Any situation which causes extreme loss or hardship can be loosely defined as a disaster. For a company this could mean be almost any number extremely difficult situations such as a natural disaster, or even a breach in security or a virus which destroys all the data. If a company had a disaster recovery plan in the past it was usually haphazard and may have ignored the obvious dangers. Some companies might have duplicated data and stored it nearby. Some companies had back up equipment for emergency situations. This was costly and often a waste of equipment which basically had no other purpose except to prepare for the unthinkable. While these measures seem inefficient they were almost the only alternative until Disaster Recovery as a Service – DRaaS was developed and implemented.
Preparing a disaster plan was often overlooked or such measures as were taken were a tremendous drain on available resources. Disaster Recovery as a Service has permitted an entirely new approach to preparedness and recovery from natural or man-made situations. This approach to preparedness and recovery has made preparing for the worst more economical and effective than formerly possible. Rather than relying on their own resources which may or may not be safe from a disaster, the service provides as much support as necessary in the case of a major failure or disaster and ensures that information and services are up and running as soon as possible after an event of a catastrophic nature.
A company which has all their client files, all their invoice information stored on the computer and also has backups made faithfully and stored at the same location is vulnerable to any situation which might physically destroy the building and the main computers and data. Although arrangements for equipment might be made easily the data may well be irretrievable. Backups are useless if they are also vulnerable to the same conditions that destroyed the primary hardware and data.
With the DRaaS model however, data may well be stored hundreds or thousands of miles distant and as close as an internet connection to being restored. These services are usually provided on a monthly fee basis which his why it is called a service. Rather than coming in after the fact and trying pick up the pieces a preparedness plan is devised and the service provides what is needed or asked for when the service is initiated.
Hardware formerly stored somewhere and completely unused might be temporarily replaced by a service when brings temporary hardware to use in case of emergency. The company could actually be back up in running in as little as hours while new equipment was ordered and brought in. This saves the expense of unused hardware which has no use but to prepare for what hopefully will not happen.
There are companies which provide the help in planning disaster recovery and also providing the services if the time arises that they may be needed. This is a regular fixed rate which almost any business can plan for, unlike catastrophic expenses. Plans could include a service which automatically backs up data and stores it in a secure and environmentally controlled location. While the service is also one no one wants to have to call in, having it can help a company recover from the unthinkable.
At one time disaster plans were basically poorly thought out bits and pieces which may or may not have worked in the event they were needed. Now, the DR plans are well structured and as minimal or complete as a business feels they may need. Plans created and executed by experts are almost always the most likely to be effective.
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- Priority fueling in times of crisis and shortage.
- A 7,000-square-foot fenced-in satellite farm enclosure with eight large concrete satellite dish antenna pads.
- Emergency backup power via the administration-area 650 kW Cummins generator.
- Direct cross-connects to data PODs to support equipment.
- Mobile Asset Pads (MAPs) as Secure Disaster Recovery pads for mobile communications, satcom and continuity of operations for event-driven responses and training/exercising.
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- Manage ALL virtual, physical, and cloud-based workloads from a single console
- Achieve disaster recovery of any IT service and related applications and data within seconds and minutes
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- Recovery times and recovery points of minutes and seconds
- Orchestration for multi-tier applications, with boot order and script points
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- Carbonite professional services support from initial deployment to testing to failover and failback
- Support for exotic platforms like iSeries and AIX with our Carbonite Disaster Recovery offering
Nxtgen provide the biggest advantage for your digital business – the power to scale up without owning an IT infrastructure, with our infinitely scalable datacenter.
- Enlist disaster recovery services that are fully cloud-ready
- Swift Data backup and recovery through near synchronous replication
- Cloud migration and disaster recovery for multi-tier applications, not just virtual machines
StorageCraft provides unmatched data management, storage and protection solutions for the next-generation hybrid data center, be it on-premises or in the cloud.
- Security and Availability
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INAP helps people build and manage the world’s best performing IT infrastructure. Our global footprint of data centers and solutions that blend colocation, managed hosting, cloud and network services delivers a seamless end-user experience with the lowest latency every time.
- Secure Seeding
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- Managed Failover Test
- White Glove Service and Onboarding
Manage risk and maintain business continuity with Disaster Recovery as a Service from IBM. Minimize the impact of disruption and recover within minutes of an outage with Disaster Recovery Services from IBM. Our team of DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) experts is here to help you transform your IT recovery management.
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Advanced cost-effective full featured SAN, hyper-converged, Cloud computing solutions and Virtualization services by the innovator of iSCSI technology.
- A veteran in Data Backup (on-premises & cloud), Storage (on-premises & cloud) & Disaster Recovery services with 20 years of experience
- With Data centers around the globe
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Datto protects essential business data for tens of thousands of the world’s fastest growing companies, delivering uninterrupted access to data on site, in transit, and in the cloud.
- Downtime is Common
- (Down) Time is Money
- Planning Ahead
- Disastrous Situations
- Recovery is Painful
Webair is a leading Cloud and Managed Infrastructure solutions provider offering fully managed solutions, so you can focus on your business.
- Pre-planned, pre-configured and customized per deployment
- Recovery sites located in New York, Los Angeles, Montrèal, and Amsterdam as well as Microsoft Azure regions
- Compatibility with VMware, Hyper-V, IBM platforms, physical servers, Azure and AWS
- Full ownership and accountability for the entire disaster recovery process including failover, failback and testing
Druva Cloud Platform unifies data protection, governance and intelligence for business critical data. Over 4,000 enterprises trust Druva to protect and manage more than 50PB of data worldwide.
- Workloads on-premises or in the cloud are backed up directly to Druva’s cloud.
- VMs are converted to AWS EBS snapshots that are kept-at-the ready in the customer’s AWS VPC for immediate spin-up of AWS EC2 instances at the time of failover
- One-click recovery and automated runbook execution eliminate recovery complexities
- Recover on-premises (failback), or in the Cloud (failover) across any AWS region / account
- No hardware, minimal administration, or the need for a managed DR site!
Acronis Disaster Recovery Cloud is an easy to use, turn-key, self-service solution that is built on top of Acronis Backup Cloud. You can protect your customers’ workloads by instantly spinning up IT systems in the managed cloud recovery site and recover them to any similar or dissimilar hardware.
- Add DR functionality to Acronis Backup Cloud
- Minimize complexity with a SaaS solution
- Operate efficiently with made-for-SP product
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