Cloud 101 – Recovery as a Service (RaaS) is Here!
Posted by brennels on February 17, 2010
Recovery as a Service (RaaS) is a new cloud computing service model and is a combination of the three primary models – Infratructure, Platform or Software as a Service. However “Recovery as a Service” is utilized by companies looking to reduce the recovery time objective for their IT infrastructure backup processes. The RaaS model is an extreme benefit to smaller business that may not have the initial capital or experience to create a redundant or disaster recovery data center. The length of time it takes to even receive archived tape media from an offsite location and recover the lost server renders it an ineffective disaster recovery solution. With a “Recovery as a Service” model, companies can easily backup entire servers in real-time to a cloud provider like Amazon EC2 all for a very low cost service fee that includes the cost of software, hardware and storage. This isn’t a consumer solution like Mozy or Carbonite that backs up your kid’s iTunes. This is a big boy solution that allows companies to backup entire servers or data centers including the operating system, applications as well as the associated data.
In the event one of those servers or an entire data center is lost those replicated server images can be spun up in the cloud infrastructure and run from the remote location as if you had a duplicate data center with up-to-date data for maximum productivity. This provides a company a business continuity solution and the ability to service their customers even when there is an interruption of business critical systems at the office. When the original primary data center or server has been all the changes that have been made to the server workload running in the cloud can be replicated back and restored with minimal interruption. This is “Recovery as a Service” and it will be one of the fastest growing cloud computing trends in 2010.
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