When Backups Aren't Enough: The Case for Real Disaster Recovery
Blocks & Files, Thursday, July 2nd, 2026
Traditional backups fall short against ransomware, making dedicated disaster recovery essential for continuity.
Legacy backup approaches were built for hardware failures, not coordinated cyberattacks that compromise production and backup systems at once.
IBM research found 76 percent of organizations needed more than 100 days to recover from a cyberattack even with intact backups.
Downtime costs are steep, with small and midsize businesses reporting expenses over 100,000 dollars per hour and some unable to survive far smaller losses. Disaster Recovery as a Service maintains live replicas in secure cloud environments with automated failover, cutting recovery from days to minutes.
The DRaaS market is projected to grow from 18.89 billion dollars in 2025 to 83.15 billion dollars by 2034.