hello
everybody very happy that you can join
us today for this
brief webinar on doing
business continuing disaster recovery
through azure my name is gagan gupta
program manager in azure site recovery
i'm joined by itself who's also a
program manager in the azure bracket
team
and together we will talk to you about
pcdr strategies through azure
so with that let's begin
i want to start by talking about
about data protection is a shared
responsibility
between our customers and us
if you look at this table that is on
the right hand side you'll see
there is some text that is colored in
blue
and some text that's colored in black
blue
is the area of responsibility for the
vendor
in this case azure the black text
is the area responsibility for the
customer
so as an example if you look on the
extreme writing site
if if if you're getting software as a
service from a vendor
then the whole thing that the data
protection responsibility resides with
the vendor you don't have to do anything
as you start moving to the left
platform as a service or infrastructure
as a service
which is where most of our offerings
reside
or even on-prem which is where our
hybrid offerings reside
the responsibilities of our customers
they keep increasing
i want you to note that azure runs a
highly resilient
and highly secure and available platform
that still doesn't prevent
things going wrong with the data you can
see the data
is in black let me tell you what i mean
by going to the next slide
what if your workload that is running on
azure
gets hit by ransomware or
what if somebody accidentally deletes
some data that's crucial to your
business operations
or even worse you have a bad actor who
deliberately
decides to delete some data how do you
recover from that
we all know about all the the outages
that happen because they hit the
headlines
the question is can you recover
your mission critical business services
should an
outage were to happen whether it's
man-made disaster
or natural disaster the last point here
is some industries like healthcare
like financial services have got
legislated
norms laid down for business continuity
and disaster recovery
which by the way is usually shortened to
bcdr in case you're wondering
what's that acronym at the top of the
slide so bcdr stands for business
continuity and disaster recovery
and like i said many regions in the
world have got norms
that customers have to maintain
certain bcdr practices such that in case
the systems were to go down they can
recover from that
quickly so all of these things here that
are
that we are talking about on this slide
in case any one of these things were to
happen
then this actually falls in your domain
the customer's domain
of making sure you're able to recover
from that
within azure we offer you
two solutions to actually help you
achieve this
before i start talking about these two
i'm reminded of what our customers
sometimes tell us when we talk to them
as to why they're interested in
disaster recovery or backup solutions or
both
the reason is the questions that they
are
are struggling with is is my environment
secure
number one if something were to happen
to in
to my environment can i recover and how
quickly can i recover
so these are the questions that the
customers struggle with
and therefore we want to talk about
two solutions two offerings from azure
one is disaster recovery and the other
is
azure backup disaster recovery
is is is employed in those scenarios
as the name implies if there's a
disaster could be man-made or could be
natural disaster
for your mission critical services such
that you can quickly be back
up usually in a matter of minutes
and be running the same workload that
was originally running
on the primary site now it's running on
the secondary site
so the key part here is to be able to
recover quickly
and also to be able to
not break the bank in in having a dr
strategy in place
so i'll talk about that in a minute
backup comes into the picture if your
data is either corrupted because of some
accidental delete
or you want to archive the data
for weeks or months or years whatever
your requirement may be whatever the
regulatory compliance requirements may
be
then you definitely need azure backup
that's why we say you need
both offerings so let me
take a few minutes to talk about
disaster recovery the product in azure
that
does disaster recovery is called azure
site recovery
so azure site recovery offers
best-in-class disaster recovery
solutions to our customers
best in class means we do rpo recovery
point objective of the order of minutes
rpo means how much data you're willing
to lose
in case of a disaster rto is how quickly
you recover from a disaster
and i believe we are one of the few if
not the only vendor in the industry
to offer an sla backed rto which means
we offer a necessary back guarantee that
you'll be up and running
in in that stipulated time
the our disaster recovery solutions
income pass a wide variety of scenarios
so not only do we do azure cloud native
dr which means
cloud to cloud dr what that means is
your primary is running in cloud
and then you fail over into the cloud as
well we also have
coverage for hybrid dr where your
primary environment is is on-prem
and then you fail over into into the
cloud and then
fail back back to on-prem once
everything comes back to normal
i want to highlight one more point here
on this slide which is uh
we have customers today that are
literally running thousands of vms per
deployment
so this is an enterprise grade solution
that people can use having talked about
azure site recovery i want to talk a
little bit about
some of the enhancements that will be
coming up
over the next
few months some of these enhancements
by the time you see this video will
already be out
some others will come out within a month
a month and a half
one enhancement that we've been talking
about for for some time
is the ability to do disaster recovery
within a zone
see typically customers have been doing
disaster recovery from one region to
another
and that's great sometimes though
some customers have got the requirement
of i want to do disaster recovery within
a region
so you may remember a region has got
multiple zones
what if i want to fail over within a
zone and i don't
don't want to go all the way across from
the region
and there are some advantages to that
one is because the distance is
is quite less therefore
the latency is less the other advantage
is you can have actually the same
virtual network setup between primary
and secondary
so your work to set things up between
primary and secondary gets reduced a lot
sometimes some customers actually want
to maintain data within
a given geographical region just because
either for compliance reasons or that's
what they want to do
that also gets enabled through zona dr
another thing that's coming down the
pipe soon
will be a completely new
overall upgraded architecture stack for
our hybrid dr offering
and a lot of the points
that were causing some difficulties in
terms of ease of use have been
ironed out so we now have automatic
updates
for the on-prem appliance automatic
updates
for the agents the mobility agents that
are installed
on the on-prem machines we've simplified
the onboarding process
we have put in some enhancements to
provide high availability
of various components that are on-prem
