Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) enables businesses to test and recover from any disaster, safeguarding critical business data, reducing risk, and quickly restoring operations. In the event of a significant IT failure, your servers, applications, and data can be brought online rapidly, allowing your business to continue operating with minimum disruption. 

Using DRaaS to Prepare for a Disaster

Disaster recovery planning is critical to business continuity. Many disasters that have the potential to wreak havoc on an IT organization have become more frequent in recent years: 

• Natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and earthquakes
• Equipment failures and power outages
• Cyberattacks 

 True DRaaS mirrors a complete infrastructure in fail-safe mode on virtual servers, including compute, storage, and networking functions. An organization can continue to run applications—it just runs them from the service provider’s cloud or hybrid cloud environment instead of from the disaster-affected physical servers. This means recovery time after a disaster can be much faster. Once the physical servers are recovered or replaced, the processing and data are migrated back onto them. Customers may experience higher latency when their applications are running from the cloud instead of from an on-site server, but the total business cost of downtime can be very high, so it’s imperative that the business can get back up and running.

Key Benefits of Disaster Recovery as a Service 

1. Flexibility and reduced downtime. Cloud-based solutions offer your organization the power to run off the cloud or restore your crucial data and systems to any location. They help you get these systems back online much quicker during an IT disaster, minimizing the manual processes of traditional recovery methods.
2. Reliability. Cloud-based solutions allow for frequent and non-disruptive testing of IT disaster recovery efforts. This allows organizations to test their recovery point objective and recovery time objective highly accurately, which strengthens your disaster recovery plan.
3. Simplification and efficiency. You can quickly deploy cloud-based disaster recovery to all locations across an organization. The architecture works well with your broader business continuity plan, allowing users remote access to necessary systems. A cloud model offers consistency and simplified management and support.
4. Ease of deployment. With cloud-based solutions, entities can leverage provider expertise and specialized knowledge. They can get started without significant investments in hardware, software, or a secondary site and without much training or adding headcount.
5. Cost-effectiveness. Organizations using cloud-based disaster recovery solutions can take advantage of the common pay-as-you-grow model, aligning costs with the size and complexity of your IT disaster recovery needs.  

As organizations continue to explore and embrace the cloud as an alternate means for delivering IT services, cloud-based disaster recovery strategies are becoming more mature, and the benefits they offer are increasing. Contact the IT experts at Choice Solutions to learn how we can tailor our services to your unique business needs.