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5 Reasons Every Business Should Invest in Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) 

5 Reasons Every Business Should Invest in Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) 

By Chis Newell
Founder & President

With technology constantly evolving and security breaches becoming more common, data has never been more vulnerable. Businesses need to back up their data to restore it in the event of a disaster or security breach.  

However, ensuring that businesses remain operational after these events requires a little more than just data backup plans. What is needed is a solution that maintains the critical functions to minimize disruptions to business continuity and losses. That’s where Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) comes into play. 

What Is DRaaS?  

Disaster Recovery as a Service is a managed solution that allows businesses to establish alternative data processing sites used in a disaster or security event. As a result, it simplifies the disaster recovery process and makes it quicker and easier for businesses to back up critical data and apps cost-effectively.  DRaaS solutions come with many benefits for businesses and have become increasingly popular across all industry sectors. Let us look at some of the most notable advantages of making companies turn to DRaaS vendors to safeguard their data. 

Fast, Reliable, And Secure 

With DRaaS solutions, there is a faster, automated, and more dependable recovery process compared to traditional practices. Moreover, your data will be securely stored in multiple cloud locations, so businesses don’t have to worry about having a single point of failure.  Most importantly, DRaaS solutions also guarantee the backups, practice failover, and disaster declaration and ensure copies are current and complete, giving peace of mind. 

Cost-Effective 

Unlike traditional backup methods, DRaaS solutions keep monthly expenses low and predictable. In addition, businesses never have to invest in on-premise IT infrastructure for disaster recovery, lowering costs.  

Better Administration 

The nature of DRaaS eliminates the need for IT teams to handle tedious data recovery and repair activities. Hiring a third party to take care of data recovery reduces the burden on IT, allowing the focus on what matters while reducing FTE in-house expenses.  

Ease Of Scale 

DRaaS is easy it is to customize the disaster recovery plan.  Businesses can quickly scale up the DRaaS solution for growth or scale down depending on requirements.  As a result, companies won’t have to overextend their environment and pay more to safeguard data.  

Strategic 

DRaaS vendors can create a formal disaster recovery plan taking different scenarios into account based on their experience in the industry and promised recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).  They are also capable of testing disaster recovery plans periodically to ensure their effectiveness.   

Our Verdict?  

Using a third party to take care of data backup and disaster recovery plans can safeguard data and keep businesses operational in a disaster. Contact us If you want to know more about what DRaaS can do for your business or organization.