After the disaster: Cloud recovery becomes DRaaStic
The idea is this: Your worst fears realized, you've got sites down, maybe all of your locations and data centers, and the clock has stopped ticking.
Except that it doesn't.
Business and people's lives need to continue. I won't go down the long tawdry list of what can kill you in the digital cloud age. Suffice to say that every exec needs to understand business continuity from the myriad angles of its internal ops, clientele, assets, and employees.
The idea behind DRaaS is to provide either failover or rapid recovery services. The services, in turn, range from site and transactional restoration to full data center/ops center parachute-in takeover. As dependency on operations and data centers can be diffuse, so are the DRaaS offerings by different vendors, most of which fall into the ISP/MSP classes for their connectivity and facilities investments and service renderings.
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