Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS)
Cloud-based services for helping to protect companies from the loss of mission-critical data in the event of a man-made or natural disaster. In addition to protecting data, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offerings help ensure business continuity by minimizing downtime and disruption to customers, clients and employees in the event of server failure or other disaster.
Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service solutions also typically offer more than just data recovery protection by additionally being able to replicate infrastructure and applications to help ensure full continuity of business operations. DRaaS service providers include the likes of Dell, IBM, Virtustream, Windstream and many others.
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