There was a time when only large corporations worried about disasters and developed disaster recovery (DR) plans. But those days are long gone. Whether your business is a global organization or a five-person shop, developing a company disaster recovery plan is a must.  If you work for a small-to-medium-sized business (SMB), you are probably wondering how your organization can afford the talent, time, and budget to develop and execute a DR plan. Read on and discover how.

Many organizations, including some of your clients, do not believe they need a disaster recovery (DR) solution because they already have backups – but this is a dangerous assumption. While backing up their systems protects their data, backup alone will not help your clients recover their data in the event of a disaster.

As a managed service provider (MSP), you offer your clients a variety of IT resources to remotely manage part or all of their IT infrastructures, which can include managing their operating systems, applications, databases, networks, endpoints, as well as ensuring security, compliance, and backup. Many organizations will buy your services because it is a less expensive option or, more importantly, because you bring the right tools, expertise, and best practices to support more complex, mission-critical IT functions.

Site Recovery is an Azure disaster recovery (DR) solution that replicates workloads running on your Windows/Linux servers or VMware/Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) into Azure and orchestrates failover and failback events when a disaster happens. Replicating to Azure eliminates the costs and complexity of maintaining a secondary data center and includes the ability to: