Disaster recovery as service (DRaaS) is a solution that allows organizations to avoid costly outages by replicating and hosting workloads in a third-party facility. It offers several benefits, including improved RTOs and shortened recovery-time objectives.
Downtime costs companies revenue, reputation and can lead to industry-specific compliance fines. Implementing a fully-tested disaster recovery plan can be difficult for lean IT teams.
Cost-effectiveness
The disaster recovery-as-a-service market is expected to grow significantly over the analysis period due to its cost-effectiveness and greater flexibility. It offers an off-site backup for critical business infrastructure and is used to protect against natural disasters, power outages, data breaches, cyberattacks and more. In addition, the increasing adoption of work from home culture during the pandemic has driven demand for these services.
Historically, building and maintaining redundant sites has been expensive. However, cloud DR solutions are now available that can reduce these costs and improve RPOs and RTOs. These solutions feature WAN-optimized replication and global data deduplication to reduce storage and network costs.
Other costs to consider include the cost of hardware, networking and data transfer to and from the DR site. These costs can be reduced by using a hybrid solution that includes both on-premises and cloud deployment options. Another way to lower costs is by leveraging pilot light DR, which is ideal for applications that can be run with reduced functionality during a crisis and converted to full functionality once the crisis is over.
Scalability
As businesses grow, they need scalable infrastructure to meet evolving business demands. Disaster recovery as a service allows organizations to scale their disaster recovery solutions up or down as needed, which reduces cost and increases flexibility. It also eliminates the need to invest in expensive equipment that may be obsolete in a few years.
The scalability of disaster recovery as a service also helps to reduce downtime and ensures business continuity. It enables businesses to rapidly recover applications and data from a third-party provider’s infrastructure in the event of a disaster. This process is much faster than traditional disaster recovery methods and significantly reduces the impact on critical business processes.
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offers a more cost-effective way to protect against ransomware, data breaches, and hardware failures. It can help businesses avoid the upfront costs of constructing secondary data centers and save on energy and cooling expenses. It also reduces the risk of having to maintain duplicate storage hardware.
Flexibility
Disaster recovery as a service offers businesses the ability to replicate all their data to a third-party location. This enables business continuity in the event of an IT outage or natural disaster. In addition, it helps reduce downtime and shortens RPOs. It is a popular choice for enterprises that require reliability of their DR infrastructure or lack the resources to manage it in-house.
In a DRaaS deployment, business-critical data, applications, and systems are replicated to a vendor’s cloud environment. The replication process can be synchronous or asynchronous. It is also possible to scale up or down as needed. The solution also provides cost-optimized cloud data mobility and resilient ransomware protection.
Moreover, hybrid disaster recovery capabilities provide MSPs with an easy-to-deploy single pane of glass view that streamlines their DRaaS delivery to clients. This new capability enables them to meet the increasing demand for shorter RTOs and RPOs and ensure compliance, agility, and end-to-end security. This allows MSPs to increase revenue by offering their DRaaS services with faster recovery times and lower costs.
Security
Having a disaster recovery plan is crucial to the success of any business. This plan is designed to protect the organization from unforeseen threats that could interrupt operations and cause data loss. This can include natural disasters like a flood or human-caused incidents such as cyberattacks.
While a disaster recovery plan can be expensive, it is an essential part of your business continuity strategy. CynergisTek can help you evaluate your risk, develop a comprehensive plan, and test your system to ensure that it works correctly.
A disaster recovery plan must be based on the company’s business requirements, including recovery time objectives and backup schedules. A DRaaS solution can help you meet these requirements. It also offers benefits such as cloud air-gapped backups and immutability. These capabilities can make the difference between a costly disruption and a minor inconvenience. You can choose from either a managed or self-managed DRaaS model. If you choose a managed DRaaS option, the third-party provider takes on responsibility for all aspects of your disaster recovery.