A Close Look At Leaders In Rapidly Growing DRaaS Market

Databarracks

Databarracks focuses on data recovery and protection at a low cost. It does this by using an infrastructure platform that allows access to hardware only when needed. Its service allows for remote access to data from any location, giving clients flexibility to back up and recover from wherever they like.

Strengths:

–Offers an adjustable management process for resource bursting.

–No-cost testing is ideal for clients who want to analyze its recovery process multiple times throughout a year.

–Enables rapid failover times for virtual and physical servers.

–Each client is designated a specified commercial account manager and technical account manager, as well as given access to the Service Delivery Management team for support.

Databarracks replicates and restores multiple tiers, including hypervisors, physical and virtual servers and applications. It also uses integrated backup and recovery for virtualization. Databarracks’ technology partners include Veeam, VMware and Zerto.

IBM Cloud Services

IBM Cloud Virtualized Server Recovery (CVSR) maintains continuous business operations and improved resilience against data disruption. The fully managed cloud disaster recovery service aids virtual and physical locations on a virtualized cloud infrastructure at a designated secure data recovery center.

Strengths:

–Has varying levels of test frequency, declaration costs, recovery targets and service pricing, making it easier for clients to create the ideal service for its needs.

–Client-initiated premises-to-cloud failovers give clients more control over activities.

–Recovery management simplicity is ideal for enterprise customers.

–A comprehensive provider portal interface lends itself to accessible administration.

IBM offers an array of data protection options and a multi-tiered portal for shortened recovery times. The ready-to-go structure helps customers decrease time and investment in building, operating and managing the resiliency solution. IBM’s data recovery service ensures nonstop replication of data to avoid hazardous gaps. Clients can also employ continuous data observation for a monthly subscription price.

NTT Communications

NTT Communications’ cloud disaster recovery service offers both recovery and backup of data. Clients are in constant control of the service, with self-management options, audit logs and asset-based usage reporting.

Strengths:

–Allows clients to take charge of its service through self-driven definition, configuration, setup and monitoring.

–Virtual and physical servers can be hosted in multiple locations globally, which aids in support of hybrid configurations.

–Failover and recovery testing are offered at no cost, which makes it simple for clients to test its recovery systems whenever they want.

–NTT Communications’ systems are continuously checked for data integrity and availability.

NTT Communications’ ensures enterprise-class firewalls and multi-level security of its cloud replica server. It offers Hybrid Cloud, Enterprise Cloud and Cloud options for instant protection and recovery. NTT Communications’ automated cloud storage process provides high flexibility for clients, as well, as it runs on a predefined service-level agreement and requires little monitoring.

Seagate

Seagate EVault Cloud Resiliency Service offers both self-managed and provider-managed data protection and recovery services. Its DRaaS model provides real-time replication of system data, in addition to access during planned downtime. The company guarantees the availability of critical data within one hour of an outage, ensuring that you will be able to access systems even in the event of a disaster.

Strengths:

–Offers tiered storage to guarantee that most critical data can be retrieved as soon as possible during an outage.

–Additional storage can reach up to 15 percent more at no extra charge.

–Daily data integrity checking ensures system stability.

–Offers extensive language support.

Seagate uses a one-hour service-level agreement option that is compatible with any backup solution, mitigating the need for a secondary site. The services also support a number of Windows and virtual platforms, to protect data and applications, including Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012; NetApp; Microsoft Exchange; SQL Server, File Server and SharePoint; Blackberry Server; IBM i and IBM AIX; Red Hat and SUSE Linux; and VMware.