Disruptions can start in many ways: a critical infrastructure failure takes production systems offline, ransomware makes an environment unsafe to operate, a network or utility outage isolates a facility, or a regional event makes the primary site unavailable. What turns these moments into real disasters is what happens next. Without a tested recovery plan, teams end up improvising under pressure, trying to rebuild systems while the business is already losing revenue, missing SLAs, or falling out of compliance.
The causes tend to fall into a few buckets. Critical infrastructure failure, where multiple systems or core components fail and production workloads can no longer operate normally. Cyber incidents, such as ransomware, that make the production environment unsafe or unavailable and may also put backup data at risk. Network or utility outages, where connectivity or power loss isolates a facility from users and dependent systems. And regional or site-level events, where a production location becomes unavailable for hours, days, or longer.
Each of these has a different failure signature, but they all lead to the same question: how fast can the business come back, and how much does that speed cost?
You need a disaster recovery plan that actually holds up when the pressure is on, not one that only looks good on paper. That’s why Ark Disaster Recovery is built the way it is.
Ark Disaster Recovery is a portfolio of managed recovery services designed to restore critical workloads and business operations after disruption. Rather than applying one recovery model to every workload, Ark aligns each system to its own importance, required recovery speed, and budget. Mission critical systems get the fastest, most certain recovery. Everything else stays protected in a way that’s cost effective rather than overbuilt.
At its core, this approach brings the same discipline and accountability Ark applies across cloud and backup into the recovery conversation, so protection stays consistent as environments grow and change.
Key Benefits
Flexible Recovery Models. Choose from Dedicated, Guaranteed Multi-Tenant, Reserve Multi-Tenant, or Backup Restore DR, so protection actually matches the business impact of each workload instead of forcing everything into the same tier.
Fully Managed. Ark engineers handle recovery planning, testing, and event coordination from end to end, including IP Portability to cut down on the DNS and re-IP work that typically slows a failover.
Defined Capacity, Transparent Cost. Compute and storage commitments are clear from the start, with predictable pricing and none of the hyperscale style egress fees that make recovery budgets hard to plan around.
Built for Regulated Workloads. The service supports HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, GLBA, NIST, and SOC 1/SOC 2 continuity and recovery requirements, so compliance doesn’t become an afterthought during a recovery event.
Why Ark Disaster Recovery
Strong disaster recovery takes more than replicated infrastructure sitting somewhere and waiting. It takes disciplined planning and execution that hold up when they’re actually needed. Ark Disaster Recovery delivers consistent, controlled recovery with clear accountability, so protection stays reliable even as environments evolve.
Because Ark Disaster Recovery is built directly into Ark’s managed Nutanix platform, infrastructure and recovery leverage native, built-in capabilities under a single, reliable operating model. This eliminates the need for third-party tools to manage disaster recovery, ensuring you aren’t relying on a patchwork of software stitched together during an emergency. There’s no secondary data center to buy, license, staff, or refresh on your own, and no vendor sprawl to coordinate when something actually goes wrong. When disruption hits, that simplicity, backed by technology already proven at enterprise scale, is what turns a recovery plan into a recovery that works.
Ready to see how a managed recovery model fits your environment? Reach out to the Ark team to talk through the right recovery model for your workloads.
