{"id":7872,"date":"2013-06-20T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2708731"},"modified":"2013-06-20T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:37:00","slug":"is-raas-a-fancy-term-for-disaster-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/is-raas-a-fancy-term-for-disaster-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Is RaaS a Fancy Term for Disaster Recovery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recovery-as-a-Service, or \u201cRaaS\u201d, is the latest disaster recovery solution. Cloud-based RaaS allows organizations to recover their IT resources efficiently and effectively when an adverse situation strikes.<br \/>\nWhen compared to traditional disaster recovery solutions, RaaS is more easily tested, and offers more flexibility. Thanks to the economics of cloud computing, RaaS can offer comparable RTO and RPOs to warm-site DR solutions at nearly half the relative cost; while it matches cold-site costs but bests comparable RTO and RPOs by almost a full day.<br \/>\nThe key difference between RaaS and other legacy solutions isn\u2019t in the price or recovery time, rather it\u2019s in the way the technology functions. RaaS focuses on recovering the whole application, not just data. This allows companies to recover faster and more effectively after a declaration. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2708731\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recovery-as-a-Service, or &ldquo;RaaS&rdquo;, is the latest disaster recovery solution. Cloud-based RaaS allows organizations to recover their IT resources efficiently and effectively when an adverse situation strikes.<br \/>\nWhen compared to traditional disaster recovery solutions, RaaS is more easily tested, and offers more flexibility. Thanks to the economics of cloud computing, RaaS can offer comparable RTO and RPOs to warm-site DR solutions at nearly half the relative cost; while it matches cold-site costs but bests comparable RTO and RPOs by almost a full day.<br \/>\nThe key difference between RaaS and other legacy solutions isn&rsquo;t in the price or recovery time, rather it&rsquo;s in the way the technology functions. RaaS focuses on recovering the whole application, not just data. This allows companies to recover faster and more effectively after a declaration. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2708731\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}