Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)?
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) allows organizations to protect their IT infrastructure by backing up data to a remote data center or cloud. In the event of a disaster—such as hardware failure, power outages, cyberattacks, or natural disasters—DRaaS ensures businesses can recover quickly and continue operations with minimal downtime.
MSPs (Managed Service Providers) offer DRaaS as part of their managed services portfolio, helping businesses deploy and manage recovery plans without the need for in-house expertise. DRaaS solutions typically include features such as automated offsite backups, failover capabilities, and instant recovery, making it an essential service for organizations that rely on continuous uptime.
BDRSuite – The Best DRaaS Solution
BDRSuite is designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to offer robust & cost-effective Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to protect clients’ data and IT infrastructure. BDRSuite helps you deliver business continuity solutions that keep your clients operational, no matter what. Whether you’re backing up data to a remote data center or the cloud, performing VM replication, or offering rapid failover and recovery, BDRSuite for DRaaS ensures that your clients’ critical systems are always protected and ready to recover.
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How Does Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Work?
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) works by backing up an organization’s critical IT infrastructure and data to a remote datacenter or cloud environment. DRaaS ensures business continuity by maintaining an up-to-date Offsite/DR copy, ready to be activated at a moment’s notice when disaster strikes.
Here’s how DRaaS works:
Offsite Backup: DRaaS begins with the offsite backup of an organization’s data, systems, applications, and virtual machines (VMs) to a secure remote location/cloud. These backups can be scheduled based on the business’s requirements, with frequent backups ensuring data integrity.
VM Replication: Enables businesses to create VM replicas and keep it in ready to use state in another location. Even if VM in one location becomes unavailable due to a disaster, businesses can failover to DR site.
Failover: In the event of a disaster, the DRaaS provider can trigger a failover, which means that applications and systems will continue running on the remote data center or cloud, even if the primary infrastructure is down, ensuring minimal downtime.
Recovery: Once the disaster is resolved, the DRaaS provider facilitates the recovery process, often through automated systems, to restore the organization’s operations to the original infrastructure or a new environment.
Testing and Optimization: DRaaS solutions often include testing capabilities that allow businesses to simulate disaster scenarios to ensure that recovery processes are effective. These tests help refine the recovery plan and reduce recovery time during actual events.
Types of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Managed DRaaS
Managed DRaaSIn this model, the entire disaster recovery process is managed by the service provider. This includes data backup, replication, failover, and recovery. The service provider ensures that your business can recover swiftly and efficiently in case of a disaster, with minimal input needed from your team.
Example: A company using Managed DRaaS doesn’t need to worry about setting up or maintaining a secondary disaster recovery site. The service provider handles everything, including regular backups and testing the recovery process, allowing the company to focus on its core operations.
Best for: Businesses that want a fully outsourced solution with no in-house management of disaster recovery.
Assisted DRaaS
Assisted DRaaS provides a balance between outsourcing and control. The service provider helps you set up the disaster recovery plan, including backup schedules, replication, and failover procedures, but your team will be responsible for triggering the recovery process during a disaster.
Example: A company with an IT team using Assisted DRaaS would have the provider assist in designing and configuring the disaster recovery system, but if disaster strikes, the IT team would manage the failover and recovery process.
Best for: Businesses with in-house IT resources that want guidance and expert input but still prefer to control the recovery process.
Best for: Businesses with in-house IT resources that want guidance and expert input but still prefer to control the recovery process.
Self-Service DRaaS
Self-Service DRaaS is the most hands-on option. The service provider supplies the cloud infrastructure and tools, but your team is responsible for managing the disaster recovery plan, monitoring backups, and executing recovery when needed.
Example: A business using Self-Service DRaaS would have to set up and monitor their own backups, and in the event of a disaster, they would trigger failover and recovery themselves, relying on the provider’s infrastructure to restore systems.
Best for: Businesses with dedicated IT teams and resources that prefer full control over their disaster recovery process.
Why MSPs Choice BDRSuite for DRaaS
BDRCloud-Hosted DR Console
Eliminates infrastructure setup hassles with no hardware or maintenance required, enabling seamless backup management anytime, anywhere.
Self-hosted DR Console
You can setup an offsite DR Server in your preferred location either in your datacenter or client’s remote data center or on the cloud for full control
Store Your Data Anywhere
Store offsite backups on local datacenter (DAS, NAS, SAN), in your own public cloud (S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud, Wasabi, MinIO, Backblaze, etc) or on our cost-effective BDRCloud storage.
Offsite Backup for Diverse Workloads
Efficiently create offsite backups for a wide range of workloads – Endpoints, Servers, SaaS, VMs, Cloud VMs, Apps/DBs.
