SME Disaster Recovery as a Managed Service

C6/10May 7, 2026
WhatA turnkey disaster recovery platform for small and medium businesses that continuously snapshots entire IT infrastructure — servers, configs, credentials, tribal knowledge — and can rebuild from zero in hours, not weeks.
SignalCommenters describe a common reality where entire businesses depend on one person's knowledge of a USB stick or undocumented process, and if their infrastructure burns down, they have no automated way to rebuild — backups exist but the restoration path is manual and fragile.
Why NowCloud infrastructure APIs are now mature enough to fully codify and snapshot complex environments, and the rise of infrastructure-as-code tools makes automated full-stack restoration feasible for the first time at SME price points.
MarketSMEs with 50-500 employees paying $1-5K/month; ~30M SMEs globally with IT infrastructure; competitors like Axcient and Datto focus on backup but not full infrastructure rebuild orchestration.
MoatDeep integration with customer infrastructure creates high switching costs, and accumulated restoration playbooks across industries become a proprietary knowledge base.
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