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Make sure your business can recover from a disaster with a virtual disaster recovery solutions based on the Nviron Servia Cloud services platform.

It is a fact that you may not want to consider, but any organisation can experience an incident that can prevent it from carrying out its normal operations. From acts of nature like a flood through to man-made events such as power failure or virus attack the list is long and can have serious if not terminal consequences for your business unless proper preparations have been made.

Gartner estimates that 40% of SMEs would not be able to continue in business if they could not recover their data within 24 hours of an event occurring. This does not give you long, but only considers the data - what about the application software and operating systems that also need to be recovered so that the data can be utilised properly. These too need to be quickly and accurately recovered back to the state they were in immediately before the disaster. Only this will ensure your business gets back to running as normal in the shortest possible time.

The problems with traditional disaster recovery solutions

The main reason why SMEs are vulnerable to an unplanned event has been the decision not to invest in the necessary IT resources needed to put in place a strong disaster recovery (DR) system. This is because to provide a traditional DR solution is expensive both in terms of time and hard cash.

Many organisations backup data and applications from across the organisation to one server and then occasionally take a tape backup of this server. The tape may or may not be removed to a separate location to provide additional protection. But either way, very few organisations actually bother checking the integrity of these backups and never try to restore the backed up data unless something has gone wrong. By which time it is too late to sort any mistakes that have been made along the way.

So basically traditional DR solutions tend to be costly, inflexible and unreliable - but now there is a cost-effective alternative - off-site DR.

Complete DR solution for all sizes of business

Nviron has invested significant funds in our new state-of-the-art data centre in Manchester. This has enabled us to put together a portfolio of services that help you provide a complete DR solution for your organisation.

Servia Virtual DR services are designed to remove the problems normally associated with providing a secure and reliable DR solution for your data and software. It covers:

• Complete Windows System recovery - enables the restoration of complete Windows systems in minutes, even to dissimilar hardware or virtual environments. It is able to automate physical to virtual conversions for immediate system recovery. Additional capabilities include flexible offsite protection, Exchange, SharePoint and file/folder recovery, and support for the latest virtual environments and Microsoft operating systems

• Small Business Server recovery - enables a business to easily meet strict recovery time objectives (RTOs) by recovering complete systems in minutes, even from a bare-metal state. It will also eliminate backup windows by capturing the entire live Windows system, without disrupting user productivity or application usage

• Desktop or laptop recovery - provides a rapid and reliable system recovery even from a bare-metal state, without the need to reinstall and reconfigure operating systems, applications, system settings and preferences. It will also eliminate backup windows by capturing the entire live Windows system, without disrupting user productivity or application usage.

All of which will simplify and extend your data and disaster recovery capabilities

Rehearse your plan in a controlled environment

All of our solutions can be customised to meet the requirements of individual customers. For example we can provide a DR capability with RTO and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) ranging from ten minutes to 48 hours - ensuring downtime and lost productivity are kept to a minimum.

As well as providing a complete backup and recovery service for your IT infrastructure, we also offer the facilities for you to rehearse your DR plan in a live environment. This will give you the peace of mind of knowing that should the worst happen, your DR plan will function as anticipated.

To find out more about how our virtual DR solutions can help you business reduce costs and ensure you will recover from a disaster, contact us now on 01928 809000.