DRaaS Tiers for Customized Protection by US Signal

US Signal LLC enhanced its DR as a service (DRaaS) offering to include two service tiers: standard and premium.

Doing so will allow the IT solution provider’s customers to customize their DR plans to meet specific business requirements and risk profiles.

Tiers offer protection level choices
With both tiers of the company’s DRaaS solution, a customer’s primary production environment is continuously replicated to a firm’s cloud environment or between multiple company’s data centers. When needed, a replicated instance of the environment can be deployed within minutes. The fully managed service includes coordinated bi-annual testing and a playbook that’s updated monthly to account for any environment changes.

The service tiers are differentiated by recovery resources and performance guarantees. The premium tier is geared towards the more immediate recovery requirements for mission-critical workloads. It includes priority event restoration over standard workloads; service level-defined storage performance; guaranteed compute, memory and storage resources; and a service level agreement for RTO.

The standard tier provides comparable data protection but is designed to accommodate less critical workloads. Restoration takes place after premium workloads have been restored. Storage performance, resource capacity, and RTO are delivered ‘best effort’. Because there are no associated service level objectives, the standard tier DRaaS solution can ensure the recovery of less-essential workloads but at a lower cost than a one-size-fits-all DR service.

Builds Strength in DRaaS market
Demand for DRaaS solutions continues to grow due to the increasing importance of data to most businesses’ operations and the rising threat of cyber-attacks and other disasters that can result in data loss. According to Gartner, Inc. the current value of the DRaaS market is $2.02 billion and could reach $3.73 billion by 2021.

The company has established a reputation in the IT service industry for its data protection solutions, including DRaaS. The company recently upgraded the Zerto software that powers its DRaaS solution. Among the benefits of the Zerto 5.0 software is that it can accommodate hypervisor-based ‘one-to-many’ replication for protecting multiple workloads across different data center sites.

DRaaS promotion running through date
To kick off the launch of its DRaaS service tiers, the company is offering one free month of DRaaS and complimentary onboarding for contacts of twelve months or longer signed by December 31, 2017. The offer applies to both the standard and premium service tiers.