and lastly we've got some new platform
support features so these are features
that are already in azure
and that we in azure site recovery are
now supporting so one that
has been an ask for some time is large
disk support so we can now handle
replication of
large disks up to 32 tb another one
uh very useful for
for those customers who run applications
like scp and the like
proximity placement group support ppg
third one is azure policy support
policy support refers to
automatically enabling dr on on a
machine
based on certain rules so these are some
of the enhancements that are coming down
with that i'm going to hand it to my
colleague with stuff to take you through
azure backup thank you
now let's take a look at how azure
backup can help you
protect yourself from various data law
scenarios like
your data assets being accidentally or
maliciously deleted
corrupted or even being held hostage by
a ransomware attacker
in addition to this azure backup can
also help you meet your compliance needs
which dictate you to retain your data
for long terms now let me show you how
azure backup can offer you this
best-in-class
data protection solution and it all
starts with native workload integration
and this is why you don't need to write
any scripts or set up any servers to
take your backups
or provision any storage to store your
backup data also since you don't need to
set up any infrastructure this is
extremely cost effective
now once you start taking your backups
backup stores
all your data in the highly reliable
azure blob storage service
also azure backup ensures that your data
is highly durable
and gives you various security and data
protection tools
that can help you level up the security
for your backed up data
another important thing to note over
here is that all your backup data is
stored in a different subscription
and a different fault domain which means
if anything were to happen to your data
sources
your backups are completely isolated and
completely unaffected
on top of this azure backup also
provides you various management tools
that make
management at scale very easy for you
these include various monitoring
alerting and reporting tools
you also get policy based management and
role based access control
to control who can perform what
operations
when it comes to your backups now with
all of this azure backup provides you
the ability to backup various different
types of workloads
which could be critical for your
businesses it ensures that you have the
highest levels of security and
resiliency for your backups
also it ensures that the management of
your backup
is not just simple but extremely cost
effective as well
and these form the three tenets that our
azure backup operates under
and we continue to strengthen and build
on these tenants let me show you a quick
glimpse of how
we are doing this and what are some of
the latest updates and announcements
we're adding two new workloads to the
list now
from now on you can also backup your
azure postgresql databases
and starting next month is the limited
preview for backup of
azure blob storage we also have some
great enhancements for some of the
existing workloads
we have some great new features that
make management simple and cost
effective
and one of these that stands out is the
azure backup center
now backup center is that single pane of
glass that you need to manage
all your backup assets and these could
be across different worlds
which in turn could be across different
subscriptions
different locations and sometimes even
different tenants
we also have some great new features
when that can help you
improve the security and resiliency of
your backups let's have a look at these
closely now recently we announced
support for encryption of your backup
data using customer managed case
which gives you much more control over
encryption of your backups we also
recently announced
private endpoints for backup which allow
you to run your backups and restores
without punching holes in your firewalls
and your network security landscape
a new addition to this is soft delete
now being available for all workloads
now soft delete has already been
available for azure vm backup and mass
based backups for a while
and this has been extended to database
backups like sql and sap hana backup now
and this gives you that added layer of
protection against deletion of your
backups
by retaining data for additional 14 days
free of cost
address backup further extends this soft
delete to
the storage account that houses the
protected file share
now coming to resiliency we have some
great new updates over here also
azure backup now also supports zone
redundant backup storage for your backup
data
this gives you the ability to improve
your resiliency without having to go out
of the region
and without any downtime another
very important addition over here is the
support for cross region restore
for your sql and sap hana database
backups
this improves the durability of your
backup data
and ensures that all of your data is
recoverable at
all times irrespective of the
availability of the primary region
let me show you quickly how easy it is
so i'm here in my walt in which is there
in my primary region and all i need to
do is go to my backup items
which brings up all of the instances
that are being protected
and when i switch over to my second
region tab you'll see in addition to the
azure virtual machines
line item that was always present we now
have a line item each for sql and sap
hana databases as well
let me just simply go and click on these
and to initiate my restore all i need to
do is
click on restore to secondary region
now i need to fill in all the details
another important thing to note over
here is that
you need to have a vault in your
secondary region and it should have a
sql server
registered to it and this is the sql
server to which your databases are going
to get restored to
so i have some of these details already
pre-filled for me
then i go ahead and choose a recovery
point and
the advanced configurations look good
let me
click ok and there we are
and as you can see now my restore has
been triggered
now i can go to the secondary region
world that i have
and go to my backup jobs
and there we are it's already underway
for more details on cross region restore
do check out the link at the bottom of
the slide
so we see how azure can help you meet
your bcdr objectives
using truly out of the box solutions
like azure backup and azure site
recovery
these solutions they're not just simple
to use but they're highly reliable
and extremely cost effective
cost effective because not just they
don't require any infrastructure
to be set up which makes it very easy to
get started but also in the long term
because you don't need to upgrade or
maintain any hardware or any software
for performing
disaster recovery or backups this brings
us to the end of the session
there are some great resources you might
want to check out we also have a related
session
on what's new in azure backup where we
talk about what is some of the
latest and the upcoming content in terms
of azure backup
also check out the vcdr landing page
that can give you more pointers on your
bcdr strategy
and of course ms learn to help you get
started with azure backup and azure site
recovery
so this was it from our end for now
until next time
have a good day and thank you for
watching