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Disaster Recovery
as a Service (DRaaS)
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a crucial
component of cloud computing as it is designed
to bring key technology resources back online
after a natural or human-induced disaster. In
smart business management, insurance gives you
the peace of mind that all your physical assets are
covered if disaster strikes. DRaaS is like insurance
for all your data and systems, which are a core
component of your business’ success.
DRaaS requirements and expectations are
documented in a specific Service Level Agreement
(SLA) with the vendor providing failover to a cloud
computing environment, either through a contract
or pay-per-use basis.
Why DRaaS?
Where there is an unexpected event, an offsite
vendor will be less likely than the business itself to
suffer the direct and immediate effects, allowing the
provider to implement disaster recovery even in the
event of a worst case scenario.
By utilising an effective DraaS solution, it prevents
organisations having to invest in and maintain
their own offsite Disaster Recovery environment.
Contracts are flexible and can be adjusted as the
business’ needs change. DRaaS can be especially
useful for small to mid-size businesses that may not
have the expertise to develop, configure and test an
effective disaster recovery plan.
How can we help?
We use your current internet connection or provide
a separate point to point communications link, which
connects your business directly to our network. This
link then provides offsite backups to secure data
centre locations.
With two separate locations, the Geraldton Data
Centre has the unique advantage of being able to
offer companies the ability to replicate their core
services to both a primary and secondary location
over 400km away, all within Western Australia. All
data transfers between our data centres take place
over high-speed fibre, enabling your business to be
back online within an acceptable timeframe.
Geraldton Data Centre can offer services from
offsite backup targets where we simply store your
data, to full management solutions where we
oversee all of your backups, test the validity of the
backup, carry out regular test recoveries and provide
reports and recommendations on data retention and
storage options.
The costs of our backup services are modelled
from the Service Level Agreement (SLA) that
allocates a specific time to recover your data. This
determines how and where your data is stored. Data
that requires a rapid recovery time is stored in our
Near Line SAN environment. Data that requires a
moderate recovery time is stored in our duplication
environment where rehydration of the data during
restoration is required.
Disaster Recovery is more than just data or file recovery.
Your IT business services need to be up and operational with minimal impact
on the delivery of core services to your business and to your clients.
If you’re not sure, call us on 9920 8555!
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