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DRaaS has steadily become a more popular option to protect your critical services and applications. A Gartner survey in 2019 showed that businesses are now protecting an average of 255 virtualized x86 instances. This is an increase of 53% from 2018 which indicates an increased adoption of DRaaS by larger organizations.
As you might expect, the DRaaS market is growing rapidly as well and today there are a wide array of different DRaaS providers. All of these providers have different approaches to DR as well as their own feature sets, capabilities and costs. This wide selection of vendors and capabilities can make picking a DRaaS solution complex and difficult. While there are too many DRaaS providers to list them all, some of the main companies in the DRaaS market include:
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As you begin to look into DRaaS solutions, the starting point is to identify your recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs). In addition, you need to understand your organization’s overarching data center and cloud strategy.
Part of the evaluation process is to understand your business’s downtime impacts, regional availability requirements, and application modernization plans. Some of the key features to look for in a DRaaS implementation include:
The DRaaS market can be confusing but understanding your requirements and the capabilities offered by each DRaaS provider can help you to successfully navigate the DRaaS maze.
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