Data Backup and Recovery

While many of today’s data storage and backup techniques have proven highly reliable, the right infrastructure is only part of the solution. Effective recovery of vital business data requires intelligent planning, sound policies, and technology know-how.

In today’s mission-critical business environments, users expect minimal disruption, zero data loss, and recovery times that are calculated in minutes rather than hours. This puts immense pressure on IT teams to restore systems quickly and efficiently.

With the increasingly hybrid nature of today’s IT infrastructures, your recovery approach should include both virtual and physical assets and clearly define your tolerance for downtime. Should an outage occur, you need to have confidence in your recovery plan to know exactly how long it will take for the business to be back online―with systems restored and critical data intact.

That’s where BACS can help. With more than 20 years of experience helping companies bolster their IT security, detect performance gaps, and plan for disasters, BACS is ideally positioned to help ease the stress and burden of backup and recovery planning and testing.

At the heart of a solid backup and recovery plan is a guiding document that defines specific procedures and processes to be carried out in event of a disaster. This detailed action plan factors in multiple scenarios with defined steps to mitigate the impact of an event and enable critical business systems and processes to be recovered and restored quickly and efficiently.

But a written plan by itself does not guarantee a rapid recovery. Communication and training, along with following proper disaster recovery procedures and protocols, are essential elements of an effective recovery program. It’s vital that every stakeholder impacted by an event clearly understands their responsibilities and the role they play in the recovery effort.

Protecting your critical business systems is not only a security issue; it is a central business concern. It requires smart investments in technology and resources to address an increasingly complex threat landscape. That’s where BACS can help.

With our comprehensive portfolio of backup and recovery and business continuity solutions, our team can evaluate your existing IT environment and create a solution that meets your specific needs and budget requirements. By assessing the potential impact on business systems, you can prioritize infrastructure and applications and define your precise uptime requirements.

We start with a systematic approach designed to determine what systems and applications are most vital to your business, and then implementing corrective and preventative measures that align with your objectives. We take into account core infrastructure needs, risk tolerances, and performance requirements as part of a comprehensive, carefully balanced plan.

Our in-depth security and business continuity analysis is designed to uncover weaknesses and pinpoint areas for targeted investment to improve. We evaluate your infrastructure and IT assets and blend proven techniques with cutting-edge practices to create a plan that achieves an optimum level of protection and risk tolerance.

With BACS, you get:

• A detailed analysis of your current disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities
• Managed recovery capabilities for both physical and virtual environments
• Quick failover reducing risk of revenue loss and production downtime.
• Ongoing testing and reporting to ensure continuous recoverability.
• Customized solutions that carefully align with your business and compliance needs.

Businesses today are under intense pressure created by an ever-growing threat environment, a proliferation of new compliance mandates, and limited IT budgets to implement new techniques and strategies. Meanwhile, as backup and storage processes migrate to the cloud, the benefits of cloud recovery need to be evaluated and balanced against security risks and potential vulnerabilities.

At BACS, we believe in taking a proactive approach against data loss. Our solutions are designed to align with your business priorities, objectives, and budget requirements while giving you the peace of mind that your data remains protected and secure.

With our flexible managed services offering, we integrate the entire process of backup and recovery into a single service. Storage, design, testing, and around-the-clock proactive backup monitoring allow you to keep an eye on performance without having to manage the task yourself.

Our expert teams of consultants will work with you to:

• Make strategic decisions. We carefully evaluate your backup and recovery needs, answering key questions about long-term growth, changes in your data needs, and shifts in business and market strategy.
• Strengthen access controls. Strong access control and user authentication methods help ensure only approved users can obtain access to your networks and data.
• Use proactive security scanning. Vulnerability monitoring provides insight into potential security gaps and other weaknesses in your network and enterprise defenses.
• Ensure business continuity. BACS will assess your current environment and develop a disaster recovery plan that safeguards infrastructure and data and protects against ongoing threats.
• Define policies and procedures. We work with you to define and implement backup and recovery policies and practices based on your tolerance risk, business requirements or mandates specific to your particular market.