ServicesBusiness Continuity with Virtual DR

Why Business Continuity?

Why is it important to have an IT Business Continuity service

Simply because IT systems are so important to most businesses and the potential to lose the use of any individual system or systems is probably a lot higher than you think. Threats come not only from biblical disasters but more commonly from things like hardware or software failure, human error, deliberate damage, hackers, viruses etc. The important question to ask is how long could you survive without your systems and what would be the business and reputational damage of a prolonged outage?

What is the difference between Business Continuity with Virtual DR and Online Server Backup?

Online server backup helps you if you have lost or deleted individual files or groups of files or data from an essentially working system. A business continuity provision will get you back an entire machine, including hardware, operating system and application software, and of course data, whatever has befallen the original system.

Do I need IT Business Continuity if I already have a backup system?

It depends how long you can do without your computer systems. If you only have data backup and you lose your computer systems irrevocably, you will have to buy new systems, replace the system and application software before reloading all your data from scratch. This process can take a long time (2 to 7 days is not uncommon) even if you know exactly what you need to do and everything works as planned, first time. If you think your business needs it’s systems faster than that then you will need to invest in a Business Continuity service that will enable you to recover a whole working machine in an agreed timescale. In Backup Direct's case that could be as little as 30 minutes.

What are the advantages of local backup with the Business Continuity service?

The Backup Direct Business Continuity service provides not only a fast, effective, affordable way of recovering whole systems in the event of a disaster, but within the same system and budget, it also provides a fast, simple way of recovering data when the system is fine but an individual file or set of files is lost.

What do RTO and RPO mean?

RTO means Recovery Time Objective. It is essentially the maximum amount of time a business can afford to elapse before recovery is achieved.

RPO means Recovery Point Objective. It is essentially the state or point a business believes it needs to recover to in order to carry on business in the event of an incident that threatens its continuity.

In relation to IT Business Continuity, the RPO should define what systems are critical to recover and what state they should be in, and the RTO defines how quickly those systems need to be available for the business to survive. These two terms will therefore define what sort of disaster recovery provision a business needs.

The Backup Direct Business Continuity service will deliver an RPO for an individual computer of a fully working system, with data up to 24 hours old, accessible over a secure Internet connection. It will deliver an RTO for the systems themselves of 30 minutes.

Why use a managed service for your IT Business Continuity?

The managed nature of the Backup Direct Business Continuity service means that whatever your business’s other commitments or priorities, you can be confident that its IT systems are protected. Your Rescue Systems will be updated, tested and stored every day, ready to be swung into action as and when you need them; no distractions, no conflicts. Having a managed service also means that you wont have to start worrying about recovering systems yourselves in the middle of a crisis. Backup Direct staff will be dedicated to calmly getting your systems back leaving you to concentrate on your business, staff and customers.

What is the Backup Direct Business Continuity service?

Backup Direct offer a fully managed business continuity service that is tested every day, and can give you back your working systems in 30 minutes. Its quickly and easily setup, includes a local file back-up feature, and costs about the same as a couple of good lunches per month.

What are the advantages to using the Backup Direct Business Continuity Service?

Backup Direct offer a complete managed service that delivers you working systems, not a bag of bits and tools that you would have to try to make work in the event of a disaster. It is very simple to set up and needs no ongoing support. It will give you back fully working systems over a secure Internet connection in around 30 minutes, and is proven to work every day though testing, so you can be confident it will work when you need it. Finally it is a very effective, and is a very affordable way of protecting your business’s critical systems.

So what is so different about the Backup Direct Business Continuity service?

Firstly, our whole service is about giving you back working systems, not the bits to enable you to rebuild systems. As such we go to great lengths to make sure that the service does what we say. In particular we test every rescue image we hold for a customer at least every day. If it fails for any reason we fix it. Secondly, we use virtualisation technology innovatively, which means that no customer has to have their own dedicated hardware, software or support letting us deliver a remarkably high recovery point service for a fraction of the cost of traditional approaches. Finally, we have exploited our snapshotting process to include a local file back-up feature that may well mean that you can dispense with your existing back up system.

If all that is not enough we offer a completely free 30 day trial.

 

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