Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) comprises a range of processes run by a vendor to enable an organisation to iterate and implement a disaster recovery plan.
If bosses don’t have to worry about facing an IT disaster on an everyday basis, safeguards should still be in place in case the worst should happen. Having a reliable disaster recovery service could be a life-saver for your business, but it’s important that you choose the right one.
Solutions chosen will ultimately depend upon a firm’s recovery point objective (RPO), recovery time objective (RTO) and what can be done to minimise the time from disaster striking to reaching the RTO.
Disaster is, of course, a relative term; websites that do not require regular updating will be far more resilient to major disruption than a huge company for which downtime of any length can translate into catastrophic sums of money being lost.
Below we consider some key points bosses should bear in mind before choosing the provider that’s best for business.
Why you need DRaaS
DRaaS can be hugely useful for small- and medium-sized businesses that may lack the technical and practical ability to provision, configure and test-run an effective disaster recovery plan. Relying on an external provider also means firms can cut out having to invest and maintain their own disaster recovery systems.
When cloud-based, the disaster recovery avoids the need for in-house IT teams. This can be a financially attractive option too – the large part of providers will charge a flat fee for operation, monitoring and testing, while the greatest charges will fall when a major service is provided.
How to choose the best provider
Vendors of DRaaS typically offer a one-stop-shop solution, some of which may be designed to pair with Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server. Others can offer thorough cloud-based data centre and server restoration.
The larger the provider, the more resources clients are likely to get at their disposal in the DRaaS package, so it makes sense to find a solution with a globally recognised IT name.
Of fundamental importance is knowing that the DRaaS provider will be able to keep your organisation running as normal. This might sound an obvious point, but not all providers will cover all disaster eventualities while maintaining full operational capacity to all services.
DRaaS covers a huge range of potential services, so ensure that you know what you’re buying and what will be involved in contracts before taking the important decisions.
Dell
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