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Managed IT Disaster Recovery Services
Businesses need more than just a backup solution. When minutes mean dollars, the ability to recover quickly, reliably and securely is a need, not a want. Future IT Services has you protected from end to end with our complete IT disaster recovery consulting services.
When system up-time is critical, you must have a business continuity solution you can rely on
Future IT Services have a range of IT disaster recovery services designed to address the needs of modern businesses, from a business data backup to a full IT business continuity plan. We can work with you to develop disaster recovery solutions that are right for your business and budgetary requirements.
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Did You Know?
1 in 5
Companies don't have a disaster recovery plan
97%
Of SME's will shut down within 6 months of total data loss
96%
Robust disaster recovery solution in place fully recover operations
Can Your Business Afford Downtime?
When talking about business continuity, we think in terms of Recovery Time Objective (RTO), & Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
RTO
The Recovery Time Objective is the duration of time within which a business must be restored after a disruption to avoid unacceptable consequences and losses.
RPO
The Recovery Point Objective is the maximum tolerable period in which data might be lost due to a disaster.
Data Backup vs Business Continuity; What’s The Difference?
Data backup answers the questions: is my data safe and protected? Can I get it back in case of a failure?
Business continuity, on the other hand, involves thinking about the business at a higher-level and asks: how quickly can I get my business operating again in case of system failure?
93% of Small Business Are Now Protecting Their Data in the Cloud
Without a Business Continuity Solution 16.2 Days Is the Average Productivity Loss in the Event of a Disaster
An Hour of Downtime Can Cost a Business Thousands of Dollars on Lost Revenue/Productivity
Endpoint Detection and Response is the next generation of security products. It helps protect your data by being able to predict outbreaks, defeat ransomware and rollback infections with minimal interruption; this is critical for any business that cannot afford to lose time recovering from a crypto locker attack. Combined with web filtering and mail scanning and filtering, your network and users are protected from events happening with instant IT disaster recovery solutions should disaster strike.
On-premise or on-site backup is when you store backed-up data locally on devices such as tape drives, hard drives, USB Keys and Servers. These can be removable and taken off-site for extra resilience.
Cloud backup is data backed up from your systems and stored externally in someone else’s data centre. This is a cost-effective and automated way to ensure your precious data is backed up in an offsite location.
Depending on the device you are backing up, a hybrid backup that mixes local storage and offsite cloud backup is the best overall solution. Having data backed up locally can speed up the backup and recovery time whilst ensuring a copy of data exists offsite. For a mobile or portable device, a cloud backup solution is best.
The simple answer is you are ultimately responsible for your data. In saying that a professional MSPs (Managed Service Providers) will ensure you have the best chance of recovery in the event of a disaster by implementing backup solutions that can store backups locally or offsite, test data validity on a daily basis and report on any failed backups or corrupted backup chains.
Contact us today for help implementing a backup solution tailored to your business needs.
Backup is the data that is backed up and stored ready for restoration in the event of a disaster. Business continuity focuses on keeping business operational during a disaster. There are many different types of backup solutions but one with business continuity should always be a primary consideration if you have business-critical functions required.
This all depends on the type of backup solution you have and your budget. Ideally, data would be backed up as it changes but this is not always practical or within budget. As a general rule, you should back up as often as you can afford data loss. As an example, if you back up weekly and lose data minutes before your next backup is scheduled then you can potentially lose a week of data to restore to the point of the last known backup. If you backup daily then the most you can lose is 1 day’s worth of data in the event of a disaster.
Yes. You should at least have a minimum of 2 backups. For an on-premise system, it can be hardware that is taken offsite so that one copy remains on-premise and the other off-site and can be rotated daily, or with a cloud solution you have the nearline backup appliance on-premise with a cloud-based version in someone else’s data centre in the event of a total loss of data on-premise.
You can manually check the data is recoverable by restoring data to a location and testing it is operational. Or look at a solution that automatically notifies you of failure, corruption and can also do self-restore testing automatically for you.
Looking at this just from a business sense the best you can hope for is loss of productivity then you scale from there, loss of data, loss of business reputation, loss of business entirely. Some stats on data loss for small business sits at 50+% of companies experience prolonged downtime, 40-60% of small businesses don’t reopen after a disaster and 90% fail if they don’t reopen quick enough.
RTO: The Recovery Time Objective is the duration of time within which a business must be restored after a disruption to avoid unacceptable consequences.
RPO: The Recovery Point Objective is the maximum tolerable period of time in which data might be lost due to a disaster. This is the point in time of which you can restore back to. For example, If you were on a weekly backup schedule then the maximum data loss should be no more than a week, similar for daily would only be one day and hourly would only be one hour of lost data.
Yes. Your data is precious and should always be encrypted especially when leaving your network. If your backups were to fall into the wrong hands and not be encrypted all of the data would be easily readable and could be distributed without your permission.
With so many different disaster scenarios and backup solutions, the main thing you need to know is that the data you are restoring is not corrupted and can be restored to your production environment. There are similar steps you need to take no matter what the disaster and level of loss may be:
Assess the problem and its impact on your business
Review your disaster management plan
Prioritise your system recovery if you have multiple systems to restore
Verify functionality with end-users upon completion
Review the restore process to ensure it met your disaster management plan
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