Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offerings continue to expand across the United Kingdom. Among the latest examples: UKCloud has introduced Disaster Recovery to the Cloud, which is powered by Zerto.Disaster recovery remains a hot topic across many sectors. According to one survey, three out of four companies are in danger of failing to recover from a disaster or outage, while 70% of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) go out of business within a year of data loss.To address those risks, UKCloud says its DRaaS can:UKCloud focuses exclusively on the UK public sector and provides solution across multiple government networks, including the Public Services Network (PSN) and N3/Health and Social Care Network (HSCN). The UKCloud offering is particularly timely, especially as UK-based organizations weigh Brexit and seek to protect data locally.
- Replicate services and data from an existing data center to UKCloud, thereby ensuring public services can survive local IT failures or other disasters;
- Deliver business continuity and disaster recovery plans with recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) that meet individual customer requirements;
- Validate disaster recovery and business continuity plans, by safely simulating them without disrupting live workloads or risking loss of data
- Use a self-service portal to control their own recovery processes and self-restore entire applications from any point in the journal
