March, 2025
How Much “Service” Do You Need from Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service?
All Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) providers do the same basic thing: They manage the recovery of data and applications following an outage or cyberattack.
The growing frequency of cyberattcks highlights the importance of these services. Cloudflare, for example, mitigated 6.9 million DDoS attacks in Q4 2024, a 16% increase quarter-over-quarter and an 83% rise year-over-year.
But what the word “service” actually means in the context of DRaaS can vary widely because different DRaaS providers offer different approaches to managed disaster recovery. At one end of the spectrum, there are solutions where a third party manages every aspect of disaster recovery planning, testing and execution for customers. At the other, are providers that deliver only the most basic disaster recovery services and expect clients to do much of the heavy lifting themselves.