SECURE CLOUD BACKUP

Using a third-party service provider to host your data and virtual infrastructure in an environment outside of your primary business premises.

Your services provider handles the cost of software licenses for the offsite BaaS/DRaaS infrastructure. Pacific Infotech utilises multiple software environments like Veeam Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions, Vembu, Backup-Assist, R-Sync, Quest Rapid Recovery etc. they are all considered as standard tools for Business Continuity (BC) /Disaster Recovery (DR).

As a company, Pacific is Veeam Pro-Partner. We also have a fully Veeam-certified professional on our team.

In a DR solution, failover processes are designed to ensure business continuity. Should a disaster occur, you can switch to your mission-critical applications or services within few clicks.

For example, if damage happens to the Hyper-V cluster where your machines reside, you can ignite the failover process  and ensure business continuity by starting the business services from the available backup cluster in the cloud.

With BaaS, however, the service provider will only secure a copy of onsite backups to the cloud infrastructure.

For example, should a fire cause damage to your infrastructure, you can access an available backed-up copy and restore it at any time once the infrastructure is redeployed again.

RPO is a Recovery Point Objective, the latest backup point available for recovery.

RTO is a Recovery Time Objective, the amount of time it takes to get your processes up and running again.

RPO and RTO are the parameters for BC/DR solution.

After deploying a DRaaS, you can measure RPO and RTO quickly for your mission-critical applications and services. DRaaS is the best solution to protect your high-end services from the consequences of natural catastrophes such as floods, fires, virus attacks, and earthquakes.

If you are paying for a BaaS solution, you are fully responsible if anything goes wrong with the infrastructure even though Managed IT Services are in place. With a BaaS solution you can ensure data is not lost in the event of a catastrophe.

With a DRaaS solution, business continuity is ensured for the mission-critical applications and services even in the event of infrastructure downtime. However, physically fixing your primary setup is still your responsibility.

For example, consider a scenario where your critical business services  are running in virtual infrastructure and downtime happens due to a SAN failure. Here, you can trigger with DRaaS the successful failover switching and ensure service availability until the primary infrastructure is fixed and up again.

Backup as a Service is only one part of a wider Disaster Recovery strategy, so it generally costs less than a fully-functional DRaaS. BaaS is good where you require the copy of onsite backups in the offsite cloud location to make sure it is available when needed.

Consider a DRaaS solution if the cost of maintaining that solution works out less than the cost of the downtime of your services. In other words, consider the financial impact on your business if your infrastructure went down and your mission-critical systems and services were unavailable.

If the cost of getting things up and running again, combined with the impact of lost revenues, is more than the cost of DRaaS, then buying a quality Disaster Recovery solution may be a smart move.

BaaS And DRaaS are both offsite solutions provided by third-party providers.

Maintaining Onsite backups is essential before considering a BaaS or DRaaS solution.

On-premise backups are vulnerable to physical theft, fires, and natural disasters, and are therefore offsite backups are highly recommended.