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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service

Published: 12 July 2018

Summary

The disaster-recovery-as-a-service market consists of hundreds of providers, all with different approaches and capabilities. This creates immense complexity around vendor selection. Infrastructure and operations leaders should use this Magic Quadrant to help evaluate providers of DRaaS.

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Market Definition/Description

Gartner defines the disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) market as a productized service offering in which the provider manages server image and production data replication to the cloud, disaster recovery run book creation, automated server recovery within the cloud, automated server failback from the cloud, and network element and functionality configuration, as needed. Source servers supported must include a combination of both virtual and physical. To be considered DRaaS versus other options that enable do-it-yourself recovery, all elements of the service must be included in the service offering contract between the provider and customer, and offer a standardized

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  • Current Market
  • Key Differences in This Year's Magic Quadrant
    • Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
    • Value of Heterogeneous Platform Support
  • Vendor Strengths and Cautions
    • Bluelock
    • C&W Business
    • CloudHPT
    • Expedient
    • IBM
    • iland
    • Microsoft
    • Recovery Point
    • Sungard Availability Services
    • TierPoint
  • Vendors Added and Dropped
    • Added
    • Dropped
  • Notable Vendors
  • Ability to Execute
  • Completeness of Vision
  • Quadrant Descriptions
    • Leaders
    • Challengers
    • Visionaries
    • Niche Players

Analysts:

Mark Jaggers,  Ron Blair

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