DRinthecloud

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
Join us as we ask industry experts about the importance of DR and business continuity
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Julie Nyenkamp
Hey! How do I train people to respond to disasters?
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Gleb Otochkin
I would rephrase the question to "How I would prepare for disaster". In my opinion you need to "train" processes and procedures to prepare for disaster. It would be better to have proper procedures and automation in place to minimize any human mistakes.
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Gleb Otochkin
And cloud vendors has some automation alreay in place to help you in case of disaster. Like AWS RDS has different availability zones for your databases.
Jon Lewis ☕
Hey there! Which disasters are we guarding against? What am I preparing for?
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Gleb Otochkin
I would say we could say about several different levels of disaster. It could be a local in your data center, regional or geographic.
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Gleb Otochkin
As example the hurricane Sandy some time ago put a lot of local data centers in NYC to a halt. It would be a perfect local disaster.
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Jon Lewis ☕
So what do I need to do to prepare?
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Gleb Otochkin
You just need to have a DR plans, site and procedures in place to switch over. Sounds really simple right? ;)
Nadine Hamilton
What alternatives are available for hosting standby databases for me if I don’t have a DR site and I don’t want to deal with the cost or complexity of managing a remote data center?
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Gleb Otochkin
You can setup your DR database using one of the available publiuc cloud offerings. Depending from your rdbms vendor you have choice between the major vendors like AWS, Azure, GCP or Oracle.
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Gleb Otochkin
And of course I would use Azure having MS SQL shop in my house and maybe choosing between AWS and GCP having MySQL.
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Jon Lewis ☕
Is there any reason that one public cloud vendor is better than another? Or is it purely based on preference and our existing RDBMS? @Nadinehamilton0
Patrick Watza
Gleb - what benefits does cloud DR offer over traditional, remote DCs?
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Gleb Otochkin
In first, they are available right now for you and for anybody else when you need to build your new data center. And, In my opinion, they have better availability and better procedures to keep them alive.
Krista Wheatley
Oracle DR Planning
http://www.oracle.co...

GCP DR Planning
https://cloud.google...

AWS DR Planning
https://aws.amazon.c...

Azure DR Planning
https://azure.micros...
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Krista Wheatley
Our time is up, thank you for joining us, if you would like to discuss your DR strategy further or have any questions on this topic or others, please reach out directly to Gleb at Otochkin@pythian.com. We have also provided some links to our cloud partners f
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Krista Wheatley
Welcome to our crowdchat where we will talk about Disaster recovery with Gleb Otochkin. This is a very important topic and we would like to hear your thoughts and learn about best practices.
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Krista Wheatley
Disaster recovery (DR) is defined as a subset of business continuity and involves a set of policies, tools and procedures to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster.
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Krista Wheatley
Does your business have a plan in place for DR in the Cloud? Exactly how prepared are you?