Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is rapidly gaining popularity and is a critical service for most organizations. When unexpected situations arise companies can not afford to lose critical data.

DRaaS is defined as providing a remotely hosted disaster recovery service to protect a business’s data and applications. It can be helpful to examine the benefits of DRaaS. Here’s a quick look at the top four reasons to consider DRaaS:

1. Reduce IT resources spent on Disaster Recovery
   DRaaS can be deployed within hours or days (depending on the number of servers) as compared to the weeks or months it can take to build a secondary disaster recovery site. By reducing complexity and simplifying the DR solution with a single provider, businesses and their IT groups save time—when compared to managing their own Disaster Recovery site.
2. Reduce Costs
   Businesses that currently have a secondary site for disaster recovery purposes are surely familiar with the high costs associated with it. Beyond the investments in replication software and the required software licenses for servers, storage, and security, there are several significant additional costs. Most of these additional costs are effectively eliminated by using DRaaS through a managed service provider. A DRaaS offering eliminates the need for the following expenses:

• Owning or leasing space for a secondary data center
• Monthly costs associated with power, cooling, and internet bandwidth at the secondary site
• Purchase or lease of servers, storage, and network equipment for the secondary site
• Travel to and from data centers or onsite staff at the secondary data center

3. Achieve interoperability
   DRaaS solutions work with dissimilar systems so that businesses can protect servers across different hypervisors and replicate data between dissimilar storage systems.
4. Provide a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Solution
   Many times companies who implement their own disaster recovery site have to start by protecting the most critical servers first. In some cases, they are never able to protect all their servers. Because DRaaS is much easier and more affordable than homemade solutions, many companies are able to protect all of their servers (physical and virtual) within a reasonable time frame and budget.

Contact Select Tel today and our team will assist you in evaluating DRaaS