Security & compliance
Business continuity and disaster recovery
Holding a copy of your data is storage. Getting back to work quickly is recovery.
Speed
The measure that actually matters
Immutable
Copies ransomware cannot delete
Tested
Recovery rehearsed, not assumed
Overview
Backups and disaster recovery get talked about as if they are the same thing. They are not. A backup is a copy of your data, held somewhere safe. Disaster recovery is the plan and the capability to get your business functioning again — and business continuity is the wider question of how you keep trading while that happens.
The measure that actually matters is speed. Two businesses can hold identical backups and one is working again by lunchtime while the other is still rebuilding servers a week later. We design around how quickly you need to be back, then build the backup and recovery arrangements to meet it.
What's included
How we deliver business continuity and disaster recovery
Backups that are verified
Local and offsite copies of servers, endpoints and Microsoft 365, checked daily and test-restored regularly.
Recovery time objectives
An agreed target for how long each critical system can be down, and infrastructure sized to achieve it.
Documented recovery plan
A written, ordered runbook: what gets restored, in what sequence, by whom, and who is told what.
Rapid failover options
Where downtime is expensive, the ability to spin systems up from backup rather than rebuild from scratch.
Ransomware resilience
Immutable and offsite copies that an attacker on your network cannot encrypt or delete.
Tested, not assumed
Periodic recovery tests, because the first time you try a restore should never be during a real incident.
How it works
What happens when you get in touch
Agree what matters
Which systems the business cannot trade without, and how long each can realistically be down.
Build the backups
Local and offsite copies of servers, endpoints and Microsoft 365, verified daily.
Write the runbook
An ordered plan: what gets restored, in what sequence, by whom, and who is told what.
Test it
Periodic recovery tests, because the first restore should never happen during a real incident.
Who it suits
This is usually the right fit for
- Businesses that would lose money or customers after a day offline
- Organisations with backups nobody has ever tested
- Companies asked about continuity plans by clients or insurers
Common questions
Questions we are asked about this
Aren't backups and disaster recovery the same thing?
No. A backup is a copy of data. Disaster recovery is the capability and plan to get the business functioning again.
How quickly could we be back?
That is the design decision. We agree a target per system and build the arrangements to meet it.
Could ransomware encrypt our backups?
Not with immutable offsite copies, which is exactly why we insist on them.
Interested in business continuity and disaster recovery?
Tell us what's frustrating you and we'll tell you honestly what we'd do about it. No jargon, no pressure, no lengthy sales process.