News published by: https://www.gartner.com/
Gartner defines disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) as a service offering that includes replication of server workloads and recovery of such workloads, as needed, to a cloud with which the provider ultimately has fiscal responsibility. The service may be fully managed or self-service; replication and recovery may be high-touch or automated via software; and the target location and cloud infrastructure with which the workloads are replicated and recovered may be owned by the provider or a third party, such as a hyperscale public cloud provider. The key differentiating service attribute is that all elements must be included in the offering.
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Current Market
As stated in the 2016 iteration of this Magic Quadrant, DRaaS is now a mainstream offering. In fact, Gartner estimates it to be a $2.02 billion business currently, and it is expected to reach $3.73 billion by 2021. Yet, just because it is mainstream does not make it less complex for potential customers to choose which offering is best for them.
Assessing the complexity of the DRaaS market starts with the number of providers in this space. If one merely looks at the number of “cloud partners” of commonly used replication products used by DRaaS providers (such as Zerto, Veeam, Carbonite DoubleTake, Asigra, Acronis and StorageCraft) as a proxy to determine the number of DRaaS providers, the number of providers is well north of 500. Zerto alone has over 300 cloud partners using its products for recovery.
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