{"id":27100,"date":"2025-11-17T16:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.arvancloud.ir\/?p=27100"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:51:08","slug":"draas-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.arvancloud.ir\/en\/draas-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"How Arvancloud Supports Business Continuity During Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unexpected and destructive incidents can occur in various forms, and business losses are only one part of the broader picture of such events. Unforeseen infrastructural disruptions \u2014 such as natural disasters, power outages, cyberattacks, or human error \u2014 can damage the service delivery process of modern businesses. These disruptions may result in data loss, service downtime, operational failure, and user distrust.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cloud infrastructure providers, however, offer Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) through solutions such as data maintenance, backup, recovery, and protection against attacks \u2014 ensuring business continuity in times of crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, it seems that for any modern business, the question during a disaster is not only about network speed or server performance but also: \u201cDoes the business use an architecture suitable for disaster situations?\u201d Supporting this point, statistics indicate that by 2030, over 70% of global businesses and industries will have migrated to the cloud \u2014 leveraging its capabilities for disaster preparedness even before incidents occur.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Is Disaster Recovery (DR)?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Disaster Recovery (DR) is a process organizations use to swiftly resume normal operations following unexpected events such as floods, earthquakes, cyberattacks, or power outages. The main goal of DRaaS is to minimize downtime, protect critical data, and ensure business continuity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, the use of cloud infrastructure should be seen as part of a broader strategy for business continuity, customer trust, stability, and availability \u2014 not merely as a way to cut costs or increase profitability. Numerous reports highlight the impact of cloud infrastructure on business continuity during crises. For example, major cloud providers like Amazon (AWS) claim to protect up to 99% of user data during incidents. Yet beyond numbers, the key question remains: how does cloud infrastructure meet these needs in practice?<\/span><\/p>\n

How Arvancloud Infrastructure Ensures Business Continuity During Disasters?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Cloud service providers are defined by key attributes such as reliability, security, speed, and user experience improvement. Through a wide network of PoP sites and data centers located in high-traffic areas, they deliver secure and resilient infrastructure to businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

In essence, they act like digital couriers, connecting businesses and end users through stable and secure cloud communication \u2014 ensuring accessibility and service continuity during crises. Cloud providers typically include disaster preparedness solutions across all their products.<\/span><\/p>\n

So how exactly do Arvancloud\u2019s products support business continuity (DRaaS<\/a>) during incidents?<\/span><\/p>\n

Arvancloud\u2019s multi-region architecture, for instance, stores backup copies in geographically distinct locations, preventing data loss within a single zone or region. Continuous testing and monitoring tools (Active Health Checks) built into all cloud products allow users to track and report service performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Snapshot feature provides real-time backups of virtual machines and databases \u2014 crucial for disaster readiness. Meanwhile, Arvancloud\u2019s CDN protects against DDoS attacks and other threats with firewall and mitigation services. Post-incident, intelligent AI-driven recovery tools assist in data restoration and service reactivation.<\/span><\/p>\n

These solutions are integrated across Arvancloud\u2019s products \u2014 whether users operate virtual servers, managed databases, cloud storage, VOD platforms, or containers. Multi-region availability, data recovery, and attack prevention are all core services of Arvancloud.<\/span><\/p>\n

Importantly, the Disaster Recovery cycle not only ensures business continuity but also achieves cost efficiency \u2014 as businesses avoid expenses associated with maintaining and operating their own physical infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Key Time-Related Concepts in Disaster Recovery<\/span><\/h2>\n

Before introducing some of the DRaaS concepts, two important time-related keywords in the Disaster Recovery chain must be explained:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. RTO (Recovery Time Objective)<\/span><\/h3>\n

The amount of time a service can remain down during a disaster without causing major business impact. According to ITIC, one hour of downtime costs businesses over $100,000. Another report estimates the cost per hour of downtime between $1\u20135 million \u2014 emphasizing the importance of reducing RTO.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. RPO (Recovery Point Objective):<\/span><\/h3>\n

The amount of data that can be lost during a disaster without significant business impact. A Veeam report shows that 77% of organizations consider an RPO of less than one hour ideal.<\/span><\/p>\n

How does Arvancloud address these challenges? Through automated failover processes and robust backups, Arvancloud achieves RTO within minutes and RPO within seconds, helping businesses maintain operations during crises.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Three Phases of Business Continuity (DRaaS)\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

This continuity is achievable through various cloud products and solutions across three phases \u2014 before, during, and after the incident \u2014 as outlined below:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Before a Disaster<\/span><\/h3>\n