After announcing backup as a service offering, Cohesity, a next-gen data management company, has announced the implementation of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS).
Cohesity DRaaS is the latest offering from Cohesity’s Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) portfolio. DMaaS is a series of ‘as a service’ offerings that provide organisations with a radically simple way to back up, secure, govern, and analyse their data. This reduces the separate services, solutions, and administrative consoles that organizations need to invest in.
Disaster recovery
The new service extends the disaster recovery (DR) services provided by Cohesity SiteContinuity and adds the ability to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a recovery location for failover and failback as a service model.
The introduction of DraaS products present the following benefits for enterprises:
- Minimise downtime and data loss: Reduces the risk of potential downtime and data loss with snapshot-based backup and near-sync replication.
- Meet service level agreements (SLAs):Customers can easily design recovery plans and assign SLAs to deliver resiliency while meeting business requirements.
- Simplify operations: All of Cohesity’s offerings are managed through a single user interface to significantly simplify disaster recovery operations.
- Lower costs and improve time-to-value:Reduce idle infrastructure by using on-demand pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure from AWS in the event of a disaster or test drill. This speeds up time to value by quickly instigating a disaster recovery strategy without having to procure additional hardware or physical data centers.
Business continuity
“There has never been a more critical time to offer disaster recovery as a service,” said Matt Waxman, Vice President of Product Management, Cohesity. “In an age of crippling ransomware attacks, the number one concern many IT leaders have is maintaining business continuity if they get hit. DRaaS can help organisations recover quickly and cost effectively. And, as with other Cohesity SaaS and on-premises offerings, customers can manage everything through the Cohesity Helios multicloud platform. It’s simplicity redefined.”
