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Backup and Disaster Recovery as a Service – it’s better to be prepared
With cyber-attacks and environmental events on the rise, there’s a growing awareness that disaster is likely to touch your business at some point. There’s not much you can do about the unknowns of tomorrow. But considering backup and disaster recovery as a key part of your overall data management, is vital to get your critical business operations back up and running quickly.
Disaster recovery planning and data backups can be tricky. We know because we’ve been helping customers with data protection and management solutions for over 20 years. Let us help with your backup, disaster recovery and disaster recovery plan so you can get on with doing what you do best – running your business
Lean on us for your data management
You can sit back, relax, knowing we’ll do all the hard work to protect your data, and recover it, if something happens to it.
Connect
With our data management solutions, we offer you back up and disaster recovery along with an actionable disaster recovery plan all in one, connected and streamlined service.
Secure
Data is your most valuable asset. And we know how important it is to keep your most valuable asset secure. We’ll protect data come what may.
Scale
Businesses rarely stand still for long. Data management is growing more rapidly than ever before, and our scalable solutions can keep up.
Backup as a Service
If you’re like most businesses in our hybrid and increasingly digital world – data is at the heart of your operations. And your business simply cannot function without it.
You can secure your virtual walls to the best of your ability. But not everything is within your control. Unforeseen disasters can still hit your business. Your servers could be flooded. Or you could be the target of cyber attacks. But no matter what, a robust backup as a service solution keeps your business running, and your end users functioning, even if the worst happens.
As part of our managed service, we have a team that focuses exclusively on backup. All day, every day. So you can be confident that your recovery point objective is in safe hands. And if something goes wrong, our tried and tested recovery process will recover your mission critical data fast.
We can protect all types of data and applications wherever it’s held (whether you need it on-premise, in a data centre, or cloud storage).
We’ve been doing this for more than 20 years
We've been designing and managing disaster recovery planning for more than two decades. We’ll use that wealth of experience to deliver something that works every time.
We already manage over 20 Petabytes of data
We’ve got a wide range of backup solutions to suit diverse customer requirements. Our data centres run the length and breadth of the UK. So we’ll have a solution that suits where you are and the data you need to protect.
A specialist backup team
We have a specialist team focusing solely on our backup service, so if something fails, we’ll see it first, and act fast
There’s no sharing
You’ll get your own dedicated environment and data management solutions (if that’s what you need) so there’s no contention of resources.
Backup will be a good fit for you if…
You have data on premise, in the data centre and in the public cloud
You’d like a single service to protect them all.
You’re unsure about the reliability of your existing backup and data storage
We can move your data to our fully owned and accredited UK data centres.
You need your own space
We can offer each customer their own dedicated environment (if that’s what you need) so there’s no contention of resources.
You have specific geographical needs
Say you have certain latency requirements, or your users are in a particular location and you need the data within touching distance. We have 12 UK data centres you can choose from.
Recovery Planning
A disaster recovery plan is there to make sure your business applications continue to run when something unexpected knocks you off your stride – whether that’s a cyber-attack, equipment failure, a simple power outage resulting in a failure to critical systems, or a full-blown natural disaster. However, an effective disaster recovery strategy and good crisis management can make a big difference in how quickly you can recover important data and keep your business moving.
Our experts work with you to get a complete picture of your data management needs (from your recovery time objective requirements to your business operations and business continuity plan). So we can work out how to best protect you against data loss. We’ll continually test and maintain your disaster recovery plan so you can sleep at night knowing your business operations are protected.
Our consultants will assess your business from top-to-toe
We’ll use analytics to interrogate all of the data in your business. So we can understand your recovery time objective and what’s most important to you.
Support on tap
Our disaster recovery team are at your beck and call 24/7. And when needed they’ll support you to test your disaster recovery plan (to make sure it works seamlessly in practice.
We’ve been doing this for over 20 years
We've been designing and managing backup and disaster recovery plans for more than two decades. We’ll use that wealth of experience to restore data as quickly as possible.
Knowledge is power
We use business impact analysis to map out all of the data in your business and who will be impacted if there's data loss. So you can effectively manage stakeholders, internal staff and end users in the event of a disaster.
A Recovery Plan will be a good fit for you if…
You don’t have the skills or experience in house
Our disaster recovery team can help map out your disaster recovery strategy and align it with your business continuity plan.
You want to reduce potential risk as much as possible
The best way to do this is always to plan for the worst and be prepared if it ever happens.
You don’t want your disaster recovery plan to just be a hypothesis
We’ll help build your custom plan and regularly put it to the test with disaster scenarios.
You want to continually improve
A good recovery plan will include a ‘lessons learned’ after every incident. So, you can identify how to improve next time.
