Among the main solutions that exist in the vast world of cloud computing is the Private Cloud, a solution that is increasingly adopted by more and more companies looking for exclusive and secure hosting of their data, systems and applications. One of the most important features for a private cloud must be security, as they typically host their most critical workloads and not having a backup or disaster recovery plan in place can be a failure for the organisation. In the Tecsens Private Cloud we have a difference with other private environments, we include BaaS and DRaaS in your private cloud.
Why is BaaS and DRaaS important in your Private Cloud?
Both BaaS and DRaaS are important for the security of data and applications in the cloud, so they are essential for a Private Cloud environment, we tell you why and what factors each of them includes.
First of all, it is essential to understand the purpose of each one of them and that is why we must be clear about what a Private Cloud is for and what is hosted in it. As mentioned before, a Private Cloud hosts all the information systems and applications of a company, including the most critical ones.
This is where we analyse the differences between a BaaS and a DRaaS and their main role:
The functionality or protection that a BaaS is oriented towards is to make backup copies both on a local data device (databases, application development, source code, images, etc.), and in the cloud, which means that in the event of loss, a specific copy can be restored from the place where the backup is located to its original location, in this case the private cloud.
The main functionality and protection of DRaaS is oriented towards complete workloads, i.e. a company’s applications (application servers, virtual desktop systems, etc.) that are hosted in the Private Cloud.
On the other hand, the second thing to take into account to understand the importance of BaaS and DRaaS in a Private Cloud is the response times (RPO and RTO):
-Recovery Point Objective (RPO): This is the amount of data that can be “lost” from the time a disaster occurs until the last available backup (BaaS) is recovered before a company’s business is affected.
-RTO (Recovery Time Objective):This is the time it takes to restore the activity of a company’s applications and systems from the moment a disaster occurs until it is available to users again.
Comparing both parameters it is clear that RPO is directly related to BaaS and RTO to DRaaS. This is why having both solutions in a private cloud is so important for the security and availability of the private cloud, as it is an environment that combines data and applications.