Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Hardware failures, ransomware attacks, fires, floods — any one of these events can take your business offline for days or weeks if you’re not properly prepared. Most businesses think of disaster recovery in terms of natural disasters, but the reality is that technology failures and cyber incidents are far more common causes of serious business disruption.
Technicalities has partnered with industry leaders in disaster recovery and business continuity to give you options that suit your requirements and budget. Using our solutions, backups can be virtualised instantly on a local device or to a secure cloud location — so that when a local disaster occurs, your business can continue operating in the cloud without missing a beat.
A backup alone is not a recovery plan. Without the right infrastructure and processes in place, restoring from a backup can take days — or longer. Our solutions are designed to get businesses back up and running in minutes, not days.
When a disaster strikes, you’re out of business until you can restore your systems and your data.
How long can your business afford to be down?
A Backup Isn’t Enough on Its Own
Many businesses believe that having a backup means they can recover quickly after an incident. Without the right plan and infrastructure in place, however, restoring to full operations can take a minimum of several days — and often much longer.
With our Instant Virtualisation technology, your systems can be back up and operational within minutes of an incident — not days. Before you can plan properly, it’s worth asking some honest questions:
How long can your business survive without access to your IT systems?
How many hours of work are you willing to lose or repeat?
How many employees do you have who can’t work during an outage?
What is your cost per hour if those employees are unable to work?
Disasters come in many forms. The businesses best placed to survive them are the ones that have planned for each scenario in advance — not just the obvious ones.
Server Failure
Hardware failures are one of the most common causes of unplanned downtime — and they happen without warning.
Data Loss or Corruption
Accidental deletion, software bugs, or storage failures can render critical business data unavailable or unrecoverable.
Data Theft or Ransomware
Ransomware attacks can encrypt your entire environment within hours — locking you out of every system until you pay or recover.
Fire or Flood
Physical disasters can destroy on-premises infrastructure entirely. Offsite and cloud backup is the only protection against total loss.
It is important to prepare for an incident before it happens.
A plan written after the fact is too late to help.
Plan Before the Disaster, Not After
Planning ahead — before a disaster strikes — is the difference between a business that recovers in minutes and one that’s offline for days. A good disaster recovery plan identifies every critical system, defines recovery time objectives, and maps out exactly what happens when the worst occurs.
Our team will ask the right questions and work with you to build an effective, practical Disaster Recovery plan tailored to your environment. Critically, we also help you test it — because a plan that hasn’t been tested is a plan that may fail when you need it most. It’s always better to discover gaps during a controlled test than during an actual incident.
Does your business have a recovery plan?
Talk to our team about a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery assessment — we’ll help you understand your current exposure and build a plan that works.