Business continuity depends on how quickly you can recover when disaster strikes. In a 2025 report, 100% of business leaders surveyed reported losing revenue due to an outage in the past year, and over half (55%) experienced outages weekly.1 These events aren't rare scenarios – they're the new normal for today’s organizations.
That’s where disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) can help.
DRaaS is a cloud-based disaster recovery service that allows businesses to restore critical systems and data in the event of an outage or cyberattack. In this blog, we'll walk you through what DRaaS is, how it works, and why more companies are turning to managed disaster recovery services as part of their IT resilience strategy.
DRaaS is a subscription-based solution that replicates and hosts your IT environment – including servers, storage, applications, and data – in a secure cloud infrastructure. If something goes wrong with your primary systems, your organization can "failover" to the cloud environment and keep operations running with minimal downtime.
The main difference between DRaaS and traditional disaster recovery methods is that DRaaS doesn't rely on physical backups or secondary data centers. Instead, it uses virtualization and automation to deliver faster, more flexible recovery – without the headache of managing physical infrastructure yourself.
At CommQuotes, we connect businesses to top-rated cloud DRaaS providers that match your infrastructure, compliance requirements, and recovery goals, so you can rest easy with a trusted partner handling your disaster recovery processes.
Cloud-based DRaaS usually includes:
The best DRaaS solutions automate much of this process and offer predefined recovery playbooks to minimize manual intervention. That means less work for your team and more confidence that everything will work when you need it to.
DRaaS offers several advantages that help businesses prepare for anything, including:
Only 16% of businesses were able to fully recover from cyber attacks within a day in 2024.2 Traditional disaster recovery can take days or even weeks to bring systems back online. With DRaaS, failover happens in minutes or hours, which makes a huge difference when your business is down.
Since DRaaS solutions host everything in the cloud, there’s no need for physical infrastructure, manual intervention, or shipping drives offsite. You can initiate recovery from anywhere, at any time.
Your disaster recovery solution should grow with your business – and that’s where DRaaS shines.
DRaaS is a cloud-based disaster recovery service, so it can scale resources up or down as needed. Whether you’re expanding to new locations, onboarding new applications, or consolidating infrastructure, DRaaS adapts to your evolving environment.
At CommQuotes, we help you evaluate vendors based on your current and future workloads – so your DRaaS solution keeps pace with your business.
Security is a top focus for any disaster recovery solution. The best IT disaster recovery services offer:
Many DRaaS providers also integrate with your existing cyber security stack, giving you a unified view of risk across your infrastructure.
The costs of downtime can be staggering, with 90% of mid-size and large enterprises losing $300,000 on average during just one hour.3 DRaaS vendors typically offer aggressive Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) to minimize disruption:
DRaaS provides continuous replication and real-time failover to help you meet strict RTO and RPO requirements, keeping your data safe and your business online.
Building and maintaining your own disaster recovery infrastructure is expensive. From secondary data centers to hardware, software licenses, and skilled staff – the costs add up fast.
Managed disaster recovery services eliminate the need for capital investment. Instead, you pay a predictable monthly fee for a fully managed solution that includes hosting, replication, testing, and 24/7 support.
This model is especially attractive for small and midsize businesses that want enterprise-grade protection without the enterprise-sized budget.
Disaster recovery is complex, but you don’t have to do it alone.
Many organizations turn to managed disaster recovery services for hands-on help with the initial deployment and configuration, as well as:
CommQuotes simplifies the process of finding and vetting these providers. We’ll assess your environment, match you with the right DRaaS solution, and help manage the implementation end-to-end.
A disaster recovery plan is only as good as its last test. But manual DR tests are time-consuming, disruptive, and often skipped.
With DRaaS, testing is automated and non-disruptive. Many platforms allow you to run isolated test environments that simulate failover scenarios without impacting production systems. Regular testing helps you validate RTO and RPO targets, identify gaps in your recovery process, and train your team on DR procedures.
DRaaS isn’t just for large enterprises anymore. It’s a practical, affordable option for any business that needs to:
The right solution depends on your specific situation: your budget, your recovery time requirements, your compliance obligations, and your growth plans. That's where having expert guidance really helps.
Choosing a DRaaS provider can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. At CommQuotes, we help you move beyond the buzzwords and make more informed, cost-effective decisions.
Our VIP relationships with top providers mean you get agnostic recommendations, better-than-direct pricing, and reliable disaster recovery solutions that minimize downtime and data loss, regardless of your data size or complexity.
Let’s make sure you’re prepared for anything. Contact us today to find the best disaster recovery as a service provider for your business.
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