Data Backup and Disaster recovery

This is the most essential aspect of any company’s IT infrastructure and is usually underestimated if not wholly ignored. Because without an appropriate backup and disaster recovery solution, any loss of data, whether it’s by corruption, malicious acts or physical hardware failure can be devastating to a company’s ability to function. Resulting in extended downtime or permanent loss of data which can lead to the demise of a business.

A simple question would be: How much would downtime cost your business?

Computer Friendly Consultants have developed solutions that fulfil all the requirements for the SME market place with a full disaster recovery solution that is verified every day.

You decide what you require, and we create the solution to suit you and We check it!

So why CFCUK?

Computer Friendly Consultants Offsite Secure Data Solutions are designed to meet the accepted best business practice of a secure offsite copy of all inhouse company data and support many different disaster recovery implementation scenarios. Our solutions automated to remove the element of human failure. Replacing legacy External Hard Drives, Magnetic tapes, USB storage devices and public cloud services (which are generally used for their convenience yet don’t offer a business level recovery solution).

We do offer to review your current backup practices and advise on available options to improving your resilience against data loss; we can even test your current solutions to determine the effectiveness with the ability to recover your systems.

Our Key services are:

  • We backup Raw files, folders, system snapshots and complete image chains to our private data facility.
  • Our solutions offer quick data recovery points on your premises which are synchronised with our off-site data facility on a schedule to suit your business.
  • We offer snapshots of your data on schedules to suit your legal or personal requirements; every 5 minutes, hourly or daily with retention periods to suit, with weekly, monthly or yearly copies of historical data available depending on the amount of storage purchased.
  • All our solutions are automated, removing the element of human error and failure. Reports and logs are created and verified automatically and reviewed by an engineer.

PRIVATE CLOUD & OFFICE 365 BACKUP

Computer Friendly Consultants have our own Private Data Facility. Controlled and administered by ourselves, we have complete control of the backup environment that we provide for all of our backup solutions. We use a best of breed, market leading software to ensure our facility is secure, encrypted and not overloaded like many other DR providers.

Microsoft Office 365 is the direction the world is being pushed to provide Exchange email services yet Microsoft only provides the service they do state that all the “Data contained on the platform is the customers responsibility” THAT IS YOU.  Our Office 365 backup service that provides Unlimited Capacity and Unlimited Data Retention even for inactive mailboxes!

DRAAS & DISASTER RECOVERY

Disaster Recovery planning is key to the survival of any business. Whatever you use to back up your data the most important questions is when did you last perform a test recovery?  We offer DR planning and testing, from written Disaster Recovery Plans, aiding in GDPR compliance to DR test recoveries.  The worst position for any company after a data loss is to be left with a backup that does not provide the ability to recover.  Our Data Center allows for any size of data, with recover in the fastest possible time even using fast response drivers to delivery data media to an alternative location in the event of total site outage.  Disaster Recovery As A Service is the next step in business continuity with a full replica of your IT environment virtualised and ready to spin up within minutes of a actual system failure; which can also be tested on a scheduled basis.

BACKUP & RETENTION

Our DR solutions offer clients an offsite copy of their data in the event of a site loss. We take a copy of your data to our offsite data facility on an incremental or daily basis, ensuring that if the worst should happen, you have a point of recovery from local or remote storage. We offer many different types of recovery options, to ensure your business processors are restored in the fastest possible turnaround time.

SYSTEM IMAGING

Utilising the market leader Imaging software to create snapshots your complete system and data is the best form of backup and recovery solution. Imaging allows the complete recovery of the PC or Server to the exact state at the time of a backup. Images can be taken as frequently as every fifteen minutes or hourly, whatever interval suits your business requirements. As part of our Backup Solutions, images are created, encrypted and stored to an onsite storage system before being replicated off site, so individual files, folders or complete system recoveries are possible and fast.

Please contact us for more information on our DRAAS and RAW data copy solutions.