KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe: Wanclouds Multi-Cloud DR-as-a-Service

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021, Wanclouds, Inc. announced the launch of its multi-cloud DR-as-a-Service.

The DRaaS reduces the financial investment and technical complexities that often halt or delay businesses from setting up DR protections and ensuring compliance requirements as extreme weather and cybersecurity risks increasingly threaten BC. A recent report from the Uptime Institute found that 75% of enterprise IT managers and data center operators have experienced an IT service outage or downtime incident within the past 3 years.

DRaaS is a reimagined approach to traditional DR strategies and eliminates the barriers for businesses seeking affordable, reliable, and compliant DR approaches. By offering DRaaS, it manages on-demand cloud backups for the servers or clusters businesses need and restores them instantly when needed. Instead of needing to allocate millions upfront to build and sustain DR infrastructure, companies can pay a fraction of the cost monthly for protecting their current servers and clusters.

“As skyrocketing climate and cybersecurity risks make business leaders refocus on organizational resiliency and minimizing downtime, enterprises of all sizes are looking for off-premise ways to implement DR,” said Faiz Khan, CEO, Wanclouds. “Unfortunately, small and midsized enterprises have been historically underserved by legacy DR options that are cost-prohibitive and resource-intensive. Wanclouds DR as a service gives every organization a simple and effective DR option in the cloud that protects mission-critical data, lowers costs, alleviates time-consuming management, and provides instant scalability.“

The company’s DRaaS is enabled through its SaaS-based automation suite VPC+, which provides a single pane of glass for managing and protecting multi-cloud environments through a centralized cross-cloud solution. The firm’s customers can leverage VPC+ for DR to backup their entire virtual private cloud (VPC) resources, including network, compute, storage, as well as, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS) and OpenShift clusters. They can then restore it across different regions and other clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud.

Features of firm’s Multi-Cloud DR-as-a-Service include:

• Instant implementation of DR via few simple clicks

• Infrastrastructure-wide snapshots that can be restored on-demand

• Flexibility to schedule backups on any timeline for VPC and network functions, Kubernetes deployments, Linux servers, and critical data

• Ability to recreate environments on multiple clouds and regions from backed up clusters

• Visualize infrastructure design and track consumptions

• On-demand views of DR spend with detailed consumption reports

The DRaaS currently supports IBM Cloud IKS and OpenShift, Google Cloud VPCs and GKE, AWS VPCs and EKS, as well as Linux clusters on-premise or in clouds and will be adding support for Azure Cloud soon.

About Wanclouds
It is a provider of multi-cloud SaaS, solution, and MSP. It helps enterprises with cloud deployments, migrations, and protecting their cloud infrastructure in time and cost-efficient ways. The company’s cloud Migration-as-a-Service and DRaaS reduce the financial investment and remove the technical complexities that halt or delay businesses from migrating on-premise to the cloud, moving across clouds, or setting up backup and restore protection. Its SaaS-based automation suite VPC+ provides a single pane of glass for managing and protecting multi-cloud environments through a centralized cross-cloud solution. Wanclouds is an AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud partner and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.