute

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Date: September 14, 2017

Author: Pete Benoit

Editor’s Note: As of January 2022, iland is now 11:11 Systems, a managed infrastructure solutions provider at the forefront of cloud, connectivity, and security. As a legacy iland.com blog post, this article likely contains information that is no longer relevant. For the most up-to-date product information and resources, or if you have further questions, please refer to the 11:11 Systems Success Center or contact us directly.

 

For veterans of the IT services industry, DR has always been a popular topic of conversation with potential clients. Those that have been around long enough will certainly remember how many of those conversations progressed.

Typically, it went something like this:

Potential Client: We’ve determined that our current IT infrastructure DR plan puts our business at risk and we are interviewing service providers to assess potential solutions.

IT Services Vendor: What are your infrastructure RPO and RTO targets?

Potential Client: Our CIO wants us to maintain an RPO/RTO of four hours or less.

It wasn’t that long ago that everyone in this conversation would have understood that the quote from the service provider was going to be well beyond what the client intended to spend as part of the overall IT budget. This was typical for both small and large environments. Inevitably, the parties would work backwards by decreasing the expected deliverables for the solution until an acceptable price point could be reached. Sometimes the solution met so few of the organization’s requirements, that the conversation would be abandoned with no action.

Was the CIO delusional for requesting such aggressive (for the time) SLAs? Of course not. The importance of the data and the underlying applications and infrastructure was self-evident. The reality was that not only were the options to meet those goals extremely expensive, there was very little guarantee they would work as planned when it came down to crunch time.

The reason for the expense was that each production resource had to be duplicated, to a certain extent, at the remote site. This infrastructure would need to be purchased or leased, co-located, upgraded and maintained by experienced technicians. All of this served the hope that it would never have to be used in a live situation.

Fast forward to the present and with the evolution of virtualized workloads, resource pools, metered billing and any to any replication technology, those RPO/RTO targets are now achievable at a fraction of the cost. The underlying services billing model that makes this a reality consists of a reserved billing storage component for data replication and burstable billing compute resources that can be deployed on-demand and billed per hour of use.

Reserved storage provides a target storage repository sized to handle all replicated workloads plus potential growth dependent on changes in the production environment. Reserved storage is billed on a per GB per month basis. The storage reservation quantity can be increased at any time to mirror changes in the production environment.

Burst compute refers to on-demand CPU and RAM, which are necessary to operate the virtual workloads during production failover or testing. Because replication is accomplished without live workloads, the burst compute resources are available on-demand, and no charges are incurred until the workloads are powered on. CPU is metered on average GHz of CPU used per hour. RAM is metered as average gigabytes (GB) consumed per hour. These burst compute charges are tallied and billed monthly. When testing or failback is complete, the resources are returned and the burst charges are no longer accrued.

While cost is still top of mind for IT Directors and CIOs, the conversations around solutions for IT’s data protection and DR needs are drastically different. Reserved storage plus burst compute pricing for DRaaS allow IT organizations to execute a robust disaster recovery plan without having to pay for live compute resources waiting for use. The major obstacles to a credible DR solution, even for small businesses, have been mitigated by technological advances and the widespread adoption of said advances.

Once the question of cost has been addressed, the discussion moves to more important issues. How do end users connect to the DR environment once failover is complete? Does the recovery site adhere to the same security standards as my production environment? How is failback accomplished? These are just a few of many important questions not related to cost.

In conclusion, the reserved plus burst model allows customers to apply the advantages of two pricing models where it makes the most sense thereby protecting critical data without the burden of barely used, monthly infrastructure costs at the service provider location. A comprehensive solution will also provide assisted initial setup, volume discounts for storage, simplified day-to-day operations via a self-service console, straightforward network configuration, the option for customer-initiated failover, and detailed billing, monitoring and compliance reporting.

Category: DRaaSBy Pete BenoitSeptember 14, 2017
Tags: Disaster Recovery

Author: Pete Benoit

Pete is an Enterprise Solutions Architect at 11:11, currently based out of Dallas with over 20 years of experience in the IT Services industry including time with hardware vendors, VARs and IaaS providers. His career began in the US Air Force as a Communication-Computer Systems Operator before joining the private sector and moving to Texas in 1996. Pete has a wide range of industry experience as a technician, support engineer and solutions engineer and excels at customer service. A proud graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Pete is a husband and father of two and enjoys golf and spending time with family and friends.

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