Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) ensure business continuity by minimizing downtime and interruption to our clients and employees in the event of server breakdown or other disaster. Disaster Recovery as a Service solutions also generally offer more than just data recovery security by additionally being able to replicate infrastructure and applications to help ensure full ontinuity of business operations.
In 21st century with emerging technologies i.e. mobile, social, artificial intelligence and IoT space, businesses are becoming more yielding and responsive, flexible and available. Due to that disaster striking also increases.
The Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) grab a lot of attention to maintain the business continuity, but customers still find it challenging or complicated. Many service providers offer DRaaS solution; it can be part of current setup, or an independent from an overall data protection plan, Generally this pulls focus away of IT people from their current datacenter expenditure and momentum. Such solutions add an further management or business complexities, and often leave businesses insecure that they can indeed recover if something goes terribly wrong.
In-case of critical situation of data loss, and the worry that surrounds it, can be easily avoided by taking or pairing your applications with a complete BaaS backup and recovery solution.
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is rapidly gaining its importance & popularity, and is offered by an increasing number of service providers. DRaaS is described as providing a remotely hosted disaster recovery service to protect business & data and their live applications. When choosing the best DRaaS strategy, DC10G can be helpful to examine the top five prime & top benefits to consider DRaaS.
Organisations who are having another site for disaster recovery they are very well aware about the additional cost and beyond the unavoidable investment of servers, storage, security, physical space, replication software and software licences for servers etc. Most of these additional costs are adequately eliminated by using DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) through a managed service provider. A DRaaS offering eliminates the need for the following expenses:
OAs mentioned in the point above; planning, designing, creating, maintaining a secondary DR site can be costly and complex as well. If all of above could be eliminated other than capital and recurring cost expenditure; lots of administration, upgrade requirements, licence renewals and annual maintenance contract could be eliminated as well.
DRaaS can be implemented within few hours or days depending upon servers or data at primary site as compare to building a secondary site which might take months. It will further reduce the complexity if customer goes with single service provider.
DRaaS solutions work with dissimilar systems so that organisations can safeguard servers across different hypervisors and replicate data between dissimilar storage systems. These DRaaS solutions are application, hardware & hypervisor independent.
DC10G provides Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to their own disaster recovery site that is why DRaaS is much easier and more affordable with us. We can provide a comprehensive and competitive solution to our customers