Disaster Recovery Services

Every business should have a business continuity plan in place. Not an idea, but a well articulated and detailed course of action to ensure that their business can get through a disaster and continue on in the aftermath. This plan includes crisis management, business procedures/processes and work area management to name a few considerations.

Another important, yet often overlooked part of your business continuity plan is IT disaster recovery (DR). In broad terms, this is how you deal with and prevent IT downtime. Even if every other part of your business continuity plan is executed perfectly, you remain at a standstill if your IT systems go down and stay down. And the situation will only get worse as your revenue and reputation take a beating.

Remember, Disaster Recovery Isn't The Same As Disaster Prevention

There's a huge difference between disaster prevention and disaster recovery. Both are necessary. But the former only mitigates the risk of downtime. The latter makes sure if downtime happens you can actually get your IT back online quickly.

Rackspace DR Solutions Put Affordable & Reliable DR within Your Reach

Unless you're one of the few businesses in the world that has the money, data centers, hardware, networks, and expertise, in-house DR is difficult—if not impossible. When you do DR yourself, there are just too many technical complexities and too many compromises struck between minimizing downtime and controlling costs for DR to be reliable. Fortunately for businesses, Rackspace makes designing, deploying and managing a DR plan less painful—and more affordable.


Our Disaster Recovery Portfolio

Host Based Replication Services Geographically Diverse Replication for Your Mission-critical Server Data		Enterprise Replication Services Enterprise-class Array Based File and Block Level Replication
Replicates critical files between Rackspace DCs Support for physical & virtualized environments Team of certified Replication professionals deploy & support your solution		Rackspace DC-to-DC Replication for mission critical data stored on dedicated NAS (dNAS) and dedicated SAN (dSAN) devices dNAS to dNAS Replication powered by NetApp® NAS & SnapMirror® technologies dSAN to dSAN Replication powered by EMC® RPA technology Customized replication solutions Team of certified NAS and SAN Engineers to design, implement & manage your solution
Rackspace Professional Services Customized, Comprehensive Disaster Recovery Solutions
Application, database & full server failover DR Plan consulting & testing Active/passive failover or geographic load balancing Full support for off-site replication to customer managed data center Flexible RPO & RTO targets Team of certified DR engineers design, deploy & manage your solution
Unmetered Managed Backup Fully Managed Backup Service Protects Against Data Loss and Corruption
Off-site tape rotation Flexible backup schedules Unmetered model means no overages Backup Team sets up, configures & manages your solution and performs restores

Rackspace DR solutions are not one size fits all. They are designed for each customer's business, technical and budget needs. Just as important, they are fully managed—backups, data replication, application recovery, server recovery, assessments and DR plan testing are backed 24x7x365 by our expertise and Fanatical Support®.