Disaster Recovery Solutions

UK businesses trust in Venom IT’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). We are DRaaS providers based in Manchester and servicing the UK nationwide, here to give you confidence through the worst of IT scenarios.

While both Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) are vital for protecting your data, they serve very different purposes.

Backups: Backups involve creating regular copies of your data and storing them securely off-site. If files are accidentally deleted, corrupted, or lost, you can restore them from these backups. It’s a cost-effective way to protect your data from everyday mishaps.

However—backups alone don’t keep your business running. If your office is hit by a disaster like a flood or fire, your data may be safe, but your systems, applications, and devices could be unusable. You’ll have your data, but no way to access or use it until everything is rebuilt.

Disaster Recovery: Disaster recovery takes it further. DRaaS replicates not just your data, but your entire IT environment—including servers, systems, and applications—to a secure cloud platform.

If disaster strikes, you can instantly switch to a hosted desktop environment that mirrors your usual setup. Your team can work remotely from any device on any operating system; all they need is an internet connection.

We offer bespoke disaster recovery packages to suit your needs as best as possible. 

We offer off-site backup, cloud backup, and cloud-based infrastructure 

It’s best to discuss this with one of our staff so that we can ascertain your needs and create something that fits your budget and circumstances.

Typically the questions you should consider are:

• First, how will we communicate internally?
• How will we communicate externally?
• How will we access our documents and continue working?
• We need to accommodate our staff, but how do we do it?

A disaster recovery plan is meant to provide the full functionality of your business, on short notice, during times of distress. Really, that means all your work data should be included in the disaster recovery solution.

That depends on the level of disaster recovery solution. A full-suite solution can have you up and running within a couple of hours (or even minutes) whereas a partial solution can take a day or more to set up and deploy. Also, bear in mind that during times of disaster such as flooding, IT companies experience a huge demand for service. That can mean a partial solution could take even longer to deploy, whereas deploying a ready-to-go solution would take much less time.

Off-site backup | Cost: Low | Time to deploy: High

You still need workstations onto which to restore your backups, getting everything connected etc.

Cloud backup | Cost: Medium | Time to deploy: Medium

With your backups already in the cloud, and with virtual clones of all your physical servers ready to be booted up, this takes very little time. Bear in mind though that you still need workstations for your staff to work from.

Cloud-based infrastructure | Cost: Not as high as you might think | Time to deploy: No time/Always on

The most secure solution for office work on a day-to-day basis: hosted desktops with integrated VoIP.

With your entire team using this solution, disasters such as flooding get reduced to inconveniences.

Everyone can simply stay at home and work from there. Those without home computers can work at an internet café, shared office space or you could buy and deliver a laptop to accommodate their needs.