BRACED: Improve Your Business Continuity Strategy with Chaos-driven DRaaS

Overview

Resilience Reinvented: Leverage the BRACED Approach to Continuous Business Operations

Maintaining seamless operations during unfavorable circumstances demands more than traditional recovery solutions. BRACED (Business Resilience through Advanced Chaos Engineering and DRaaS) is an advanced, proactive model that ensures your IT systems, applications, and data remain available. The unique combination of Chaos Engineering with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) assesses your hybrid cloud environment, uncovers vulnerabilities, and enhances your organization’s ability to withstand and recover from disruptions.  This comprehensive, cost-effective, and scalable approach empowers businesses to mitigate risks, minimize downtime, and safeguard operations, providing a reassuring solution for their business continuity needs.

Reasons

Why Choose the BRACED Model?

Gain the confidence to anticipate disruptions, manage risks proactively, and ensure business resilience with our Chaos Engineering integrated DRaaS model. In a world where downtime can lead to significant financial losses and reputational damage, the BRACED model provides a forward-thinking, reliable solution to keep your business operational through any unexpected crisis.

Proactive Risk Mitigation

With chaos engineering practices, we intentionally introduce faults and disruptions in a controlled environment, helping businesses identify and address potential vulnerabilities before they become critical.

Disaster Preparedness

By integrating Chaos Engineering with DRaaS, we provide a comprehensive approach to disaster preparedness. This proactive strategy ensures your IT systems are ready to withstand unforeseen challenges.

Quick Recovery

In the event of a disruption, DRaaS ensures that your data and applications are quickly recovered with automatic failover and switchback capabilities, minimizing downtime.

Operational Continuity

We enable businesses to maintain continuous operations, even during adverse circumstances, ensuring protection for IT systems and bottom lines.

Continuous Improvement

Regular chaos experiments provide insights for ongoing optimization of recovery strategies. This continuous improvement ensures that disaster recovery plans evolve and remain effective.

Comprehensive Coverage

Our solution is designed to provide complete protection for your entire IT infrastructure, ensuring that everything from cloud-native applications to on-premises systems is covered.

Cost Efficiency

Our cloud-based solutions eliminate the high costs of maintaining on-premises disaster recovery infrastructure, offering scalable services that deliver robust capabilities without hefty upfront investments.

Regulatory Compliance

Regular testing of disaster recovery plans ensures adherence to industry compliance standards, helping businesses meet regulatory requirements and avoid potential penalties.

Key Features

Features that Set Our Chaos Engineering Driven DRaaS Apart

Our solution employs continuous fault injection and automated resilience testing to ensure that data is consistently safeguarded across all environments. This proactive approach detects potential vulnerabilities in real-time, preventing data loss and ensuring business resilience against disruptions.

Unlike traditional testing methodologies that are static, scheduled and scenario-based, the BRACED model uses dynamic testing methodologies to ensure that systems are constantly monitored and tested under varying conditions, providing a more accurate reflection of their resilience in real-world failure scenarios.

We integrate proactive resilience engineering into every aspect of your infrastructure, continuously evolving your systems to handle emerging risks. Our model doesn’t wait for failure; it actively seeks out weaknesses and strengthens them, so your business is always prepared for the unexpected.

Our solution features near-zero Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO), which helps with real-time recovery of systems and data with minimal downtime. Leveraging BRACED Framework, we simulate failures to rigorously test if the DR strategy meets the defined RTO and RPO.

Using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and self-healing technologies, the entire disaster recovery process is automated. This eliminates manual intervention, ensuring that your systems can autonomously detect and recover from failures.

Our Chaos Engineering Driven DRaaS is designed to cover both foreseen and unforeseen failure scenarios. It introduces controlled failures, such as terminating instances, adding latency, and simulating region failures, to continuously inject faults into your systems while utilizing real-time monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana to capture system behavior during these tests.

Whether you’re operating in a single data center or across distributed, multi-cloud environments, our Chaos Engineering Integrated DRaaS model is highly scalable and adaptable. This flexibility allows you to grow and evolve without compromising on resilience or performance.

Designed to function with minimal human intervention, our model prioritizes autonomous operations. With automated fault injection and orchestrated disaster recovery, human involvement is kept to a minimum, which reduces the risk of errors.

Success Stories

Enhanced System Resilience and Reduced MTTR for a Large E-commerce Platform’s Microservices Architecture through Chaos Engineering

R Systems implemented Chaos Engineering practices for a leading e-commerce platform to address service disruptions in its complex Kubernetes-based microservices architecture.

The team ran controlled fault injection experiments using tools like LitmusChaos and Chaos Mesh to expose weaknesses and validate recovery processes in real-time.

This proactive approach significantly improved platform reliability reduced Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), and ensured high availability, safeguarding the user experience during unexpected disruptions.

Implementation of Chaos Engineering Transformed a Fleet Management System: Increased Fault Tolerance and Reduced Downtime

R Systems integrated Chaos Engineering practices into the DevOps pipeline of a leading fleet management platform. Using Chaos Mesh, we introduced controlled chaos to effectively test the platform's resilience against various failure scenarios, including network outages, service crashes, and resource exhaustion.

This approach significantly improved fault tolerance, reduced downtime, and enhanced scalability and performance, leading to substantial cost savings in maintenance through early vulnerability detection.

With automated recovery mechanisms and enhanced observability, the system handles unpredictable failures efficiently, ensuring reliable operations for logistics and transportation companies.

A Data & Storage Management Provider Achieves 60% Deployment Time Reduction and Significant Downtime Decrease with IaC and Chaos Engineering Implementation

R Systems partnered with a leading data management and storage solutions provider to address significant operational challenges, including manual infrastructure management, scalability limitations, and insufficient visibility into failure scenarios.

We implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, reducing deployment times by 60%, and introduced Chaos Engineering with the integration of Chaos Mesh, which led to a significant reduction in downtime.

Cloud migration using AWS and Azure tools ensured a seamless transition while lowering infrastructure costs. The Client plans to further continue optimizing their cloud infrastructure and exploring additional automation opportunities.