Backup & Disaster Recovery
Most businesses rely so heavily on their IT data and servers that correct backup solutions are a top priority. When talking to business owners and executives most of them don’t know what a correct backup strategy is. Most people think having a backup of your most critical data is sufficient. But is your business prepared to lose a day’s worth of data? If your server were to go down, is your backup disaster recovery procedure prepared to bring you up instantly? How many hours can your business afford to be down? Are your backups restorable?
Online backups are key to having a secure backup solution. If there was a disaster like a fire or your servers were stolen, being able to recover rapidly will be key to staying in business. With replication your server can be copied to another server in almost real-time speed so in a server crash you can be up and running in minutes with minimal loss. Our proactive maintenance plans ensure your backups are always running and we make sure your data is recoverable.
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Planning and Implementation
As part of every backup plan, a business needs to have an exact disaster recovery plan – what happens next in case of a disaster? Knowing exactly what to do or what automation has been put in place to get you back up and running is key to keeping businesses operational.
Any IT Infrastructure can have many points of failure, having a plan to recover from those points and also being able to monitor and know what failure has occurred is vital.
From 5 employees to over a 1000, ProTek designs and implements the simplest to the most complex and automated disaster recovery plans.
High Availability/Redundancy Setup – “Always On” Network & Servers
For many businesses being down for the shortest of time is not an option. There are numerous technologies available from VMware, clustered switches, highly available firewalls, redundant power solutions and much more.
Automating all of these redundancies is key in keeping a business in operation and maintaining a worry free IT.
ProTek specializes in designing and implementing a fully redundant environment with automatic failover options.
Complete Backup Solutions
When it comes to your IT infrastructure and protecting it, there is nothing more important than having rock solid backups that are protected and out of reach from corruption or disaster. Unbeknownst to many business owners, there are many different types of backup solutions. Online backups, SQL backups, Exchange backups, Active Directory backups, Bare Metal Recovery backups, VM backups and more.
Many a business don’t have the required backup technologies in place to truly recover from any disaster or corruption.
Every business’s requirements are different. ProTek will assess your needs and work with you to build a rock solid backup solution that is recoverable no matter what. We work with a number of technology providers to accommodate the needs of every business.
Cloud Services Backup Solutions
A lot of businesses think their data is completely safe because it is in the “cloud”. Unfortunately most cloud software providers don’t actually backup your data in a way that you can recover the data – they will ensure that they have replicated copies of your data in multiple locations, but that replicated data is just ONE copy. Most email providers will not have a real backup in place of your emails.
In many cases if this one copy of your data in the cloud is deleted or corrupted there’s no way to recover or restore the data.
Knowing if your data is backed up and protected in the cloud is as critical as on premises data. There are numerous solutions that will backup a fully recoverable backup of your cloud solution so you know you are protected and can put your mind at ease.
Cloud Services Backup Solutions
A lot of businesses think their data is completely safe because it is in the “cloud”. Unfortunately most cloud software providers don’t actually backup your data in a way that you can recover the data – they will ensure that they have replicated copies of your data in multiple locations, but that replicated data is just ONE copy.
Most email providers will not have a real backup in place of your emails.
In many cases if this one copy of your data in the cloud is deleted or corrupted there’s no way to recover or restore the data.
Knowing if your data is backed up and protected in the cloud is as critical as on premises data. There are numerous solutions that will backup a fully recoverable backup of your cloud solution so you know you are protected and can put your mind at ease.
Data Recovery
In some cases we have assisted new clients that didn’t have good backup solutions in place to recover lost data and in most cases have been able to get the data recovered.Multiple studies show that many businesses that have a major data loss have gone out of business.
Recovering data is a very exact process and if not carefully followed could result in permanent loss of your data.
Offsite Disaster Recovery & Replication Solutions
The terms backup and replication are often (and inaccurately) used interchangeably. Replicating your data will allow you to power up your server environment instantly without having to “restore” your data.
Architecting an offsite disaster recovery solution has to be done correctly so that the offsite location will “act” just like the primary location in terms of networking, external secure access and any other service that is used by employees and external clients and staff.
Our preferred software solutions in offsite disaster recovery and replication are Veeam and VMware. Both solutions paired make for a very seamless recovery and it can all be automated.
