After announcing the availability of its backup as a service offering (BaaS), Cohesity, a data management solutions provider announces the general availability of its next “as a service” offering – disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). This new offering extends the disaster recovery (DR) capabilities provided by Cohesity SiteContinuity and adds the ability to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a recovery location for failover and failback in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model.

Matt Waxman, Vice President of Product Management at Cohesity says, “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 organizations recover quickly and cost-effectively.”

An official release of Cohesity states, the following benefits of using DRaaS:

Minimize downtime and data loss: Reduces the risks of potential downtime and data loss with snapshot-based backup and near-sync replication that together help ensure all data is captured and ready to failover in the event of disaster or cyberattack

Meet service level agreements (SLAs): Customers can easily design recovery plans and assign SLAs

Simplify operations: Cohesity uniquely combines disaster recovery orchestration, snapshot-based backup, near-sync replication, and seamless failover to the public cloud in a single comprehensive offering

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. Cohesity uniquely supports standard AWS infrastructure, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), in a DRaaS model.