Disaster Recovery as a Service
Disaster recovery was once considered an optional extra, but that’s changed. Accidents and natural disasters happen. But some of the most devastating threats are now cyber security related.
With hybrid working on the up, there’s a steady rise in data breaches and cyber attacks – making the need for business continuity planning (with a disaster recovery strategy baked in from the outset) more important than ever. 60% of small businesses close within six months of being the target of a cybersecurity event. And that’s usually because they can’t recover business intelligence and data, even after forking out to pay a ransom.
It’s great knowing your backup as a service solution will get all of your day-to-day data back to you, so you can keep your end users and customers ticking over. But what if the data you’ve backed up has been compromised too?
This is when disaster recovery really comes into play.
We’ll hold a replica of your critical backed up data. So, if a data centre goes up in smoke, or you fall victim to a ransomware attack, you’re covered. Our service restores your entire business to our cloud storage automatically. Speed is key, so the quicker you can recover your applications the more likely all your business data will survive.
Superfast network
Speed is key when you want to limit the impact a disaster can have on your business. If you use iomart's data centres, we’ll make sure your data gets to and from your recovery environments at lightning speed.
Hybrid cloud approach
It doesn’t matter where your data is. We’ll have a solution that can recover your data from wherever it is and take it to wherever it needs to go. We’ll restore your protected workloads, applications, and data sources to our cloud
Recovery plan
We offer a consultation led approach to fully design and plan your disaster recovery. And the plan that we implement considers the impact to your whole business.
Support on tap
When a disaster does occur and you need to lean on your recovery plan, you’ll have peace of mind knowing our expert support teams will get you back up and running fast.
Disaster recovery will be a good fit for you if…
You don’t have the skills, technology, or capacity in-house to react effectively to a disaster
Our disaster recovery procedures are tried and tested
Data is critical to your business and you can’t afford to have extended periods of downtime
How would your business be impacted if you lost access to your data for a day, or a week?
You need a high level of data security
Whether it’s critical to the smooth running of your business or you need to meet strict regulatory rules
You have specific geographical needs
Say you have certain latency requirements, or your users are in a particular location and you need the data within touching distance. We have 12 UK data centres you can choose from.
Full Recovery
Traditional data protection normally involves navigating (and paying for) distinct backup and disaster recovery solutions. So when disaster occurs, your team is simultaneously dealing with recovery plan processes, distinct backup and disaster recovery platforms, all while handling the inevitable frayed nerves that come from a breach, accident, or natural disaster.
Since we like to keep things as straightforward as possible, we thought you might like your backup, disaster recovery and recovery plan all in one streamlined service. This is our cloud storage platform with its own backup and disaster recovery capabilities, and we call it Full Recovery. Because you’ll be “fully recovered” in the event of any breach or incident.
With our Full Recovery package, we even include 10 days of committed disaster recovery for each contract year at no extra cost. And if you go over those 10 days, it’s a straightforward Pay-As-You-Go model. So, unlike traditional data management solutions, you don’t need to pay for disaster recovery 365 days of the year – if you don’t really need it.
Full Recovery keeps your data safe with three solutions in one streamlined service:
- Recovery Plan – you’ll work with our experts to create your very own personalised data recovery plan. So, if a disaster occurs, you’ll be calm and ready. With clearly accountable roles, tasks and processes, you’ll be back up and running in no time.
- Backup – no surprises here, we protect your data with a robust and secure backup service. We’ll quickly restore the mission-critical data you need to keep the lights on, so your end users aren’t impacted or interrupted.
- Disaster Recovery – get 10 days on us each year, no strings attached. So, when you’ve got your mission critical operations back up and running you can then move onto recovering any raw data you lost in the disaster.
These three solutions together form our Full Recovery package. In this single, streamlined service. But you can always opt to take any of these individually too.
There’s no stopping us
We know data management like the back of our hand
Put us to the test and ask us anything about back up and disaster recovery. Data management could easily be our specialist topic on Mastermind (we’ve been doing it for more than 20 years).
Two decades of managed service experience
For more than two decades iomart has been designing and managing data management solutions and services. We have the expertise you need to recover your data whenever you need it, managing the invocation of disaster recovery to get you back up and running fast.
We make complicated technology straightforward
Our IT people and security analysts love this stuff (and they’re very good at it). Our specialist disaster recovery and backup teams are on hand when you need support with any data management questions. They’ll banish any technical hiccups and detangle any complexities you might be facing.
Helping Cleardata win more customers
“They know and understand our business and us as individuals, and we can always pick up the phone to them“
David Bryce, Managing Director – Cleardata
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