Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery measures are very different from pure backup and recovery. As IT systems have become increasingly critical to the smooth operation of a company, it’s increasingly important that your business can ensure the continued operation of those systems, or their rapid recovery.

Blueloop has extensive expertise in this area; our business continuity and disaster recovery services help organisations prepare for unexpected events that could otherwise cripple your IT infrastructure.

From understanding and interpreting your business needs, to identifying technical solutions and process requirements, Blueloop’s team of experts will put together and implement a business continuity and IT disaster recovery plan that will:

• Minimise interruption to your IT infrastructure, so your organisation can continue operating, even in the event of a disaster
• Control the extent of the damage
• Give your staff a clear plan of action so they know how to react if an event occurs
• Shorten the timeframe to restore critical IT infrastructure.

Can you afford not to have an IT disaster recovery policy?

It is estimated that most large companies spend between 2% and 4% of their IT budget on Disaster Recovery planning, with the aim of avoiding larger losses in the event that the business cannot continue to function due to loss of IT infrastructure and data.

Of companies that have a major loss of business data, 43% never reopen, 51% close within two years, and only 6% will survive long-term.

What are the first steps for business continuity?

Prior to selecting a Business Continuity strategy, we’ll help your organisation to identify the key metrics of Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for the principal business processes underpinned by IT such as ERP, CRM, Email etc. These metrics then form the basis for designing a suitable recovery strategy.

The solution must be affordable and fit within a practical budget. Whilst most organisation executives would like zero-data loss and zero-time loss, the cost associated with that level of protection may make the solution impractical.

Blueloop is a business partner of  Veeam and Acronis, deploying Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, together with Acronis Backup & Recovery products as appropriate to your needs.