PHD Virtual Automating Disaster Recovery Testing to Ensure Application Recovery

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• #3: Lets get started by helping you understand a little more about our company…PHD Virtual provides the absolute best value in backup & disaster recovery assurance virtual and cloud environments.We help customers dramatically reduce the costs and risk of recovery within SLAsMore than 6,000 customers worldwide rely on our products (our customers are a who’s who among the Fortune 500 and we serve 1000s of mid-market companies too)Thanks to the amazing reception we have had from customers we have had 13 consecutive quarters of record revenue growth – This makes us one of the fastest growing software companies around the globeAnd, as you can imagine, our company has been recognized as standing out from our peers by receiving numerous awards as well as a direct investment by Citrix
• #4: Have you ever sat through a presentation and struggled to understand how that company is different from competitive alternatives? We believe its very important that we help you understand what sets PHD Virtual apart.Our approach for delivering unmatched value can be summed up in 3 key differentiators:We deliver a comprehensive data protection, disaster recovery assurance solution - one that integrates backup, replication, DR orchestration and recovery. And, you’ll find these products are easy to use, scalable and deliver value fast - often in minutesWe are the only company that provides disaster recovery assurance – which means we can help you continuously prove that your data, applications and business services will recover within SLAsOur products will reduce your DR costs because we automate complex resource intensive process – And, our products are priced at a fraction of the cost of competitive alternatives – great technology shouldn’t be so expensiveIts why our customers represent love us… (read quote)
• #5: While information backup is now a given for many organizations, recovery of data, from granular recovery of an email through full site restoration, is still a risky proposition for most. That’s because all too often recovery or( failover and failback) doesn’t perform as expected--especially during an outage when it is needed most. The effects of recovery failures can be staggering and they have significant business impact. In fact, in a recent study by Analyst firm DCIG indicates that:Over 50% of companies experience recovery problems that result in:Lost revenueDelayed business activitySignificant impacts on IT personnelMissed SLAsCompliance penaltiesEtcAll of which negatively impact a companies performance and financial outlayBottom line: The business effects of recovery problems are undeniable and affect almost everyone
• #6: With those business effects in mind, First, lets focus on what we need to protect and recover..A critical success factor to data protection and recovery at scale is the ability to effectively recover across the full continuum…Our customers need to recover granular items such as an a file/folder or an email…but they also need to recover:Application objectsVirtual disksVirtual machinesApplicationsBusiness servicesOr even a full siteAre these all items you need to protect and recover?Our customers tell us that there are specific challenges that make successful data protection and recovery across this continuum difficult to achieve
• #7: Lets explore some of these challenges and I’ll describe how PHD Virtual minimizes them:If a critical application running on VMware went down, how do you know you can get it up and running again – especially when most companies test so infrequently? PHD fully automates DR testing which enables you to test as frequently as you want – and in a way that is non-disruptive to normal business operationsIts not just about getting back up and running – its really about recovery within SLAs (RTO/RPO limits). PHD immediately detects and alerts you of any SLA deviations – providing continuous assurance SLAs will be achievedTraditional manual approaches to DR testing requires too many IT personnel who already have full plates – another reason why DR testing being done infrequently. PHD automates these these tasks such as DR orchestration and recoveryIn some industries auditors demand proof that DR plans will achieve required recovery point and recovery time objectives – PHD delivers complete compliance reportingMost companies use several products from multiple vendors that don’t work well together. PHD offers a complete unified Recovery Management solution for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery.Much too often, organizations deal with DR when they are in the midst of an outage or disaster – PHD enables companies to be far more proactive and prepared – as a result, risk is reducedFinally, According to Gartner – Each DR tests on average cost between $30-$40k. PHD enables companies to dramatically cut those costs…Lets explore how. We achieve this…
• #8: With PHD Virtual’s recent entrance into cloud storage and now with he acquisition of VirtualSharp, we are the leader for Backup and DR solutions for virtual and cloud environments, spanning backup, replication, DR testing and recovery assurance. And, with both sets of solutions, we are transforming recovery… Let me explain how The distinction between VM backup and DR is blurring with the overlapping capabilities that products deliver todayThe 4 major IT processes associated with assuring recovery, they are:BackupReplicationRecovery testing andRecovery assuranceAccording to Dave Simpson, Senior Storage Analyst at the 451 Group:“Just like backup alone is worthless without the ability to recover data, disaster recover (DR) implementations are marginalized without the ability to guarantee, or assure, that DR will take place successfully when needed,” “Combining PHD Virtual’s backup, recovery and replication with VirtualSharp’s disaster recovery assurance ensure end-to-end data protection and compliance at significantly lower cost than existing approaches.”Backup without recovery is worthless – and this is where PHD Virtual, though its Backup products have been world-class.(click 1) We provide the absolute best value when protecting VM data, and we continue to ensure that our recovery methods are flexible and fast, regardless of whether your data is local, remote, or in the cloud. In the case of DR – it is also worthless unless you absolutely – positively know that you can recover from a disaster – within the SLAs you have established.In order to ensure the business can recover it must frequently and effectively test their DR - something we call Disaster Recovery Assurance (Disaster recovery assurance provides IT execs with 100% ironclad assurance recovery will occur within stated RPOs and RTOs)However, many companies don't test fully or frequently enough because it traditionally has been too complex, resource intensive and expensive. Therefore, they do not have ironclad assurance their systems will recover and are assuming unacceptable business risk – Risk that most regulations prohibit and most companies cannot endure.With the acquisition of VirtualSharp, (click 2) PHD’s ReliableDR automates the DR process (testing and failover) dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of testing DR, enabling businesses to certify they will recover and within SLAs (RPOs and RTOs) – and certifies this to prove compliance. 
• #11: Here is a screen shot of ReliableDR’s operator dashboard:ReliableDR records all its activity. Each DR exercise is reported in a line with a traffic light. Green means the exercise was successful. Yellow means the test was successful but the recovery time was not met (click), so RTO misses can be caught at a glance. (click) Red means recovery failure and therefore a compliance threat. (click) ReliableDR can exercise as few or as many exercises as required, and each exercise can be from one VM to many – there is no limit to how big the DR exercises can be. Each of the exercises can be double-clicked to see a condensed trace of the exercise, and a detailed trace is also available for, audit and compliance purposes. Identifying the component that fails happens in a a matter of seconds. When there is a yellow or a red condition, ReliableDR issues an SNMP trap as well as an email to the DR administrator.
• #12: … the most important use cases of ReliableDR.
• #15: Lastly, please be aware of our summer promotion. All you have to do is download any PHD Virtual software trial, and you will automatically be enrolled in our drawing to win PHD Virtual software and support free for 1 year. The summer is almost over, so please take advantage of this opportunity before it is too late.