Peace Of Mind
Business
Continuity
The computer systems and the functions they provide to any business are always critical. An outage can happen for any number of reasons. If not properly protected, any of these can, and often do, grind a business to a halt.
For ISO-accredited organisations, as well as any organisation that assesses its risks regularly, having a good Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Policy, is vital.
In some instances, this is also compulsory as a result of client contracts.
It is also vital to have an up-to-date and regularly tested Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Process.
WHY?
EVEN THE SMALLEST
OUTAGE CAN HAVE
A HUGE FINANCIAL
IMPACT
Typical causes of an outage might be: –
- Loss of Internet access
- Loss of power
- Software corruption
- Core Server hardware failure
- Ransomware or Malware based problem
- Network intrusion and deliberate data destruction
An outage lasting just a few hours typically costs a business thousands of pounds in lost productivity.
A longer outage of a day or more can cost a business tens of thousands of pounds in lost revenue, productivity, and potential loss of clients.
An outage of a week or more can cost a business in the region of hundreds of thousands, and can even put an entire business at risk.
How?
DISASTER RECOVERY
SERVICE PROTECTS
YOUR BUSINESS
AND DATA ASSETS
AGENT BASED BACKUP
This is provided via an agent on each of your critical servers, backing up vital data to secure cloud storage.
This solution is not a perfect off-site Disaster Recovery option because it does not often hold full server images and system states, and takes significantly longer to fully recover in the event of a total server failure, however, is excellent in the short term if you have a total outage because your backed up data is accessible immediately via a secure link.
This link can be provided on demand or can be held by key members of staff.
COST
One off setup cost of £400
Annual operating cost starting at £600 unmonitored, or £1,200 which includes monitoring and monthly testing
FULL OFFSITE BACKUP
This is provided via the ‘Backup Copy’ function within your existing Veeam Backup and Replication on-premises backup routine.
Your Servers backup daily to local storage, we protect this by duplicating this backup data to a secure off-premises location daily.
This solution is not perfect for immediate access in the event of a core server hardware failure, however, is perfect for the recovery process should this occur.
Should there be a total failure of your business premises or servers, the data contained within this backup could be used to recover your servers to a fully functional state. Once the hardware has been sourced and configured, the backups could be used to recover this relatively quickly.
COST
One off setup cost of £200
Annual operating cost starting at £1,200
OFFSITE STANDBY REPLICA
This is provided via either Veeam Backup and Replication or Hyper-V replication (dependent on your network environment) and is replicated every 15 to 60 minutes.
This provides a full replica of all of your business servers, and acts as a perfect hot standby, should a failure occur within your main server environment. You would be able to failover perfectly to this environment in a matter of minutes.
In addition, this can contain a secondary Windows Domain Controller, adding increased resilience to your computer systems.
This is a comprehensive and perfect disaster recovery and business continuity solution, with a return to operation time of less than one hour, should the worst happen.
COST
One off setup cost of £600
Monthly operating cost of £125 per server protected.
Reductions can provided for larger numbers of servers.
CONTACT US
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