🌉 California Risk Context: The San Francisco Bay Area sits at the intersection of multiple active fault systems. USGS estimates a 72% probability of a major earthquake (M6.7+) within the next 30 years. California businesses must have tested, cloud-based disaster recovery — a local hot site is not enough.
Why Traditional Disaster Recovery Fails
Traditional DR approaches — backup tapes, cold standby servers, manual failover procedures — consistently fail when tested in real disaster scenarios. The reasons are predictable: backup tapes that haven't been verified, cold standby servers that aren't current, documented procedures that no one has practiced, and recovery processes that take 5–7 days when businesses need systems in hours.
NexCore's DRaaS eliminates these failure points with continuous replication, automated orchestrated failover, cloud-hosted recovery infrastructure, and quarterly tested recovery procedures that verify actual recoverability — not theoretical recoverability.
DRaaS Solution Architecture
Continuous Data Replication
NexCore deploys replication agents on every protected server — physical or virtual — that continuously stream changes to our cloud-hosted DR environment. Unlike backup-based DR that protects only to the last backup job, continuous replication achieves RPOs of seconds to minutes for the most critical systems. We use Zerto, Veeam Cloud Connect, and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery depending on your environment.
Cloud-Hosted Recovery Infrastructure
Your recovery environment runs in our managed cloud infrastructure hosted across two geographically separate data centers. All necessary compute, storage, and networking resources are pre-provisioned and continuously tested — so failover triggers in minutes, not hours of manual infrastructure provisioning.
Automated Failover Orchestration
NexCore creates custom failover runbooks for your environment that automate the sequence of recovery actions — starting systems in the right order, updating DNS, re-pointing applications, and verifying service availability. This orchestration reduces human error and ensures consistent, repeatable failover whether triggered by an engineer or automated by monitoring systems.
Business Continuity Planning
Technical DR is only part of business continuity. NexCore also provides business continuity planning (BCP) consulting that addresses the full scope of operational resilience:
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA) identifying critical systems and recovery priorities
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) definition by application tier
- Documented runbooks for common disaster scenarios (ransomware, fire, earthquake, power loss)
- Employee remote work readiness assessment and implementation
- Crisis communication plan and notification tree
- Regulatory notification requirements mapped to your industry (HIPAA, FINRA, etc.)
- Insurance documentation support for cyber liability and business interruption claims
Quarterly DR Testing
NexCore conducts documented quarterly DR tests for all DRaaS clients. Tests include full failover of production workloads to the cloud recovery environment, user access validation, application functionality testing, and performance benchmarking — without impacting your production environment. You receive a detailed test report for compliance auditors and cyber insurance providers.