Would your backup actually restore?
Plenty of firms discover their backups do not work on the day they need them. The jobs were running. The logs looked clean. Then the restore failed on a corrupted image, an expired credential, or a configuration change nobody accounted for.
Backup and disaster recovery is not about having backups. It is about having backups you have restored from, and a plan for the day your primary systems stop.
What a business backup and disaster recovery service covers
We back up what your business depends on. Servers, workstations, Microsoft 365 data across Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams, line-of-business databases, and your cloud infrastructure. Everything is encrypted in transit and at rest, held in UK data centres, and replicated to a second UK site.
Microsoft 365 deserves particular attention. Retention, version history and restore options vary by workload and configuration. A backup review should identify the data covered, retention periods, exclusions and restore process. Microsoft describes its separate Microsoft 365 Backup service here. We compare your existing protection with the recovery requirements before proposing changes.
How to stop ransomware reaching your backups
As we set out in our guide to ransomware in 2026, the more capable ransomware variants go for your backups first. They find the repositories, encrypt or delete them, and only then encrypt production. At that point your choices are paying or starting again.
Correctly configured immutable storage prevents protected backups being changed or deleted during their retention period. It should sit alongside separate access controls, monitoring and restore tests; immutability alone is not a complete recovery plan.
DRaaS: failing over to a working environment
Where prolonged downtime is not survivable, disaster recovery as a service keeps a live replica ready. Your critical servers and applications replicate continuously to our cloud recovery platform. If the primary site goes down — ransomware, hardware failure, fire, flood — we fail over to that replica.
Your team connects over VPN and carries on working while we deal with the primary site. For financial services clients this is not a nice-to-have: FCA operational resilience and DORA both require you to show recovery within defined tolerances.
Bandwidth is the constraint people meet last and feel most. Continuous replication, and any restore of size, are governed by your upload speed, and business broadband is asymmetric — commonly around 75 Mb up against 550 Mb down. A dedicated line is symmetric, which is why recovery targets measured in hours usually assume one. If your recovery time objective is tight, price the line alongside the backup design rather than after it.
We test the failover every quarter, document the result, and adjust the plan as your environment changes. So when a regulator asks how you would recover from a major incident — as they do of hedge funds and every other regulated firm — you hand them the report.
