A system for providing an application service to clients, comprising: backup storage (300, 720) comprising persistent storage, wherein the persistent storage comprises: volume storage (322, 722) for storing deduplicated backups, and high performance storage (324, 730); and a remote agent programmed to: identify a failure of the application service that causes the application service to be suspended; in response to identifying the failure: instantiate an instance of an application for providing the application service in a production host (200, 700); identify at least one virtual disk level backup that is: associated with the application; and is a portion of the deduplicated backups; extract the at least one virtual disk level backup from the deduplicated backups on the volume storage (322, 722) to obtain a copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup, wherein the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup is stored in the high performance storage (324, 730); expose the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup to the production host (200, 700) by providing the production host (200, 700) remote access to the high performance storage (324, 730); identify application data associated with the application within the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup on the high performance storage (324, 730); transition an application service session for a client of the clients to the instance of the application; and resume the application service for the client using the instance of the application and the application data. backup storage (300, 720) comprising persistent storage, wherein the persistent storage comprises: volume storage (322, 722) for storing deduplicated backups, and high performance storage (324, 730); and volume storage (322, 722) for storing deduplicated backups, and high performance storage (324, 730); and a remote agent programmed to: identify a failure of the application service that causes the application service to be suspended; in response to identifying the failure: instantiate an instance of an application for providing the application service in a production host (200, 700); identify at least one virtual disk level backup that is: associated with the application; and is a portion of the deduplicated backups; extract the at least one virtual disk level backup from the deduplicated backups on the volume storage (322, 722) to obtain a copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup, wherein the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup is stored in the high performance storage (324, 730); expose the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup to the production host (200, 700) by providing the production host (200, 700) remote access to the high performance storage (324, 730); identify application data associated with the application within the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup on the high performance storage (324, 730); transition an application service session for a client of the clients to the instance of the application; and resume the application service for the client using the instance of the application and the application data. identify a failure of the application service that causes the application service to be suspended; in response to identifying the failure: instantiate an instance of an application for providing the application service in a production host (200, 700); identify at least one virtual disk level backup that is: associated with the application; and is a portion of the deduplicated backups; extract the at least one virtual disk level backup from the deduplicated backups on the volume storage (322, 722) to obtain a copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup, wherein the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup is stored in the high performance storage (324, 730); expose the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup to the production host (200, 700) by providing the production host (200, 700) remote access to the high performance storage (324, 730); identify application data associated with the application within the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup on the high performance storage (324, 730); transition an application service session for a client of the clients to the instance of the application; and resume the application service for the client using the instance of the application and the application data. instantiate an instance of an application for providing the application service in a production host (200, 700); identify at least one virtual disk level backup that is: associated with the application; and is a portion of the deduplicated backups; associated with the application; and is a portion of the deduplicated backups; extract the at least one virtual disk level backup from the deduplicated backups on the volume storage (322, 722) to obtain a copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup, wherein the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup is stored in the high performance storage (324, 730); expose the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup to the production host (200, 700) by providing the production host (200, 700) remote access to the high performance storage (324, 730); identify application data associated with the application within the copy of the at least one virtual disk level backup on the high performance storage (324, 730); transition an application service session for a client of the clients to the instance of the application; and resume the application service for the client using the instance of the application and the application data.