Scalability
BDRSuite is highly scalable, allowing MSPs to accommodate the needs of businesses of all sizes, as clients’ data volumes and infrastructure expand.
Cost-Effective
BDRSuite provides MSPs with a cost-effective way to deliver DRaaS to their clients without upfront capital investments. This makes it easier for MSPs to offer competitive pricing while maintaining profitability.
Easy Setup and Management
BDRSuite’s user-friendly interface and centralized management dashboard make it simple for MSPs to set up and manage disaster recovery for multiple clients from a single console.
Dedicated Support
BDRSuite offers MSPs access to 24/7 technical support to ensure smooth operation and quick resolution of any issues.
Key Features – BDRSuite for DRaaS
VM Replication
VM replication ensures continuous availability by replicating virtual machines (VMs) to a remote site. This minimizes downtime and ensures that your clients’ operations are back online quickly with ready-to-use VMs.
Failover & Failback
With failover and failback capabilities, clients’ systems can automatically switch to a secondary location during a disaster and then revert back once the primary site is restored.
Offsite Copy/DR to Remote Data Centers
BDRSuite allows to backup critical data to remote data centers, ensuring that data is protected from local disasters, such as fires, flooding, or power outages.
Cloud Disaster Recovery
BDRSuite provides flexibility to store offsite backups in BDRCloud or on your own public cloud. Cloud-based offsite backups ensure data availability even if their primary infrastructure is compromised.
Ransomware Protection & Recovery
Immutable backups guarantee that data cannot be altered, protecting your clients data against ransomware and enables the restoration of systems and files from an uninfected backup copy.
Instant Recovery
With instant recovery capabilities, businesses can recover their systems, files, and applications within minutes, drastically reducing downtime. This ensures that critical operations can resume quickly, even in the event of a disaster.
Security & Compliance
BDRSuite offers advanced security measures to ensure that all backup data is securely protected and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
Rebuild from Site Disaster
In the case of a catastrophic event, BDRSuite allows businesses to rebuild their entire IT infrastructure from scratch, whether on-premises or in the cloud. This ensures that businesses can recover all their critical systems, data, and configurations quickly, even if the primary site is completely compromised.
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Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) – FAQs
- Backup as a Service (BaaS) is a fully managed backup and recovery service offered by Managed Service Providers (MSPs) that allows businesses to protect their critical data without the need to manage backup infrastructure. By outsourcing data backup to MSPs, businesses can ensure their data is consistently protected, easily recoverable, and compliant with industry standards—all without the overhead of managing backup systems in-house
- Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), on the other hand, goes beyond data backup. DRaaS not only ensures that your data is backed up but also allows for the disaster recovery of entire IT systems, applications, and virtual machines (VMs) in the event of a major disaster. DRaaS solutions often include failover and failback capabilities, ensuring business continuity with minimal downtime during disasters. It is designed to handle larger-scale recovery processes, ensuring that operations can quickly resume after significant disruptions.
To ensure effective and reliable DRaaS, MSPs should follow these best practices:
- Clear RTO and RPO: Define Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) to meet client expectations
- Offsite Backup Automation: Automate offsite backup processes to reduce human error and ensure consistency
- Multi-Location Backups: Store backups in multiple locations (on-premises and cloud) for added protection
- Data Encryption: Protect sensitive data with end-to-end encryption during both backup and recovery
- Proactive Monitoring: Continuously monitor backup health and systems to address issues promptly
- Regular Testing: Conduct disaster recovery drills to ensure readiness and identify potential weaknesses
- Regular Plan Updates: Update disaster recovery plans to reflect changes in client environments and infrastructure
- Detailed Reporting: Offer clients comprehensive reports on backup and recovery status for transparency
- Minimal Downtime: Ensures rapid recovery with instant recovery and automated failover, reducing downtime
- Enhanced Security: Provides strong data protection with encryption and secure storage
- Reliability: Data is replicated across multiple locations for added redundancy and availability
- Simplified Management: Managed by service providers, freeing businesses from handling complex recovery processes
- Compliance: Helps meet industry regulations by offering secure and compliant backup and recovery solutions
When selecting a Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provider, it’s crucial to consider the following factors to ensure that the solution aligns with your business needs and recovery goals.
- RTO & RPO: Ensure the provider meets your specific recovery time and data loss requirements
- Flexibility: Choose a provider that supports setting up DR anywhere you prefer (on-premise, cloud, or hybrid)
- Security & Compliance: Verify security measures and industry standard compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA)
- Scalability: Choose a provider that scales with your business growth
- Cost: Consider total service costs, including setup, subscription, and recovery fees
- Reliability & Uptime: Ensure high availability and fast recovery times
- Customization: Check for flexibility to customize disaster recovery plans
- Support & SLAs: Ensure 24/7 support and clear SLAs
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