Disaster recovery & business continuity
Outages, ransomware, a deleted table or a whole region going down: what matters is how fast you're back. We plan business continuity, design disaster recovery around your RTO and RPO, and run drills that measure your real mean time to restore and mean time to recover.
Everything you need, nothing you don't
Business impact analysis
We rank systems by what an hour of downtime or lost data actually costs, so recovery effort goes where it matters.
RTO & RPO targets
We agree clear recovery time and recovery point objectives for each system, signed off by the business.
DR architecture
Backups, cross-region replicas, pilot light, warm standby or active-active on AWS and GCP, matched to each target.
Ransomware-resilient backups
Immutable, encrypted backups in a separate account, with vault locks, so an attacker can't delete your way back.
Automated failover
Environments rebuilt from infrastructure as code, with step-by-step failover and failback runbooks.
DR drills & BCP
Scheduled drills that measure mean time to restore and recover, plus BCP documents and evidence for auditors and regulators.
How an engagement runs
Impact analysis
We map critical services, dependencies and the cost of downtime and data loss.
Set targets
RTO and RPO for each service, agreed with business owners.
Design & build
We pick the DR strategy for each workload and build it as code.
Drill
We fail over for real and measure detection, restore and recovery times.
Improve & report
We fix the gaps, update the BCP and report results to leadership.
Four ways to recover, each at a different cost
Not every system needs active-active. We match each workload to the strategy its RTO and RPO actually require, so you don't overpay for resilience you don't need.
Backup & restore
Regular, immutable backups copied to another region or account, restored when needed.
- RPO
- Hours
- RTO
- Hours
- Cost
- ₹
Pilot light
Core data replicated continuously. Compute is scaled up from code only during a disaster.
- RPO
- Minutes
- RTO
- Tens of minutes
- Cost
- ₹₹
Warm standby
A scaled-down copy of production runs all the time and scales up to take traffic.
- RPO
- Seconds to minutes
- RTO
- Minutes
- Cost
- ₹₹₹
Multi-site active-active
Several regions serve traffic at once. Losing one barely registers for users.
- RPO
- Near zero
- RTO
- Near zero
- Cost
- ₹₹₹₹
RTO, RPO and MTTR in plain words
These are the numbers your board, auditors and customers care about. We define them with you, design for them and measure them in every drill.
Recovery time objective
The longest an outage can last before the business impact is unacceptable. It's your target for restoring service.
Recovery point objective
How much data, measured in time, you can afford to lose. An RPO of 5 minutes means backups or replication must never fall more than 5 minutes behind.
Mean time to detect
The average time between something breaking and your team knowing about it. Good monitoring cuts this from hours to minutes.
Mean time to restore
The average time from an incident until users can use the service again, even if some features are temporarily reduced.
Mean time to recover
The average time until everything is fully back to normal: data reconciled, full capacity and redundancy restored.
Business continuity plan
How the whole business keeps running during a disruption: people, processes, suppliers and communication, not just IT.
Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between RTO and RPO?
RTO (recovery time objective) is how long you can afford to be down. RPO (recovery point objective) is how much recent data you can afford to lose. A system might have an RTO of one hour and an RPO of five minutes.
Mean time to restore vs mean time to recover: what's the difference?
Mean time to restore is how long it takes on average until users can use the service again, possibly with some features reduced. Mean time to recover is how long until everything is fully back to normal, with data reconciled and redundancy restored. The terms are often used interchangeably, so we define them explicitly with you.
What's the difference between disaster recovery and BCP?
Disaster recovery covers getting technology back: systems, data and infrastructure. A business continuity plan covers keeping the whole business running: people, processes, suppliers, customer communication and decision-making during a disruption. DR is one part of the BCP.
How often should we test disaster recovery?
At least once or twice a year for full failover drills, and more often for backup restore tests. Regulated businesses usually need documented drills as evidence. Untested DR plans tend to fail when they're needed.
Does disaster recovery double our cloud bill?
Rarely. Backup and restore or pilot light strategies add a small fraction of production cost. We reserve warm standby and active-active for the systems whose RTO and RPO really need them.
Can you help NBFCs and payment companies with RBI BCP requirements?
Yes. We design DR and BCP for regulated lenders and payment businesses, run the drills and prepare the documentation your auditors and inspection teams ask for.
Often paired with
Multi-cloud & multi-region setup
Active-active and active-passive designs across regions and across AWS and GCP, with failover we've tested.
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