ROYAL OAK – Backup as a Service and Disaster Recovery as a Service are two new buzzwords that have entered the tech lexicon. Robert Tessanne, vice president Cloud & Technology Solutions for Red Level Networks, explains the advantages of both in this segment of M2 TechCast.

“BaaS” (Backup as a Service) and “DRaaS” (Disaster Recovery as a Service) are affordable, secure and effective enough at this point, to effectively preempt local solutions in all but a very few instances. Relative to the cloud, the cost and risk involved with maintaining high-volume on premises storage or a fully redundant in-house working environment simply doesn’t make sense.

Think about what happens when a data disaster strikes: You need to get access to your data and get up and running again as quickly as possible. Provided that your hardware and application infrastructure remains accessible and intact, BaaS solutions can serve your needs well – though they will still require a fair amount of time and effort for recovery to be accomplished. With a BaaS solution, your data is safely stored where you can get to it in the event of an emergency, but not necessarily in immediately workable form. If time is a serious consideration for you – or if your hardware and applications are inaccessible, such as in the case of a flood or fire – BaaS may not offer protection enough.

DRaaS is designed to deal with worst-of-worst-case scenarios. Even if your data is compromised and access to your hardware and applications is lost, a properly-configured DRaaS solution can have you up and running in no time. DRaaS creates a mirror not only of your data, but your entire operating environment – applications, servers, everything – available for nearly immediate access and use. When disaster strikes, a cloud-based virtual clone of your entire network can be remotely accessed and worked with in nearly-normal fashion. That can be the critical difference that keeps production, communications, fulfillment and other operations running smoothly, even in the worst of circumstances.

For companies that value time and money, DRaaS can be a lifesaver. For those who don’t consider it – or consider it soon enough – it can be the lifesaver they wish they’d had later on.

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