Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service
Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) is a cloud-based service that helps organizations recover their IT systems, applications, and data after a disruption such as a cyberattack, hardware failure, natural disaster, or human error. A third-party provider hosts and manages the disaster recovery infrastructure, allowing businesses to restore operations quickly without maintaining a separate recovery site.
How DRaaS Works
A typical DRaaS solution follows these steps:
Data replication: Critical data, applications, and virtual machines are continuously or periodically replicated to a secure cloud environment.
Monitoring: The DRaaS platform monitors the health of protected systems.
Failover: If the primary environment becomes unavailable, workloads are started in the cloud recovery environment.