Disaster Recovery as a Service
DRaaS that keeps your business running when the worst happens.
A UK partner that designs, tests and runs your disaster-recovery estate end-to-end. RPO and RTO contracted in writing, quarterly DR test reports, ISO 27001 governance, all under one fixed monthly fee.
30-min consult · UK-based architects · ISO 27001 · Quarterly DR tests
DR console · protectedBCP / DR governance certified
Contracted RTO on tier-1 workloads
DR-test pass rate since 2018
UK-based DR operations
WHERE DR PROGRAMMES BREAK DOWN
When your Disaster Recovery plan should work on the day, not just on paper
Most UK DR programmes pass desk-top reviews and fail real failovers. Untested runbooks, drifted secondary sites and unverified backups turn a manageable incident into a business outage.
Backups exist but failovers fail
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Backups complete every night but nobody has run a full restore in 18 months. The first real failover discovers corrupted snapshots and missing dependencies.
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Quarterly full DR tests with documented evidence. Restore-validation on every backup. Failover playbooks exercised, not just written.
RPO and RTO are still guesses
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Stated recovery objectives have no contracted basis. When the board asks how long an outage costs, nobody has the verified answer, and FCA assessors will press hard on the gap.
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Per-workload RPO + RTO contracted in writing. Measured against actual recovery time in every quarterly DR test.
Secondary site drifts from primary
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Production changes propagate but secondary configuration drifts. The DR target ends up missing the policies and patches that production has, and the failover quietly breaks at cutover.
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Continuous configuration replication. Secondary patched, hardened and policy-aligned with primary at all times.
WHAT WE COVER
Our Disaster Recovery as a Service covers the full BCP lifecycle
From RPO/RTO design to quarterly testing and incident response. One UK team. One fixed monthly fee.
BCP design & RPO/RTO
Contracted
Per-workload Business Impact Analysis. RPO + RTO contracted per workload. DR architecture aligned to your BCP.
- rapid median phone answer
- AI auto-resolution for 23% of L1 volume
- Phone · portal · Teams · email · chat
Replication & secondary site
UK-region
Azure Site Recovery or AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery on UK-secondary regions. Continuous replication, immutable backups.
- SOC integration on every L1 ticket
- ISO 27001 chain of custody · GDPR-ready
- Identity-aware access provisioning
Quarterly DR tests
Evidence
Full failover, application-level recovery validation, RPO/RTO measurement, audit-ready evidence packs for ICO, FCA, NHS DSPT.
- 40% reduction in repeat-cause tickets
- Automated patch waves · 0 rollbacks
- Monthly trend & root-cause review
24/7 incident response
UK ops
Named UK on-call architects, runbook execution, communication with stakeholders during recovery. Post-incident reports.
- Elastic per-user fee · agreed notice
- M&A & multi-region rollout playbooks
- Named service-delivery manager
HOW WE DELIVER DR
Three phases from BIA to continuous DR readiness
A predictable DR programme: assess impact and gaps, build to tested baselines, run quarterly drills with evidence.
01
2-3 weeks
Business Impact Analysis
Workload criticality, dependency mapping, current RPO/RTO measurement, gap analysis. Costed remediation plan you keep.
02
4-8 weeks
Build & test
Implement replication, secondary site hardening, runbooks. First full DR test with measured RPO/RTO before sign-off.
03
Ongoing
Run, test, respond
24/7 monitoring, quarterly DR tests with evidence, real-incident response. Annual BCP review with the board.
WHY UK ORGANISATIONS PICK US
A DR partner the board can trust
UK-based, ISO 27001 certified, 100% DR-test pass rate since 2018, 30-year track record running enterprise IT for British organisations.
TESTED
100% pass rate since 2018
Every quarterly DR test, every real-incident failover since 2018: workloads recovered within contracted RPO/RTO. Evidence available on request.
UK-BASED
Architects + ops in London
Your DR estate is designed and operated by named UK architects, not offshored. ISO 27001 certified throughout.
CONTRACTED
RPO + RTO in writing
Per-workload RPO and RTO contracted as part of the agreement. Measured against actual recovery time in every DR test.
FIXED FEE
Predictable monthly billing
One fixed monthly fee covers BCP review, replication, quarterly tests, runbook maintenance, 24/7 ops. No surprise change-control invoices.
WHO TRUSTS US WITH DR
UK organisations protecting business continuity with Transputec
UK student accommodation · public-cloud DR · 24/7 ops
London publisher · Azure DR · publishing platform
UK hospitality · multi-region DR · hotel PMS
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
DRaaS Disaster Recovery FAQ
What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)?
DRaaS replicates your production workloads to a secondary site (typically a separate UK Azure or AWS region) and provides the orchestration, runbooks and 24/7 ops needed to fail over within contracted Recovery Time Objectives. We design the DR architecture, run quarterly tests with documented evidence, and provide named UK on-call architects for real incidents. Cyber-resilience is layered on top via our Cyber Security Services.
How are RPO and RTO contracted?
Per-workload Recovery Point Objective (data loss tolerance) and Recovery Time Objective (downtime tolerance) are agreed during the Business Impact Analysis and contracted in writing. Tier-1 workloads typically have RPO <5 minutes and RTO <15 minutes. Quarterly DR tests measure actual values against contracted targets; if we miss, we pay credits. Architecture aligns to Azure Site Recovery or AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.
Do you run real DR tests or just paper exercises?
Real failovers, quarterly. Every workload is failed over to the secondary site, application-level recovery is validated, RPO and RTO are measured, and an evidence pack is produced for ICO, FCA or NHS DSPT audits. We have a 100% DR-test pass rate since 2018. Audit-ready evidence is available on request. Our methodology aligns with NCSC Cloud Security guidance and Cyber Essentials.
What about data residency for UK organisations?
Default DR architecture uses UK South as primary + UK West as secondary on Azure, or eu-west-2 (London) primary + eu-west-1 (Ireland) secondary on AWS, keeping data within UK/EU borders for UK GDPR, ICO, FCA and NHS DSPT compliance. Cross-border DR is available where regulatory + commercial requirements demand it, with full residency documentation.
What does DRaaS cost and what is the contract term?
Fixed monthly per-workload fee covering replication, secondary-site hardening, quarterly tests, runbook maintenance and 24/7 ops. Cloud consumption (secondary-site compute + storage) is passed through at cost. Typical contract term is 12 months with a agreed exit. Pricing depends on workload count, RPO/RTO requirements and secondary-site footprint. The free DR readiness review covers all of it.
What is the difference between backup and disaster recovery?
Backup creates a point-in-time copy of data so you can restore individual files or databases (deletion, corruption, ransomware). Disaster recovery (DR) goes further: it replicates whole workloads (application + data + configuration + dependencies) to a secondary location with contracted RTO (recovery time objective) and RPO (recovery point objective), and proves the failover works through quarterly testing. Backup answers “can I get my file back?” DR answers “can my business keep running when the primary site fails?” Most UK regulated organisations need both, integrated. See NCSC business continuity guidance.
READY TO PROTECT BUSINESS CONTINUITY?
Book a free DR readiness review.
A 30-minute call with one of our UK DR architects. No sales script. We review your current backups + DR runbooks, flag the top three gaps, and suggest the most efficient way to fix them.
- DR readiness audit with tested RTO and RPO benchmarks
- Quarterly failover-testing schedule built in
- Indicative per-workload monthly fee with no surprise variations
- Prompt reply. ISO 27001 secure handling.