DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service)

This service is available to any company that wants to provide additional protection for its IT infrastructure and has the necessary budget. We recommend DRaaS to clients in the Fintech and banking sectors, e-commerce platforms, agricultural companies, and others whose operations, reputation, and revenue are closely tied to the availability of their digital products and services. The decision to adopt DRaaS depends on factors such as company size, the volume of critical data, and the tolerance for downtime.

The final cost of disaster recovery solutions depends on two main factors: the number of reserved virtual resources needed to quickly deploy a mirror copy of the IT infrastructure in the Colobridge cloud, and the volume of data stored, which is influenced by RTO and RPO.
RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the maximum allowable downtime for the IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster or other incident. The acceptable RTO is determined by the specific needs and requirements of the business. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is the maximum amount of data that can be lost due to a disaster or incident without causing significant harm to the business. For example, if the RPO is set to two hours, backups are performed every two hours. As a result, the restored IT infrastructure will include data from no more than two hours prior to the incident (though it could be as recent as 10 or 30 minutes, but not two hours and five minutes).
Generally, the shorter the RTO and RPO, the higher the cost of the disaster recovery service. While instant recovery is technically feasible, the associated costs and complexity may outweigh the economic benefits for the business. When selecting the optimal solution, it is important to balance the cost of ensuring IT infrastructure resilience with the potential losses the company might incur from a disaster or other incident.

Local copies are subject to the same risks as the main IT infrastructure: physical hardware failure, seizure by regulatory authorities, theft and sabotage, accidental deletion of backups, as well as fires and natural disasters. If both the working version of the data and its backups are stored at the same facility, you risk losing all of them if the facility is compromised.
While some companies may not require a comprehensive Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy, others can incur significant losses if they rely solely on scheduled backups. In the event of an incident (such as a disaster, theft, or natural calamity), the company often needs to find a site where the IT infrastructure can be quickly restored. By using cloud-based disaster recovery (DRaaS), you can protect your business from potentially critical downtime, whereas Backup as a Service (BaaS) only addresses the risk of data loss.

DRaaS users can select which virtual servers to replicate, configure the replication frequency, determine the number of replica storage points, and set the sequence and priority for activating servers on the Colobridge cloud platform according to their disaster recovery plan.