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The Ultimate DRaaS Buyer’s Guide 5 Must Haves

The Ultimate Disaster Recovery as a Service Buyer's Guide-5 must haves

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The Ultimate DRaaS Buyer’s Guide 5 Must Haves

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George Crumpe, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland

Contributor to the Buyer’s Guide

George Crumpe Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland

Contributor to the Buyer’s Guide

Who contributed to the Buyer’s Guide

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Top 5 Must Haves for Disaster Recovery as a Service Solutions

(DRaaS)

What the Buyer’s Guide Covers

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Self-Service RecoverySome providers require an email or call to initiate recovery and include manual steps, that are error prone. Push-button DRaaS puts control in your hands.

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Meet Your Organization’s Recovery ExpectationsPay attention to the time it takes from initiation of recovery to live and accessible applications

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Flexible RecoveryTo easily solve micro and macro disasters, you need to be able to boot from the appliance and the cloud. 

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Pass Enterprise Grade Recovery Litmus TestMany DRaaS providers can only recover virtual machines that have already been virtualized and are being backed up as virtual machines.  Use “concurrent (10+) VM boot” as a litmus test. 

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Costs That Are Simpler Than a Cell Phone BillLook for a pricing model that includes:1. Price per recovered server or application2. Cost or provision for a certain amount of testing per

year3. Associated costs to restore data 

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