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DRaaS — Disaster Recovery as a Service
Posted October,13,2011 by John Humphreys
Everyone wants to provide a service. We are all too familiar with Software as a Service (SaaS). But in the beginning there was IaaS (infrastructure as a service), platform as a service (PaaS) and, more recently, Desktop as a Service and Storage as a Service. And now, in the ever-expanding world of “IT as a Service (ITaaS?),” Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is upon us.
While attending Interop in NYC last week, I ran across BlackCloud Edge (BCE) – a new entrant into the DRaaS space that, at first blush, has cracked both platform heterogeneity needs as well as storage bandwidth challenges. BlackCloud Edge provides vaulting and recovery services for all different platforms. It leverages storage from Amazon S3 along with a shared pool of infrastructure the company maintains on behalf of its clients. Should any BCE client experience an event, IT-Lifeline will replicate the customer’s IT environment “in the cloud.” Recovery times are estimated at one business day.
For anyone who has spent any time living in the business continuity space, you know DR is comparable to eating your peas. It’s good for us but we eat them only because we are told we have to. Why is it that something so good for us is so tough to swallow? Cost and Complexity.
From a cost standpoint, it seems as if there is never enough room in the budget to purchase the “shadow infrastructure” to protect all of our applications. From a complexity point of view, the thought of having to keep the physical and virtual infrastructure in perfect lock step makes our teeth ache.
As a result, most organizations are, at best, protecting only the crown jewels or, at worst, providing simple online or offline backup of the data. The press over recent outages in public cloud services has proven that in a 24x7 interconnected world both a belt and suspenders are needed.
This new model for providing Disaster Recovery reduces the barrier to entry for SMEs who could not afford the price of admission or the ongoing management tax. It’s why I find BCE service (and others like it) so compelling. DRaaS takes what is viewed as a costly, difficult, fragile yet increasingly critical infrastructure and turns it into a low-cost, easily consumable and accessible service.
Add to this, via PAN manager, native many-to-one site support for DR, the ability to automate the recovery process and the elimination of secondary site software licenses and suddenly comprehensive protection of IT services – which was once was viewed as out of reach for 99% of organizations – is now accessible for all.
While attending Interop in NYC last week, I ran across BlackCloud Edge (BCE) – a new entrant into the DRaaS space that, at first blush, has cracked both platform heterogeneity needs as well as storage bandwidth challenges. BlackCloud Edge provides vaulting and recovery services for all different platforms. It leverages storage from Amazon S3 along with a shared pool of infrastructure the company maintains on behalf of its clients. Should any BCE client experience an event, IT-Lifeline will replicate the customer’s IT environment “in the cloud.” Recovery times are estimated at one business day.
For anyone who has spent any time living in the business continuity space, you know DR is comparable to eating your peas. It’s good for us but we eat them only because we are told we have to. Why is it that something so good for us is so tough to swallow? Cost and Complexity.
From a cost standpoint, it seems as if there is never enough room in the budget to purchase the “shadow infrastructure” to protect all of our applications. From a complexity point of view, the thought of having to keep the physical and virtual infrastructure in perfect lock step makes our teeth ache.
As a result, most organizations are, at best, protecting only the crown jewels or, at worst, providing simple online or offline backup of the data. The press over recent outages in public cloud services has proven that in a 24x7 interconnected world both a belt and suspenders are needed.
This new model for providing Disaster Recovery reduces the barrier to entry for SMEs who could not afford the price of admission or the ongoing management tax. It’s why I find BCE service (and others like it) so compelling. DRaaS takes what is viewed as a costly, difficult, fragile yet increasingly critical infrastructure and turns it into a low-cost, easily consumable and accessible service.
Add to this, via PAN manager, native many-to-one site support for DR, the ability to automate the recovery process and the elimination of secondary site software licenses and suddenly comprehensive protection of IT services – which was once was viewed as out of reach for 99% of organizations – is now accessible for all.
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