Whether you need continuous data protection or expedited disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery Group’s Virtual Disaster Recovery services improve business continuity and minimize downtime based on your recovery objectives (RTO, RPO).Disasters and outages can have a profound effect on both revenue and reputation. A solid disaster recovery plan must go beyond simple in-house or tape-based backup – and include offsite protection, encryption, secure storage, and speedy data recovery. Aggressive disaster recovery plans may also incorporate additional data replication (to a second backup facility), hot or warm dedicated servers, and more.Disaster Recovery Group delivers proven disaster recovery solutions – including online backup and recovery. With true continuous data protection and high availability options, Disaster Recovery Group provides simple, expedient restores while ensuring the utmost in security.The Importance of Putting a Disaster Recovery in place:

When considering a disaster recovery strategy, it is important to remember what is at stake:

The Richmond House Group’s research indicates that 20% of SMBs suffer a major disaster every 5 years, and the US Bureau of Labour reports that 93% of companies that suffer a significant data loss are out of business within 5 years. Despite this, a 2007 study conducted by Storage Magazine shows that 89% of organizations test their disaster recovery plan once a year or less.

Disaster Recovery Group’s offers offsite online backup and data archiving solutions with the option of replicating another copy to a second world-class datacenter – 1,000 miles away from Disaster Recovery Group’s primary site. Your geographic contingency plan is built-in to the original backup in one simultaneous, automated process.

Virtual Disaster Recovery Features:

The perfect blend of price and performance, Virtual Disaster Recovery services enable you to begin recovery, re-route users, and continue business in the event of an emergency or outage – with no capital equipment costs and being restricted to a bricks and mortar site/s.

Virtual Disaster Recovery: Rapid, Hardware-Free Recovery Disaster Recovery to a Managed Virtual Environment ensures rapid recovery in the event of an outage or disaster by virtualising your production servers in Disaster Recovery Group’s secure, remote datacentre.

Active Recovery Mode: Eliminating hardware investment and compatibility issues for the recovery at Disaster Recovery Group’s datacentre, Disaster Recovery Group’s VDR maintains an image of your data drive, including operating system and applications, in an active virtual environment. This can be tested at anytime; the active virtualized image can be updated via Internet whenever necessary. In the event of a disaster or outage, your backup data can be recovered to the virtualized environment at and users can be re-routed to continue work as usual – anywhere and anytime with minimal downtime.

Faster Recovery: Disaster Recovery Group’s active, virtualized recovery environment offers all the advantages of warm servers – saving you a significant step in the recovery process. Failover to your active, virtual recovery servers and re-route users to the remote virtual environment while your primary site is rebuild.

Hardware-Free: Virtualized recovery provides cost savings that enable SMBs to have advanced, enterprise-level recovery solutions. Virtualized recovery eliminates hardware procurement – as well as compatibility issues – for the recovery at Disaster Recovery Group’s datacenter.

Virtual Disaster Recovery Benefits

• Rapid, Economical Recovery
• Avoid Travel to Datacenter & Skip a Time-Consuming Step in the Recovery Process
• No Capital Expense for Recovery Servers
• No Hardware Compatibility Issues
• Remote User Access to Virtual Recovery Environment following Disaster
• Quick & Easy Implementation
• World-Class fully secure and full redundancy Datacentre
• Easy Recovery Testing