Unfortunately we can all recall events that have seriously impacted businesses over recent years: Manchester City Centre bomb, Manchester BT tunnel fire and the Buncefield explosion and resulting fire are some examples of major incidents which seriously impacted many small, medium and large businesses. What would the effect be on your customers and ability to continue with your businesses if your premises could not be accessed for days or weeks? It is about preparing in advance to survive the impact of a critical incident. It is not just major incidents that need to be prepared for. For example a blown water main or a police road block could prevent access to your premises leaving your staff unable to work.

Lets imagine that you have a database system in Microsoft SQL server. We take copies of your data every day and restore automatically to our servers. We configure your client application (licenses may be required) in our technology centre.

In the event that you have a disaster, you can actually come to the Amita offices and continue to work with the same data as it was the last time we copied it, should you choose. So I can have automated disaster recovery? Yes.

Yes. Some applications (in particular mail servers) have complex configurations that cannot co-exist with other systems at the same time. We can take the data (Step 1), but not restore automatically. There are also bandwidth limitations. We can only take data from your networks that can be transferred in acceptable timescales. This isn’t an Amita limitation, it is the speed of your internet connection. For example, it takes around an hour to transfer 100MB over a standard Broadband connection.