Solutions / Business continuity and disaster recovery
Decide how long you can afford to be down, then prove you can recover in time
A backup is not a recovery plan. The question a director should be able to answer is: if we lost our main system at 9am on a Monday, when would we be working again, and how do we know?
What goes wrong
Many businesses have backups that have never been restored and a continuity plan that was written for an audit and not read since.
Power cuts, fibre cuts, ransomware and the departure of the one person who knows the systems are all ordinary events. Each one tests the plan.
What it costs the business
Every hour offline has a price in lost sales, idle staff and missed deadlines. Most businesses have never calculated it, so they cannot tell whether their recovery arrangements are too little or too much.
Banks, insurers and larger clients increasingly ask to see a tested plan before they sign.
What we do
Business impact analysis
We work out with you what an hour and a day of downtime cost for each critical system, and set recovery targets from that.
Backup and recovery
Daily backups with an immutable copy, hosted in Nairobi, and restores that are tested and timed.
Disaster recovery environment
A standby environment in a separate location that can run your critical systems.
Continuity planning
A short plan people can follow under pressure, with roles, contacts and decisions agreed in advance.
Exercises
A yearly rehearsal, with a written list of what to fix.
Prefer to talk it through?
A 30-minute call with Denis to describe the problem and hear how we would approach it. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.