Protect Your Business Data and Recover Faster When It Matters
Cloud backup and disaster recovery eliminates the capital expense of secondary DR infrastructure — using cloud economics to provide enterprise-grade data protection that scales with your environment and meets the RTO/RPO requirements of every workload tier.
What RLM Delivers on Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery
Every minute of downtime and every MB of data lost has a business cost. RLM designs backup and DR architectures that meet your recovery objectives at the lowest possible cost — and helps you select and implement the solutions that deliver on their promises.
How We Approach Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery
Our cloud advisory runs from discovery and market evaluation through vendor selection and post-deployment optimization — scoped to the Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery decision in front of you.
RTO/RPO Requirements & Workload Tiering
We work with your business stakeholders to define RTO and RPO requirements by workload tier — mission-critical, business-important, and standard — creating the recovery objective framework that drives all backup and DR design decisions.
Backup Architecture Design
We design the backup architecture — agent-based vs. agentless, incremental vs. full, cloud-native backup services vs. third-party platforms — that meets your recovery objectives and retention requirements at optimal cost.
DR Platform Evaluation
We evaluate DR platforms — Zerto, Veeam, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Azure Site Recovery, Commvault — against your workload types, RTO requirements, and target cloud environment.
DR Testing & Validation Design
DR that has never been tested is not DR — it's a hypothesis. We design the DR test program — scheduled failover tests, chaos engineering, and recovery documentation — that validates your DR capability before you need it.
Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery Evaluation Criteria
The questions below are the ones that decide whether a Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery investment pays back — and the ones vendors are least eager to answer.
RTO vs. Cost Trade-off
Active-active DR provides near-zero RTO but at near-double infrastructure cost. Pilot light, warm standby, and cold standby reduce cost at the expense of recovery time. Match the DR tier to the business impact of each workload.
RPO Granularity
Backup windows that run hourly vs. daily vs. weekly determine your maximum data loss exposure. Evaluate continuous data protection (CDP) for workloads with tight RPO requirements.
Recovery Testing Frequency
DR platforms that haven't been tested recently may fail when needed. Evaluate the test automation capabilities and the operational burden of maintaining a regular test cadence.
Cross-Region & Cross-Cloud DR
Single-cloud DR doesn't protect against cloud provider regional outages or provider-level incidents. Evaluate cross-region and cross-cloud DR requirements for your most critical workloads.
Ransomware Recovery
Ransomware attacks target backup infrastructure. Evaluate immutable backup capabilities, offline copy retention, and recovery time from immutable backups — not just standard recovery scenarios.
Application-Consistent Recovery
Crash-consistent backups don't guarantee application consistency for databases and clustered applications. Evaluate application-consistent snapshot support for every tier of your application stack.
"RLM helped us rationalize our multi-cloud spend and identify over $1.2M in annual savings. Their approach was methodical and unbiased — exactly what we needed."
The benchmark comes first. Without a baseline, “savings” is just a number a vendor gave you.
Where This Matters Most
Sector-specific considerations we see repeatedly in cloud and managed services engagements.
A Sample of the Cloud & Managed Services Providers We Evaluate
RLM is vendor neutral. These are among 600+ providers in our evaluation set — inclusion here is not an endorsement, and we are paid by the provider you choose, not by any provider in particular. How that works →
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