DECA Financial Services Reduces DR Costs by More Than 50%

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DECA Financial Services, LLC, a nationally licensed accounts receivable management company, relies on their mission-critical call center application to keep business going each day. They needed a way to guarantee that their application would recover quickly so business could keep moving forward, no matter what. In this presentation, Bluelock CTO Pat O’Day and DECA Financial Services CIO Kevin Schoenrock review the process DECA Financial went through evaluating their DR plan, quoting both cloud-based and traditional options and why they ultimately felt the decision to invest in Recovery-as-a-Service was “a no-brainer”. LEARN WHY DECA FINANCIAL IS: - Leveraging RaaS to scale their protection with their growing business - Eliminating their reliability and recovery concerns with confidence - Meeting and exceeding compliance requirements in their RaaS environment http://www.bluelock.com/cloud-services/raas/

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Speakers

Pat O’Day Chief Technology Officer,

Bluelock (@ODayP)

Kevin Schoenrock Chief Information Officer DECA Financial Services

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•  Why DR was Important to DECA

•  How RaaS Saved DECA Over 50%

•  How Bluelock Fits in the Picture

•  What the Solution Looks Like

DECA Financial Services Reduces DR Costs

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WHY DR IS IMPORTANT TO DECA FINANCIAL SERVICES

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About DECA Financial Services

•  Nationally licensed accounts receivable management company

•  Small IT team responsible for success •  Already hosts production in the cloud,

with Bluelock •  Required the upmost security and

compliance from their cloud and DR solutions

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Why Disaster Recovery?

•  Core application needed to be protected for mission-critical call center application to keep business running

•  Data is critical to business because it’s how we make our money

•  The data is sensitive, we need to comply with regulations and with our clients so we can be trusted

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DECA Financial

•  Goals –  Protect mission-critical applications –  Reduce downtime to 24 hours or less

•  Critical Applications –  Call center and databases –  Responsible for generating core business revenue

•  Risk –  Power, weather, and systems/network issues can

cause prolonged downtime

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Evaluating Solutions

Traditional Colocation for a full build-out datacenter

Recovery-as-a-Service with current cloud provider

VS.

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WHY RECOVERY-AS-A-SERVICE?

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Cost Comparison

•  Traditional Colocation: $9,400/mo ~ $250,000 total •  Over 36 months = ~7,000/mo •  Plus, management: $1,400/mo •  Plus, colocation space: $1,000/mo

•  Recovery-as-a-Service: $4,000/mo •  ~$4,000/month

•  Savings: –  $5,400/month –  $194,400 over 36 months!

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But Wait, There’s More…

•  Met client and regulatory core requirements •  Recovery time objective of less than 24 hours •  Also achieved:

– Geographic protection – Dynamic and scalable – High-touch service –  24x7x365

•  And had an extra $5,400/mo

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Other Things to Consider

•  Active production firewall at the DR site to handle the networking failover

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Control vs. Cost

•  Traditional thinking was that RaaS for DR gave up control

•  Found that RaaS was better than traditional control –  Don’t have to manage or worry about it. Can

forget about it until it’s needed. That’s worth every penny.

•  Can always rely on my extended Bluelock team to declare or help when needed

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WHY BLUELOCK?

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Compliance and Confidence

•  Need to comply with all federal regulations

•  With RaaS, we don’t have to worry – we trust Bluelock

•  Huge selling point to future clients when we can guarantee a 4-hour full uptime

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Indy or Vegas?

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DECA IN THE CLOUD: ARCHITECTURE

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Picking the Right RTO

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Solution: Bluelock RaaS 4504 VDC –  Data is replicated in near real-time to Bluelock

Vegas over a private network –  Application recovery time estimated to be <1 hour

Call Center Applications

Vegas

DECA Financial

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HQ Call Center

Continuous Data Protection

Internet VPN

tw telecom Metro Ethernet

Indy Vegas

Establish Connection

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FAILOVER PROCESS During an Outage

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HQ Call Center

Continuous Data Protection

Internet VPN

tw telecom Metro Ethernet

Indy Vegas

Failover Process

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FAILBACK PROCESS After an Outage

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HQ Call Center

Continuous Data Protection

Internet VPN

tw telecom Metro Ethernet

Indy Vegas

Failback Process

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RE-ENABLE PROTECTION

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HQ Call Center

Continuous Data Protection

Re-enable Protection

Internet VPN

tw telecom Metro Ethernet

Indy Vegas

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What’s Next?

•  Additional testing •  New network designs •  Cloud strategy moving forward •  New ideas

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And the Winner Is…

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