The evolving business climate has key factors that impact a very fundamental use case -Disaster Recovery (DR) services.  Regardless of region or market, you have increases in cyber threats, continued evolution of regulations and compliance, and the financial impact of service disruptions.  Therefore, applications and services simply need to be protected and recoverable without the nuances of wondering ‘does it work?’, ‘have we tested it?’, or ‘how long will it take to recover?’

Service Provider - Powered-by Nutanix DR Solutions

Nutanix’s model for DR is flexible to meet any customer’s needs.  Whether you are hosting services in your own data center, co-location, public cloud, or one of our service provider partners, you have many choices to get the outcome you need.  Further, our platform provides a unified management plane with powerful automation and orchestration such that end customers can manage their own DR services and/or have service providers extend those services.  When considering DR, additional examination for design, deployment, management, and overall infrastructure needs to be included. 

These factors along with your overall business objectives add further complexity, constraint, and overall burden.  Nutanix Service Providers offer many IaaS options to reduce infrastructure cost, simplify and accelerate deployment, and, fundamentally, extract the technology and focus on customers’ business objectives and outcomes.

Service Providers offer IaaS products for DR powered-by Nutanix such as:

• Storage-only protection with multi-cloud snapshot technology (MST)
• DRaaS with dedicated infrastructure
• DRaaS with pilot-light infrastructure
• Multi-cloud Snapshot Technology (MST) with pilot-light and on-demand infrastructure

Storage-only DRaaS with MST

A storage-only offering to meet basic protection objectives as an entry-level offering with a ‘best effort’ level commitment for RTO.

DRaaS with dedicated infrastructure

Dedicated target infrastructure per tenant meeting the most stringent RPO and RTO objectives.

DRaaS with pilot-light Infrastructure

Minimal target infrastructure with ability to burst resources to meet a combination of both commercial and business objectives.

DRaaS with MST, pilot-light or on-demand Infrastructure

Combines multiple powered-by Nutanix products where service providers can package multiple services to meet the end customers commercial and business objectives.

Many service providers will package one or more of the DR products above into a service offering.  Ultimately, the goal is to provide end customers the ability to meet their recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) objectives.  In all, service providers can offer proven designs around Nutanix’s technology helping customers both reduce their cost and meet their objectives.  Some key partner feedback includes:

Nutanix DR weaves replication and recovery management into Prism Central, creating an ideal foundation for Expedient's DRaaS. Because the core functionality is intuitive and automated, we (Expedient) can focus on helping you integrate everything else: network, security, compliance, application dependencies, and continuous testing—without disrupting your team or pulling them off business‑critical work.

More than a checkbox, our service keeps your DR posture living and breathing so it performs when you need it. Compared with a DIY second site, the combined Nutanix + Expedient model lowers total cost of ownership, converts CapEx into flexible OpEx, and scales only when needed—delivering true financial agility well beyond the raw dollars and cents. Let us worry about disasters so you can focus on running your business

Sam Larson, Principal Technologist, Expedient

Nutanix DR has been a vital tool in delivering the mission-critical recovery services our customers rely on.  The recent evolution of the platform—now supporting the ability to send recovery points to off-cluster storage services—marks a major milestone. This enhancement introduces new recovery tiers and delivers greater flexibility, all while optimizing for cost-efficiency.

John Hein, Sales Specialist, Cloud Services, US Signal

Our Hosted Nutanix DR service is a simple and highly effective solution for customers looking to protect their critical workloads. Our customers love that there are no new technologies to learn or unfamiliar interfaces to navigate—everything is managed through the same Nutanix environment they already know and trust.  This allows Assured Data Protection to deliver robust resilience with a user experience that feels effortless.

One of the standout features our customers value most is the ability to carry out Disaster Recovery testing and failover whenever they choose. Because the DR environment is always available, they can perform unlimited testing without scheduling constraints or added costs, giving them complete confidence in their recovery strategy.

Stew Parkin, Chief Technology Officer, Assured Data Protection

Nutanix makes disaster recovery refreshingly simple. When combined with the managed services we provide, our clients gain a seamless, highly automated DR solution that delivers confidence without complexity. From rapid recovery to effortless orchestration, Nutanix enables us to focus on outcomes instead of infrastructure. It’s everything disaster recovery should be—fast, reliable, and easy.

Brian Clark, Chief Architect and Technology Officer, Xentegra

Why DR services with Service Providers

With service providers, there are additional service-based factors and considerations to make.  In most cases, the decision to select a service provider can simply be based on one or more of the following outcomes:

• Focus on business objectives vs technical outcomes
• Financial costs such as Capex avoidance, flexible pricing, lower TCO
• Expertise from accelerated implementations, SLAs, compliance documentation, and testing / failover
• Data center and / or co-location consolidation or reach
• IaaS based DRaaS or a full suite of managed service offerings

Conclusions

Disasters around your infrastructure occur and Nutanix provides an integrated, powerful platform for DR.  Nutanix service providers have highly skilled staff which can not only offer infrastructure services but also offer additional services to make sure you meet your business objectives.  In all, DR with Nutanix service providers can be easier, faster, and lower your total cost of ownership.

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For questions, please reach out to serviceproviders@nutanix.com.

If you're attending our annual user conference .Next 2025, please attend our partner session titled The Essential Guide to Nutanix DRaaS: How to Easily Safeguard your Organization without Compromising Control.

To find a service provider who can offer DRaaS, please visit our partner locator.