The process of creating and storing copies of data that can be used to protect organizations against data loss. This is sometimes referred to as operational recovery.

In today’s environment, even a minute of downtime can cripple a business. From lost customers to regulatory fines to damaged brand value, interrupted service and data breaches can have broad, negative impacts on a business—and if critical applications, processes and systems are not highly available and resilient, the failure is perceived as on the IT department.
Modern IT leaders who most successfully tackle this challenge are moving away from the status quo and rebuilding their disaster recovery (DR) strategy to take advantage of new technology.

Backup and disaster recovery is a combination of data backup and disaster recovery solutions that work cohesively to ensure a company’s business continuity. Remote data backup is the process of backing up data created by remote and branch offices (ROBOs) and storing it securely.

Backup as a Service (BaaS) protects the data, and typically allows for recovery of a file or server back to the customer’s on-prem environment.

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) protects the business, and allows for recovery of the entire IT environment (servers, storage, networking, apps, data) in the cloud.