Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Never worry about recovering your data again.
Get a recovery plan that worksThree tiers. One goal: keep your business running.
Choose the deployment model that fits your environment, budget, and recovery requirements.
Shared DRaaS
Enterprise protection, shared cost
Cost-effective disaster recovery in a shared environment, ideal for businesses seeking enterprise-grade protection at a lower price point.
Dedicated DRaaS
Maximum performance & isolation
Isolated recovery environment for maximum performance, security, and compliance.
Hybrid DRaaS
Flexibility across every environment
Combine on-prem, private cloud, and public cloud resources for tailored resiliency and flexibility.
Optional Add-ons
Extend your deployment with additional capabilities from Summit’s broader service portfolio.
Most DR plans fail before they’re ever tested.
Legacy disaster recovery is expensive to maintain, complex to test, and built on assumptions that don’t hold up when something actually goes wrong.
Downtime is brutally expensive
Unplanned outages cost organizations millions — and that’s before you factor in reputational damage and compliance exposure.
Ransomware doesn’t negotiate
If your backups aren’t immutable and isolated, they’re as vulnerable as everything else. Recovery becomes a negotiation instead of a procedure.
Your IT team has other jobs
Maintaining a DR environment — keeping it tested, patched, and ready — takes dedicated resources most teams don’t have to spare.
Compliance doesn’t wait
HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS — regulators expect documented, tested recovery plans. A DR strategy that lives in someone’s head doesn’t qualify.
Legacy DR costs keep climbing
Secondary sites, licensing fees, hardware refresh cycles — traditional DR solutions carry hidden costs that only become clear when the invoice arrives.
Manual workflows break under pressure
Disaster recovery that depends on someone remembering the steps is a liability. Automation and runbooks exist for exactly this reason.
From incident to recovery in minutes.
Seconds-level RPO. Minutes-level RTO. Always-on replication means Summit is already ready before anything goes wrong.
Your VMs replicate in real time across hypervisor platforms to Summit’s recovery site — whether you’re on VMware, Hyper-V, or a hybrid mix. Every write is captured. Immutable, journal-based snapshots protect recovery points from ransomware and accidental deletion, giving you clean point-in-time restore options whenever you need them.
Summit’s monitoring catches the event — outage, ransomware, hardware failure — and opens an incident immediately. Pre-defined runbooks take over, removing the manual steps that slow most teams down. Compliance-ready documentation is captured throughout for HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI DSS requirements.
Automated failover brings applications back online at the click of a button — no scripting, no manual coordination. Scale-out architecture supports thousands of VMs across multi-site and hybrid environments, so even complex deployments recover in minutes, not hours.
While your workloads run at the recovery site, Summit’s system architects and administrators — not a help desk — work the primary site remediation. 24/7 access means someone who knows your environment is always on it. You get regular updates, not silence.
Once the primary site is restored and validated, Summit orchestrates the failback — cleanly, with no data loss. Full-scale annual failover and failback tests are included with every deployment so you know this process works before you ever need it for real.
DRaaS Datasheet
Disaster doesn’t stand a chance.
See exactly how Summit protects your workloads, what recovery looks like in practice, and what SLAs you can hold us to.
Fully managed, end to end.
Every Summit DRaaS deployment includes a full suite of managed services. There’s no base tier that leaves you managing the hard parts yourself.
Change Management
Controlled changes to your environment through a well-defined approval process. Workflows are designed and updated to your specifications by Summit engineers.
Incident Management
Pre-defined runbooks guide the remediation of every alarm and incident — consistent, repeatable, and fast.
Provisioning Management
Configure backup parameters and allocate resources on demand to keep pace with rapidly changing environments.
Patch Management
Infrastructure vendor updates and patches applied on a timely schedule with minimal impact to your environment.
Continuity Management
Full-scale annual failover and failback tests included — so you know your recovery plan actually works before you need it.
Monitoring & Reporting
Weekly or monthly reports on backup job status and storage utilization, backed by comprehensive health and performance monitoring.
If your data center is an office closet, then you have to ask, ‘What happens when the power goes out?’ Because it will. One of the many reasons we work with Summit is that they’re our answer to these questions.
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Common Questions
Everything you need to know before putting your recovery in our hands.
Managed Backup is designed for data protection and long-term recovery — restoring files, databases, or systems after loss. DRaaS is designed for business continuity — keeping your workloads running or recovering them in minutes after a major incident. Both are complementary, and Summit offers them together.
Summit DRaaS delivers seconds-level RPO and minutes-level RTO through continuous replication. Exact SLAs are scoped per application during onboarding — we don’t apply a one-size-fits-all target to environments with different criticality levels.
Immutable, journal-based backups protect recovery points from ransomware and accidental deletion. Point-in-time recovery lets you roll back to a clean state before the event — without paying a ransom or losing everything since your last good backup.
Summit DRaaS includes built-in support for HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI DSS. Recovery plans are regularly tested and validated, giving you documented evidence of compliance readiness — not just a policy document.
Yes. Summit operates 22+ data centers across 6 continents, and we’ll help you select a recovery site that meets your latency, regulatory, and geographic requirements. For multi-site environments, we can architect cross-region replication as part of your deployment.
Full-scale annual failover and failback tests are included with every Summit DRaaS deployment. We run the test, document the results, and give you a report. You get proof your plan works without pulling your team away from other priorities.
Build resilience into your operations.
Tell us about your environment and we’ll design a DRaaS solution around your recovery requirements.