Disaster
Recovery
When the worst happens — ransomware, hardware failure, natural disaster — you need to be back online in hours, not weeks. We design and test DR plans so that when you need them, they actually work.
Most businesses don't find out their disaster recovery plan doesn't work until they need it — a backup that was never tested, a runbook nobody's opened in two years, a failover process that assumes someone remembers the manual steps under pressure. We build DR plans specifically so that the day you need one, it's already been proven to work.
That means defining real numbers before anything else: how much data you can afford to lose (Recovery Point Objective) and how long you can afford to be down (Recovery Time Objective), for each critical system — not a single blanket answer for the whole business. Ransomware changes this calculus further, since a fast, well-tested recovery is often the only real defense once an attacker is already inside.
- Business Continuity Planning (BCP) documentation and review
- VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) deployment and management
- Azure Site Recovery setup, replication, and orchestration
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) design
- Full DR failover testing on a scheduled cadence
- Ransomware recovery planning and immutable backup strategies
The process for this engagement.
Business impact & RTO/RPO definition
For each critical system, we define how much data loss and downtime the business can actually tolerate — these numbers drive every technical decision that follows.
DR architecture design
VMware Site Recovery Manager, Azure Site Recovery, or a hybrid approach depending on your existing environment — sized to the RTO/RPO targets, not a generic template.
Immutable backup & ransomware hardening
Air-gapped and immutable backup copies that an attacker with domain admin credentials still can't delete or encrypt — the specific gap that turns a ransomware incident into a multi-week outage instead of a same-day recovery.
Scheduled DR testing
A full failover test on a recurring cadence, not a one-time exercise at project close — DR plans that aren't re-tested after infrastructure changes quietly stop working.
About disaster recovery.
What's the difference between RTO and RPO?
RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is how long you can be down before it seriously hurts the business. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is how much data you can afford to lose — the gap between your last good backup and the moment of failure. They're set separately per system because the tolerance is rarely the same for email versus, say, an internal file share.
How often should we actually test our DR plan?
At minimum annually, and after any significant infrastructure change — a DR plan is only as good as the last time it was proven to work against your current environment, not the environment it was designed for.
Can a DR plan actually stop a ransomware attack?
No plan prevents an attack outright, but immutable, air-gapped backups mean an attacker encrypting your production systems doesn't also destroy your recovery path — turning a potential business-ending event into a bad week.
Do you handle the recovery, or just the planning?
Both — we design and test the plan, and we're the ones executing it during an actual incident if you're a managed client, so recovery isn't the first time anyone's run the runbook under pressure.
See it in practice.
The rest of the stack.
Cloud Migrations
Move email, file services, SQL, and full workloads to Azure — zero disruption to your operations.
High Availability
99.99% uptime isn't marketing — it's an engineering standard. Failover architectures that keep you online, always.
Backup & Data Protection
Veeam, EMC Avamar, CommVault. Your data is your business — we treat it like it is.
Microsoft Technologies
Deep expertise across Azure, Microsoft 365, Exchange Server, and Hyper-V — purpose-built for your environment.
Web Solutions
Custom websites, CMS platforms, CRM integrations, and workflow automation. André-built and engineered to perform.
Let's scope your disaster recovery.
A free consultation, an honest assessment, and a clear plan — no obligation.