Disaster recovery (DR) software solutions help businesses quickly and efficiently recover software, settings, and data to an as-before state in the event of computer, server, or other infrastructure failure. Unlike disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), where a third party manages all aspects of recovery, standard DR software lets a business directly dictate its recovery. Any infrastructure teams—whether managing servers, virtual machines, databases, or other infrastructure—would, and should, utilize disaster recovery in some way.
Disaster recovery products are part of a larger ecosystem of DR solutions (e.g., backup software, DLP software, DRaaS, etc.) which explicitly focus on building, enforcing, and preserving data and infrastructure resilience. Particularly with digitally focused businesses, disaster recovery is a key component of ensuring functions and services are always available.
To qualify for inclusion in the Disaster Recovery category, a product must:
Provide failover and recovery capabilities for on-premises and/or cloud data
Allow businesses to locally manage what, how, and where data and systems are restored
Provide both manual and automatic recovery capabilities
Recover systems and infrastructure to a like state as before failure
Be compatible with a variety of on-premises, cloud, and/or virtual infrastructure
Integrate with other management, resilience, and backup solutions
