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. Microsoft’s own retention has gaps. Deleted mailboxes purge after 30 days. SharePoint recycle bin items expire. Teams chat is not meaningfully backed up by default. Our M365 backup closes those gaps with granular recovery going back 12 months or more.
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.
Immutable storage removes that choice from the attacker. Once data is written it cannot be modified or deleted for the retention period — not by an administrator, not by an attacker with your credentials, not by anyone. It is the single most effective way to keep your recovery options intact.
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.
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.