Disaster Recovery as a Service(DRaaS) Offerings

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings vary from provider to provider in terms of coverage, RPO and RTO.

DRaaS Features

When considering a DRaaS solution, keep these seven must-have features and capabilities in mind:
1 Multi-platform support — Make sure that all of your physical, virtual and cloud-hosted production servers can be protected. If you don’t already have a presence in the cloud, the provider should help migrate to the cloud.
2 Multi-cloud support — You should be able to use more than one cloud service or platform concurrently to mitigate the risk of your sole cloud service suffering a major outage. This also frees you to switch from one cloud service vendor to another in the future.
3 Recovery into the cloud – Rather than just having a recoverable backup image in the cloud, you want to be able to actually switch operations to your cloud backup servers should a disaster occur.
4. Flexible licensing — Your technology provider should offer DR with
subscription based, service-oriented licensing and billing options.
5 Real-time replication — True real-time replication captures changes as they happen, eliminating the risk of losing critical data. All other solutions have windows of varying sizes where data/changes will be lost if an outage occurs.
6 Scalability— Your DRaaS solution should be able to grow as you grow, whether you are a small business with just a few servers or your datacenter is expanding to thousands of physical and virtual machines.
7 Reporting and administration— You should be able to participate in
monitoring your solution if desired and frequent, detailed reporting should be available regarding your level of protection and readiness to failover.