Closing the Recovery Time Gap: Infrastructure vs Backup Solutions
StorageSwiss.com, Monday, May 4th, 2026
Only 35% of organizations achieve their expected recovery times because the gap is architectural, not a backup product problem.
According to Backblaze's 2024 data, only 35 percent of organizations that expect to recover within hours actually do, with the remaining 65 percent failing due to structural architectural issues rather than backup product deficiencies.
Recovery failures occur when data restores but network configuration doesn't, VMs return but dependent services are missing, or applications start without integration points. The solution lies in implementing true Virtual Data Center (VDC) encapsulation that contains compute, networking, security policies, and storage as a single recoverable unit, rather than treating recovery as merely a backup vendor problem.
Organizations can test their recovery architecture readiness by answering three questions: can workload groups be recovered as one object without touching broader infrastructure, does recovery depend on an external management plane, and can the unit be recovered to alternate hypervisors or sites. Combining proper VDC encapsulation with layer-two backup solutions like Storware can transform recovery from a multi-day configuration rebuild to a unit restart operation.