What Is Disaster Recovery (DR)?
Disaster Recovery provides recovery, redundancy and resilience for your organisation. Although many forms of backup technology, such as Oakford’s Remote Backup or Virtual Machine Backup solutions, will provide a level of recovery, our Disaster Recovery solution will allow your organisation to continue working by keeping a near real time identical system available from our data centres.

What Are The Different DR Types?
 DR can appear in many forms. A basic form of DR is a secure, offsite backup of your data. When disaster strikes you would need to obtain new hardware, install and configure your system then restore your backup. Our new virtual server package makes this process much easier and faster by allowing the restore of a virtual server including the settings.

A more advanced DR solution would, at minimum, provide a near real-time copy of your computer system offsite. In the event of a disaster the offsite server can be activated and users are back online in a very short period of time. This advanced solution can be taken a few steps further to provide your telephone system and even a DR office suite for your staff to work from, fully inclusive of desks, computers, servers and phones.

Who Uses DR?
A number of different organisations use a DR solution. Most at least have a secure data backup solution and that is perfectly fine for some organisations as downtime is not so critical. Schools, Colleges and Universities use a more advanced DR solution, especially for the exam results period. Should a disaster occur during the summer holiday a quick solution is required to bring the School Management Systems back online to provide exam results.  

Other organisations include web shops, telesales and insurance brokers which would all suffer financially for each hour the telephone or computer system is unavailable.

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