deca financial services reduces dr costs by more than 50%

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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


WHY DR IS IMPORTANT TO DECA FINANCIAL SERVICES


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


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



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


Evaluating Solutions

Traditional Colocation for a full build-out datacenter

Recovery-as-a-Service with current cloud provider

VS.


WHY RECOVERY-AS-A-SERVICE?


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!


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


Other Things to Consider

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


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


WHY BLUELOCK?


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


Indy or Vegas?


DECA IN THE CLOUD: ARCHITECTURE


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


HQ Call Center

Continuous Data Protection

Internet VPN

tw telecom Metro Ethernet

Indy Vegas

Establish Connection


FAILOVER PROCESS During an Outage


HQ Call Center


Internet VPN


Indy Vegas

Failover Process


FAILBACK PROCESS After an Outage


HQ Call Center


Internet VPN


Indy Vegas

Failback Process


RE-ENABLE PROTECTION


HQ Call Center


Re-enable Protection

Internet VPN


Indy Vegas


What’s Next?

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



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