Government’s Blueprints for Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Under longstanding federal data center consolidation and cloud-first initiatives, agencies are getting fewer dollars to pour into aging data centers. So cloud becomes a more compelling option for a growing number of applications, both enterprise and those deployed for public consumption. The load balancing qualities, scalability and cost predictability of cloud options make cloud-first a natural option.

The challenge is using multiple clouds – private and public multitenant – and multiple applications securely, and with assured continuity and the ability to recover and recall data when the agency requires.

Commvault has developed what it describes as cloud middleware that provides data management, disaster recovery, extraction and other services that support security and performance under service level agreements. Together these services provide a high-assurance way to extend the federal enterprise to the cloud under a deepening list of use cases.

Listen to this discussion with Brian Brockway, chief technology officer at Commvault, and Dan Kasun, senior manager of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, and moderated by Federal News Radio’s Tom Temin. It will answer some key questions about brokered, high security, high reliability deployment to the cloud, including:

• Why cloud is a disaster recovery game changer
• How to tackle the cloud-first mandate with full data protection
• How to assure your agency can get its data back out of a cloud
• Strategies for simultaneous, multiple-cloud deployments
• Remedies for when something goes wrong in the cloud

Moderator

Tom Temin, Federal News Radio

Tom Temin has been the host of the Federal Drive since 2006. Tom has been reporting on and providing insight to technology markets for more than 30 years.  Prior to joining Federal News Radio, Tom was a long-serving editor-in-chief of Government Computer News and Washington Technology magazines. Tom also contributes a regular column on government information technology.

Guests

Brian Brockway, Chief Technology Officer, Commvault

As Global CTO, Brian helps define and manage the overall Commvault product and solution strategy along with managing teams of product managers who own and shape the key use-cases, product roadmaps, pricing programs and customer value, based on pragmatic, outcome-oriented results. His team sits at the intersection of Commvault’s product development teams, technical service teams, strategic alliances and customer relations groups.  The CTO product teams meet regularly with customers and partners to understand their challenges and align the Commvault product vision to meet the next set of business objectives customers are reaching to achieve; this is at the heart of the Commvault philosophy where our core value is realized in the success of our customers.

Brian has worked at Commvault for over 12 years, serving in the CTO leadership role for the last two years after managing the product management group for the prior 8 years.  He is a frequent speaker at Industry events on a wide range of topics and best-practice experiences.  He is an active technologist with the development teams where he holds over 20 patents from the large portfolio Commvault maintains.  Before Commvault, Brian held numerous positions in the industry, including Strategic Marketing and Director of Analyst Relations at Interwoven, Vice President of Software Research at SoundView Technology Group, and Senior Consultant at Gartner Consulting. Brian earned his undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo. He graduated with distinction from the Masters of Business Administration program at NYU, Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Dan Kasun, Senior Manager, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services

Dan Kasun is Sr. Manager for Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector Partners.  Mr. Kasun is responsible for building and supporting the Public Sector partner channel for AWS in the United States.  This includes the establishment of programs for and direct engagement with system integrators, solution providers, independent software vendors and value added resellers.  The depth and breadth of this partner ecosystem is critical to enabling government and education customers to leverage AWS cloud solutions successfully.

Mr. Kasun is a technology industry veteran with over twenty years of experience working with organizations of all sizes, from small companies to large enterprises, in a variety of industries (Financial Services, Healthcare, Government, and Education) – and joined Amazon Web Services in September of 2014.  Prior to joining Amazon, he was with Microsoft Corporation for over 18 years, and he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University.

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