WHAT IS DISASTER RECOVERY AS A SERVICE?

(DRaaS)

DISASTER RECOVERY AS A SERVICE (DRaaS)

1. The replication and hosting of physical and virtual servers to a second location, either to a second appliance or the cloud, which is usually located in a distant second site. In the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe, those replicated systems and data can be booted and accessed.

Definition:

SO, HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM TRADITIONAL DISASTER RECOVERY?

You don’t need to build or manage a secondary site.

No extra I.T. resources needed to manage or test.

Lower disaster recovery costs.

DISASTER RECOVERY AS A SERVICE MEANS

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Recovered & Virtualized

...but users can continue to work with recovered apps virtualized from the appliance or within the cloud.

Servers and applications are down...

HOW DRaaS WORKS

NoDowntime

Hardware Failure or Disaster Occurs

Step 1

Step 2

Results

Push-button failover

SO, HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM USING

BACKUP AS DISASTER RECOVERY?

BACKUP AS DISASTER RECOVERY:

You’re in a fix first, run later mode.

With DRaaS:You run first, fix later.

BACKUP AS DR DRaaS

When micro and macro disasters occur, this is how your employees and customers feel:

TECHNICAL DEEP DIVEBackup as DR vs DRaaS

BACKUP

Backup Appliance

RESTORE

BACKUP & RESTORE “Restore now, run later”

BACKUP

Backup Appliance

REPLICATE

Run

Run

Cloud orSecondary Appliance

Secondary HardwareOr Site

Hours to Days before a

system runs again

Minutes before system runs

again

DRAAS “Run now, restore later”

Run

BACKUP AS DR VS. DRaaS

Disaster Recovery as a Service brings compute resources to where your backup data resides (either on the backup appliance or cloud), allowing you to virtualize and spin up applications in minutes.

KEY TAKEAWAY:

Eradicate Downtime At a price that will make your CFO smile

BENEFITS OF DRaaS

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