Technology has had a huge impact on all aspects of business. It has helped companies to streamline their systems, to work smarter and faster and to ultimately become more efficient and profitable. It also means that we now rely on technology more than ever. The data your company generates is critical to your business and as such it needs to be constantly backed up and kept secure to prevent a loss when disaster occurs.

A good disaster recovery plan will include strong procedures to recover the business after a crisis occurs. In the first instance, we take as many steps to ensure that clients can recover easily with minimal disruption. As part of our network installation services we implement backup solutions and as part of our support service we monitor the backup routines on a daily basis.

For those that require ultimate resilience for network uptime we advise and implement disaster prevention systems where we can provide a comprehensive solution that can recover from a disaster, usually within minutes.

Backup Solutions
The storage of your data is an essential element of your IT strategy. Cerulean’s expertise and experience enables us to support your data storage strategy in its entirety, from the infrastructure needed to the software required. Whether you are looking for Disk, Optical, Content Addressable Storage, Tape, Remote Storage or a combination, our solutions are designed to save you time, money and resources. Cerulean will select the most appropriate and efficient backup system for your company and will implement, monitor and maintain the system to ensure the safety and security of your data.

In the Event of Disaster
Where technology is affected in a disastrous situation, such as flood, fire or theft, one of the key elements is knowing the correct course of action to take. Although your insurance policy may cover the costs of a disaster, the insurance company will always look to you to minimise losses including business interruption claims. In any case, you will want to ensure that business interruption is kept to a minimum to preserve your business and customer base.

In the event of a disaster don’t panic!

We have solutions to minimise the disruption caused and get your business operational as quickly as possible. Where necessary we will liaise with all necessary third parties to bring your systems back online.

Disaster Recovery
Replacing and re-configuring your hardware When disaster strikes, but you still have premises from which to work, you may need to replace your hardware in a very short period of time. This needs to be carried out quickly and managed efficiently in order to minimise the impact on your business.

With access to hardware and software from main UK distributors Cerulean will quickly supply quality, branded hardware and configure it. Our experience of not only computer networks, but with accounting and sales systems implementation will enable us to bring key areas of the business to an operational level.

Providing Key Business Tools
In the event that your premises are inaccessible, it is imperative that your business is still able to function. We know that lost days can mean lost revenue and potential damage to customer goodwill. Cerulean provide a solution to this problem as a registered Application Service

Provider (ASP). We can immediately make available common applications such as Outlook, Excel,

Word etc. from our secure servers. We can also make available your important applications that are specific to your organisation. One of the huge benefits of this solution is that it can be accessed from any remote location that has an internet connection. This allows employees to work from home, another office, internet cafes etc.

Disaster Prevention
Preparing for and preventing a disaster In case the worst happens and your business suffers from an unforeseen disaster, it is a sensible idea to have contingency measures in place to minimise the impact on your business. Our Disaster Prevention offering works in conjunction with our DataVault and ASP solutions which allows you to access your critical data almost immediately following your systems failing. Your latest data is backed up regularly to our secure servers so that in the event of

a disaster you have the peace of mind of knowing that your current data is safe and, most importantly, immediately available. We also hold a version of your essential business applications (such as Outlook, Word, Excel etc.) on the server ready for you to use if required. Your data and applications are held on servers located in a secure data centre.

The data centre has an almost perfect up-time meaning that whenever disaster strikes you are safe in the knowledge that your business can carry on. When your internal hardware and systems are up and running again, the data is transferred back to you and your business can carry on again as usual.