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The tradi onal DR method includes purchasing and
loca ng dedicated servers in a remote loca on and
replica ng all your mission-cri cal applica ons and data
to those servers - and then crossing your fingers that you
can bring it all back up as planned. Today, as the cloud
con nues to become more reliable and secure, many
organiza ons are moving to Disaster Recovery-as-a-
service (DRaaS).
DRaaS is designed to cater to businesses of every size and
need. Organiza ons can subscribe to full-scale DRaaS,
where the service provider manages everything from the
replica on of a customer's produc on virtual machines
(VMs), and in some cases physical machines, to full-
service recovery once a disaster is declared. Others look
for an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model offering in
which they handle their own VM replica on to the cloud
and manage their own recovery, and some organiza ons
simply want backup-as-a-service (BaaS), where the provider
manages customer backups from the produc on site to the
cloud.
Whatever flavor they choose, organiza ons that go the
DRaaS route quickly find out that the cloud provides
everything most businesses look for in a disaster recovery
plan, including:
Easy, frequent data replica on between sites: Since it's
Disaster Recovery in the Cloud – Does it make sense for you?
Solu on Case Study
Assessing the Real-world
Benefits of Hos ng and
Managed Services
In today's economy, every dollar
ma ers. As such, every IT ac vity
needs to be jus fied. This is where
hosted and managed services
can be an a rac ve alterna ve
to tradi onal in-house IT service
delivery.
This case study assesses the in-
house op on versus the service
provider op on and lays out what
you should consider during the
evalua on phase.
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