Prepare for Anything With Veeam DRaaS and Backups
Viyu has partnered with Veeam to offer you Veeam Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Through this service, you can protect critical data and apps while taking advantage of cloud flexibility.
In the event that disaster strikes, whether natural or manmade, DRaaS enables a third party to replicate the hosting of virtual or physical servers using Veeam to backup your infrastructure. DRaaS is essential for companies faced with countless risks, whether it’s a cyberattack, hardware failure, act of terrorism, or wildfire, hurricane, earthquake, or flood.
Disruptions create downtime which creates threats to revenue and growth. In fact, according to the Federal Management Agency (FEMA), 43 percent of organizations affected by a natural disaster never reopen, and 29 percent close within two years of the incident.
Through our partnership with Veeam, IT departments can truly leverage the benefits of a multi-cloud architecture without sacrificing that critical direct line of communication and our personal relationship with the DRaaS provider. IT departments then have the ability to shift this responsibility to a service provider like Viyu they know and trust, while retaining the ability to configure and consume the service the way they want. With advanced, image-based VM replication, Veeam Disaster Recovery as a Service provides fully integrated, fast, and secure image-based disaster recovery..
What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)?
DRaaS is a cloud computing service model that allows an organization to back up its data and IT infrastructure in a third-party cloud computing environment in order to regain access and functionality to IT infrastructure after a disaster. As the as-the-service model suggests, the organization needn’t own the resources to manage the disaster recovery. Instead, it relies on the service provider, such as Veeam Disaster Recovery as a Service.
The DRaaS process provides a mirror of the complete infrastructure in fail-safe mode on virtual servers, including compute, storage, and networking functions. An organization can continue to run applications—it just runs them from the service provider’s cloud or hybrid cloud environment instead of from the disaster-affected physical servers. This means recovery time after a disaster can be much faster, or even instantaneous. Once the physical servers are recovered or replaced, the processing and data is migrated back onto them.
DRaaS is also about Backup as a Service (BaaS)
Veeam Disaster Recovery as a Service works the following way after a disaster: After the disaster shuts down its site, the organization’s disaster recovery plan is executed on Veeam’s facilities. Before this point, the organization has worked out a service agreement that determines scope and priorities, which means there are no delays once Veeam Disaster Recovery as a Service is needed.
What BaaS does best is providing a backup system to ensure workflows continue uninterrupted and all workloads are securely replicated and protected. Without a good backup system in place, there is no data to later recover. It’s that simple. A cloud backup solution like Veeam Disaster Recovery as a Service protects the operating systems and applications and stores them in a safe and secure secondary storage location before transferring them to the cloud. That means customers can rest assured knowing that despite the interruption, nothing is lost.
DRaaS is also about Recovery
Once a system for protecting data is in place, organizations can go through the process of recovering files, applications, and whatever else is needed to continue operations smoothly following the site-wide failure. This involves both automatic and manual data transfers from the cloud. Recovery times can vary depending on objectives.