Databarracks' DRaaS pricing and utilisation model

It wasn't that long ago that disaster recovery (DR) was a rich man's game. Many organisations were priced out of traditional DR because it meant you needed to invest in a duplicate set of expensive hardware for your secondary site. It didn't account for the peaks and troughs that true disaster recovery should.

Cue cloud computing. With cloud-based disaster recovery you can scale your resources up or down depending on when you need them. So, for the most part, you'll need fairly standard levels of storage and compute. If you need to perform some DR testing, for example, you'd simple scale up for those few hours. The same goes for a live DR situation – you can scale up for as long as you need to and back down again once you've failed back over to your primary site. The benefits of this are obvious – you only ever pay for what you use.

Databarracks' Pay-As-You-Go DR pricing model is especially unique, as it is based on the amount of storage, connectivity and compute you use. So your business-as-usual operations are charged at a fixed cost (meaning that the majority of the time you'll be saving up to 70% compared to traditional DR) but with the ability to scale up almost instantly, as and when you need to.

Cloud computing has meant that disaster recovery no longer has to be considered a luxury. The flexibility of a cloud service means that with careful DR planning, even the smallest of organisations can be protected. If you want to discuss your DR options, we're always available to talk. In the meantime, we got Databarracks' Johan Holder to run you through our basic pricing model. Watch him here:

 

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