The DRaaS market provides for the recovery of enterprise applications at another location in the event of a disaster. The provider can deliver the service as a fully managed, assisted recovery or as a self-service offering. The service should be marketed and sold as a stand-alone, industrialized offering and include, at a minimum: - An on-demand recovery cloud for planned tests, exercises and declarations - Server image and production data replication to the cloud - Automated failover and failback between production and the target cloud environment - Recovery time SLAs
A domain registrar is a company or organization that manages the reservation of internet domain names. Organizations use these services to create and maintain websites or to reserve domain names for future business opportunities. Accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) or national country code top-level domain (ccTLD) authorities, domain registrars allow individuals and businesses to register domain names for their websites and hosting. They provide tools to manage domain settings, such as DNS configuration, handle the renewal of domain names to ensure continued ownership, and facilitate the transfer of domain names between registrars. These services are used by large enterprises, web developers, E-commerce businesses, etc. Domain registrars provide features such as DNS management, protection for your domains, and 24x7 customer support.
Gartner defines strategic cloud platform services (SCPS) as standardized, automated, public cloud offerings integrating infrastructure services (e.g., computing, network and storage), platform services (e.g., application, data and value-added services such as AI/ML) and transformation services (resources to help customers adopt cloud-oriented IT delivery models). Although owned by the service provider, infrastructure and platform services may be hosted in providers’ infrastructures or customers’ data centers. Services should be elastically scalable, metered by use, and consumable via web-based interfaces and programmable APIs. Transformation programs may be delivered by automated, self-service interfaces, and managed interactions facilitated by account teams/partners.