Disaster Recovery Planning

Disaster recovery planning forms part of your business continuity planning. We recently helped a customer devise his D.R. plan and when the mains was cut to his premises the plan was implemented. Have a look at this case study for more information.

We can help you to devise a strategy to address two main areas of risk:-

In-House IT Events

Serious hardware failures, software failures or corruptions and security breaches.

How would you cope with a major hardware failure of your server or network?

We would help devise a sensible strategy to recover from a serious problem in the shortest time possible.

What would you do if suddenly a load of data went missing?

We'll help you implement a backup strategy which is reliable, secure and fast.

How do you prevent unauthorized access and viruses from attacking your network?

We'll install proven technology to provide a secure firewall and anti-virus solution.

Do you suffer from electricity supply fluctuation?

We'll sort out a UPS (un-interrupt able power supply) which is the right size for your system and even set it up to safely shut your system down automatically should an "outage" occur while the building is un-attended.

Is your phone/broadband line unreliable?

We can install and configure a fail-over system so that if one supplier is down your system automatically switches over to the other.

External Events

What would you do if you were prevented from accessing your building?

This used to be a theoretical situation with little chance of occurrence. All businesses were effected in the flooding of 2007 and the last two winters of sever snow and this has become a vital area of concern for your business continuity plans.

The approach the authorities take to any disaster obviously focuses on public safety and as a result access to buildings and utility provision can be removed. So how would you cope if you were unable to access your building?
We have a range of solutions from remote working if the situation stops employees from getting to the office, right through to an emergency "Office in a box" solution that sets up an emergency office in a location that you can get to.

First Recovery

We have teamed up with a specialist provider called First Recovery who specialise in holding a guaranteed bank of office space ready to be used at a moments notice in such situations. They can provide the office space, we provide the IT and expertise to get you up and running again.

Have a look at the First Recovery web site for more information at www.firstrecovery.co.uk. The combination of their office facilities and our technical expertise gives you peace of mind cover for the worst case.