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As it stands today, the market for disaster recovery technology is split in two major areas: Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Disaster Recovery and Enterprise-grade Disaster Recovery. On the lower end you have solutions ranging from tape backup, cloud storage and other forms of backup, which — in a disaster scenario — an IT administrator is stuck patching together a recovery solution usually accompanied by lengthy time to recovery (RTO). On the higher end we see high availability and continuous data protection services that ensure no downtime but often come with a six-figure price tag, and require in-house staff who is dedicated to maintenance.

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Many businesses rely on disaster recovery services to prevent service disruptions in case disaster strikes, resulting in the emerging model of Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS), or Disaster Recovery (DR) on demand. Unfortunately, many of the current DR services available to small and mid-sized market come at a very high price when the entire cost of lost data lost, the time required to restart operations, and the price associated with failing over to the cloud, is factored in.

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With today’s workforce pushing out an increased amount of information, data, and projects, the need for quick recovery from a disaster is imperative. However, statistics have shown that the majority of small businesses are not prepared for such an occurrence. With any type of disaster scenario, whether natural or human-caused, IT systems are becoming more and more vulnerable to damage. Disaster can result in loss of revenue, damage to the businesses reputation and sometimes the ultimate demise of a company if there is not disaster recovery plan in place.

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