Disaster Recovery is the process of preparing for the recovery of your IT infrastructure after a natural or human disaster such as fire, flood, industrial hazard, computer virus or theft. A Disaster Recovery plan can be produced as part of a Business Continuity Plan, which involves more general aspects of business functionality.

Many companies consider a ‘disaster’ to be too rare to worry about, but reports have shown that most businesses, who suffer a serious disaster with no business continuity plan in place, will go out of business within two years. It is just not worth taking the risk of losing your IT infrastructure, no matter how little data you possess.

Why should you consider a disaster recovery plan with Excellence IT?

Business continuity and disaster recovery planning have traditionally been split between the business area and the IT department. At Excellence IT we believe that this “divide” creates more problems than it solves; after all, almost all businesses could not continue to operate successfully if their IT services were unavailable.

Up until now, only larger firms have been able to afford a disaster recovery service. But Excellence IT can provide a service that is tailored for small to medium sized businesses – solutions that provide real value and functionality. You will be surprised by how low your disaster recovery plan can be.

What are the key benefits of Excellence IT's Disaster Recovery solutions?

• Especially quick recovery times - get your IT system up and running again within hours of a disaster.

• Locally stored data - We are able to store your data locally on our servers in Caerphilly, not at a remote data centre.

• Universal restore to dissimilar hardware - (requires server imaging) - We can restore your data on different hardware so if your laptop gets stolen you can carry on working like nothing has happened.

• 100% Secure - all online backups are encrypted at source and data can only be read by your password.

• Business continuity - we will keep your business running smoothly in the event of disaster with no loss of revenue.

• Entirely reliable - the technologies we use enable us to fully automate processes, thus reducing reliability issues.

• Very cost effective - if you take up a disaster recovery plan with us, it may actually reduce your business insurance premiums.

We can provide two types of Disaster Recovery plans which can be adapted to suit you:

Small Business Disaster Recovery (onsite recovery)
Using server imaging and virtualisation technology, a full image of critical servers is replayed to "hot spare" hardware in the event of disaster where the network at site is still functional. A server image recovery restores a server with all applications and data already installed and configured. This will drastically reduce disaster recovery time.

Enterprise Level Disaster Recovery (offsite recovery)
Using server imaging and virtualisation technology, a full image of critical servers is replayed to our virtual SAN (storage network) environment for access over the internet in the event of a site level disaster where the network at site is non-functional.

Related products: Why not check out our online backup page.

Please contact us to find out more and get a tailored offsite back-up/disaster recovery plan in place for your business before it’s too late!