If you live in a natural disaster-prone zone and you hear the warning for an earthquake that could destroy your house, what would be the first thing that you would grab? Or, as Sherlock Holmes did, what if a fire broke out and you have just enough time to grab the most important thing to you? Well, it would be documents or money as you can’t go without this. But that’s personal and can be applied to any home. But what if the same conditions are applied to a bank or an IT company that stores all its data and everything that the company has built, let’s say, for the last ten years, would be down the rubble.
One cannot just take all the hard drives and run away. It would be foolish and time-consuming to collect all the hard drives and shove them in your car, or some truck would take time and much space. Thus, new technology has been developed to recover all your data lost in a natural disaster. The disaster recovery as a service or DRaaS is a cloud service where it allows companies to backup and stores all the data necessary to recover after a natural disaster.
Why is DRaaS necessary?
Several points can be stated here, which shows why DRaaS is necessary, but the major culprit for why every company should use DRaaS is its tremendous benefits. Whether there is:-
- A power shortage, a circuit failure, or equipment failure.
- A natural disaster such as a hurricane or floods.
- Cyberattacks or virus attacks.
Whenever any disaster like this happens, a data breach or loss is a must. Thus it is very much important that all the companies make sure that their data isn’t lost.
How does disaster service as a service work?
This is by far the most asked question when it comes to DRaaS. This is because there may come a time where you can forget to upload your data into the backup server, and it would be disastrous. But the company that handles the DRaaS would handle all the work related to uploading.
Firstly the company must agree to certain security agreements to let a third party handle their data. This is very crucial as banks, and other security services would be hesitant to share. But the benefits that it would give after a disaster would be enormous.
So this was the article on disaster recovery as a service. If you have questions, please write them below in the comment section.
