Cove Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
Cove Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
The reality of the “When” and not “If”
While most organizations plan for growth, few plan for disruption. The statistics reveal a dangerous overconfidence in the SMB market:
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Only 26% of small businesses have an actual disaster plan in place, despite most believing they are ready.
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Recovery Reality: About 34% of businesses affected by a disaster take six months or more to recover.
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The Fatal Risk: According to FEMA, 40% of small businesses that experience a disaster never reopen their doors. ¹
Why traditional Disaster recovery fails
Organizations often bypass traditional disaster recovery because they view it as a costly infrastructure burden rather than a guaranteed business outcome. Traditional setups are often static and fail to evolve with the business.
Companies are forced to invest in secondary hardware that sits idle, waiting for a disaster that may never happen. Manually designing and testing recovery plans is labor-intensive and requires specialized expertise.
"Recovery Outcomes, Not Projects"
N-able Cove Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is currently in Public Preview, offering a cloud-first approach to business continuity. It moves beyond simple off-site backup by providing a standby infrastructure capable of spinning virtual machines (VMs) in the N-able cloud when your primary site fails.
1. The co-managed advantage
Cove DRaaS is co-managed; it handles the heavy lifting of infrastructure management, so your engineers don't have to. N-able owns the burden of maintaining and securing the DR site, while your team stays in control of the strategy, client workloads, and the failover trigger. You get the premium service revenue without the backend overhead.
2. Predictable economics
Cove DRaaS removes the financial unpredictability of disaster recovery; moving from a spike-based usage model to a flat per-device subscription. This allows MSP-s to offer DR as a high-margin premium service with total pricing certainty.
3. Trust through automation
A disaster plan is not there until it’s tested. Cove DRaaS includes Automated Recovery Testing, which validates that workloads are bootable in the cloud without requiring manual intervention.
Summary:
Cove DRaaS is designed for organizations that want recovery outcomes, not infrastructure projects. It bridges the gap between the 26% of businesses with a plan and the 100% that need one by making recovery simpler and more predictable. It allows MSPs to capture the massive unprotected market by replacing technical complexity with a predictable, co-managed model that is easy to deploy and even easier to monetize.
Important: Public Preview Status
Cove DRaaS is currently in Public Preview (v26.4), which is free for up to five devices until July 2026, after which active devices will automatically convert to the paid tier. During this phase, only partial failover is supported, requiring a functioning on-premises site to host the mandatory VPN appliance for connectivity. Also, there is currently no direct VM login via the console, and the failover session timer remains active until officially stopped, regardless of the VM’s power state.