Five Key Questions About Disaster Recovery As A Service
ComputerWeekly, Friday, October 20,2023
Disaster recovery as a service builds recovery data and systems into the cloud, accessible from anywhere. We look at the difference vs cloud backup, DRaaS use cases, the cost, and the firms that provide it
Research by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) suggests more than half of firms now use DRaaS. That's because DRaaS allows customers to recover quickly from a disaster or other outage, but without the cost of conventional, hardware-based data replication and redundant systems.
By using cloud storage and managed services, organisations save on capital expenditure and IT overheads, but at the possible cost of longer recovery times.
But CIOs need to distinguish between cheaper, but less functional, cloud-based backup services and true DRaaS, as well as navigate through a complex set of suppliers, functionality and pricing.