Benefits of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

If you missed it, I posted recently on Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for Optimal Failover. When Zetta conducted a survey of 300 IT professionals from small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), they discovered 37% of SMBs are using the cloud as part of their disaster recovery solution, up 11% over last year.

TalkinCloud.com published the full results which showed:

·         57% of the SMBs who are planning to add new disaster recovery in the next 12 months plan to leverage cloud-based disaster recovery solutions.

·         84% confirmed several days of downtime in IT would cause moderate to catastrophic costs and losses.

·         33% claimed they rarely test their disaster recovery plan.

·         13% admitted their company doesn’t have a current technical disaster recovery plan in place.

What Is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)?

DRaaS is the replication and hosting of virtual or physical services by a third-party. In the event of a catastrophe, they provide failover.

While this is quickly becoming a popular, strategic offering with many options available to facilitate DRaaS solutions, keep in mind you must first know how your business operates.

What Do You Need to Know about DRaaS Solutions?

DRaaS solutions expect you to capture the tribal knowledge essential in most IT departments. You must have a plan in place to associate service groups with the services your enterprise delivers.

The cost and effort of doing this are often forgotten by organizations in the mitigation process. Yet, success depends on this being completed properly.

In the post I mentioned at the start of this blog, I discuss using DRaaS for optimal failover, but I caution organizations about the different ways various hosting providers approach DRaaS. Naturally, they have specific goals and offerings based on their own line of products.

As industry standards take form, the process will soon become smoother and easier. An experienced cloud computing consulting partner can be a huge resource for building the best DRaaS solution based on your organization’s specific needs.