In business things can go wrong, disasters can occur meaning business continuity is critical. Therefore, it’s essential to have a plan to get back on track should an incident happen – this is where Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) comes in.
Disaster Recovery as a Service is sub set of Business Continuity and acts as a backup service model that uses cloud resources to protect applications and data from disruption caused by a disaster. It also provides a total system back up that allows business continuity in the event of a fundamental system failure.
Our disaster recovery service will help your business with planning and managing incidents of all shapes and sizes.
What can you expect from our Disaster recovery service?
- Access to our market leading cloud-based disaster recovery product from global provider StorageCraft
- Flexible off-site capability to recover data from daily, weekly and quarterly restore points
- Removes the need to manage and maintain on-site dedicated disaster recovery hardware, reducing costs and eliminating risks associated with insufficient capacity to cope with significant system failover
- Assurance that your systems should be back online within hours, if disaster occurs
- Expertise to offer step-by-step assistance with developing and testing your Disaster Recovery Plan, kicking off with our easy to use DR plan template
How ready are you for a disaster striking your organisation?
When thinking about disaster recovery planning we’d encourage any IT decision makers to consider the following five questions was a means of gauging their readiness:
- Do you have a disaster recovery plan in place to protect your business?
- Do you know how to test the integrity of your data and, if yes, when you last tested it?
- Is your data backed up off site in case an incident occurs?
- How long would it take your organisation to recover your systems?
- Do you know the true cost of the downtime associated with a disaster, in both lost productivity and reputational damage with your customers?
If you answer ‘no’ to any of these questions, then you should consider a managed disaster recovery service.
At Kick we’ve been working with customers for almost 40 years to protect, back up and secure their IT environments and provide them with the confidence that if disaster strikes they’ll be able to get their essential IT systems back up and running with minimal disruption and essential data recovered.
What to expect from Disaster Recovery
Cloud Ready
Gain access to a modern cloud-based disaster recovery solution from global provider and our partner StorageCraft
Rapid Recovery
If a disaster occurs, you'll be confident that your systems will be back online within hours
Planning Expertise
With step-by-step assistance in developing and testing your Disaster Recovery Plan, kicking off with our easy to use DR plan template
Flexible Data Restoration
Flexible off-site capability to recover data from daily, weekly and quarterly restore points
Reduce Costs
Removes the costs associated with managing and maintaining on-site dedicated disaster recovery hardware
Peace of Mind
At Kick we’ve been working with customers for almost 40 years to protect, back up and secure their IT environments and essential data
StorageCraft
We’ve partnered with StorageCraft to offer their market leading cloud based disaster recovery product.
This Kick managed disaster recovery product delivers access to your cloud data anywhere, anytime using StorageCraft's disaster recovery cloud with 99.999+ percent uptime. Take confidence knowing your data is secure, recoverable and accessible when you need it.
Common Questions
What do I do to get a disaster recovery plan in place to protect my business?
At any time, things can go wrong, disaster can occur, business continuity is therefore essential. That’s why it is important for organisations to ensure that if the worst does happen, then there is a plan in place to get things back on track. If you don’t already we strongly recommend having a fully customised DR plan or consider having an established IT partner who can collaborate with you to create, test and implement your plan.
How do we go about backing up our data off site and how quickly can it be recovered?
In the event an incident occurs, cloud-based recovery is an easily accessible, robust and cost effective way for managing your data off site. Our cloud services operates by backing up your designated system data on a remote offsite cloud server. You’ll be able to back up your data offsite with automation to ensure your files are updated daily.
As your Disaster Recovery as a Service provider we will work with you to establish recovery time objectives (RTO) and service level agreements to determine how long it will take your organisation to recover your systems. With almost 40 years’ experience in the market, we can ensure that we will get your systems back online in no time.
What's the difference between Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity?
Disaster recovery should be viewed as part of your overall Business Continuity plan, with the aim being to restore your IT environment as quickly and efficiently as possible following any incident.
Business Continuity is a wider plan focusing on the key areas that keep a business operational; communications, employees and IT - and it's with IT that your disaster recovery kicks in.
Why Kick for Managed IT?
We’re a long-established provider of managed IT services, with a proactive and predictive approach to phone, remote and on-site support available to our 10,000 users. With over 300 years combined experience supplying managed IT services across a wide range of technology platforms, and with accreditations including Microsoft Gold, Citrix Silver, N-Able Super Elite and StorageCraft Premier, you can trust in our expertise - we’re here to help.
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