Disaster Recovery & Resilience

Design your recovery.
Before you need it.

We design and test disaster recovery solutions for Azure and hybrid systems, covering the technology, recovery sequence and procedures needed to restore critical services.

Recovery architecture · Azure Site Recovery · Backup · Testing

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What We Cover

Recover the service,
including what it depends on.

A restored server is only useful when identity, networking, applications and data are ready too. We account for those dependencies in the recovery design.

01

Recovery requirements and priorities

Identify which services must recover first and define the downtime and data loss the business can tolerate.

  • Critical service and application dependency mapping
  • Recovery time objectives: how long a service can be unavailable
  • Recovery point objectives: how much data loss is acceptable
  • Responsibilities, escalation paths and recovery decision points
02

Azure and hybrid recovery architecture

Design the recovery environment and select backup and replication services that support your workloads.

  • Azure Site Recovery design for supported workloads
  • Azure Backup and workload-specific backup requirements
  • Recovery network, DNS and identity dependencies
  • Capacity, licensing, cost and recovery location considerations
03

Protection for different disruption scenarios

Address infrastructure failure, accidental deletion and cyber disruption through the recovery design.

  • Backup access controls, retention and isolation requirements
  • Recovery from a known-good restore point
  • Validation before restored services reconnect to the business
  • Failover and return-to-primary procedures where applicable
04

Implementation, exercises and evidence

Configure the recovery solution, document the steps and run exercises to identify what works and what needs attention.

  • Recovery configuration and implementation planning
  • Restore tests and isolated recovery exercises
  • Step-by-step recovery runbooks and service checks
  • Exercise findings, improvement actions and operational handover
What You Receive

Recovery architecture,
runbooks and test results.

A recovery design

A recovery architecture with service dependencies, recovery objectives and technology requirements.

Recovery runbooks

Step-by-step procedures, named responsibilities and checks for restoring critical services.

Exercise findings

Test results measured against recovery objectives, with gaps and corrective actions recorded.

Recovery objectives are design targets, not guaranteed restoration times. We validate them through testing for the workloads covered by the project.

Explore the Use Case

“How do we get back online after a major disruption?”

Start by identifying which business services need to recover first, what they depend on and whether the current backups and recovery arrangements have been tested together.

Planning Your Engagement

Define recovery around your critical services.

Scope, fees and acceptance criteria are agreed in writing before work begins.

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