Data Backup and Disaster Recovery

In the digital era, your data is your most valuable asset. It represents customer relationships, financial records, intellectual property, and operational history. Losing it—due to hardware failure, cyberattack, natural disaster, or human error—is not a risk you can afford to take.
At Present Future, we provide comprehensive solutions that guarantee your business continuity. We don’t just copy your files; we build a complete, resilient system that ensures that when the unexpected happens, you can recover quickly, efficiently, and with minimal downtime. We transform data loss from a catastrophic event into a manageable incident.

1. The Data Backup Imperative: Protecting Your Core Digital Assets

Effective data protection begins with a robust and consistent backup strategy tailored to your specific regulatory and operational needs. We move beyond simple file storage to focus on recoverability.

■ Strategic Backup Planning and Architecture
A successful backup is based on a foundation of clear strategy, advanced architecture, and adherence to industry best practices.
◾ The Three-Two-One Rule Implementation (The Foundation): We strictly adhere to the industry standard:
   * Three versions of your information (the primary one and two duplicate).
   * Two different media types (e.g., fast local disk and secured cloud storage).
   * One copy stored securely offsite (ensuring geographic resilience).
◾ Tiered Storage Strategy: We implement a structure where frequently accessed, mission-critical data (Tier One) is backed up more often and on faster media, while archival or less-critical data uses more cost-effective, long-term storage.
◾ Source-Side Deduplication and Compression: Utilizing advanced technologies to reduce the size of backup sets before transmission. This minimizes the required backup window and drastically cuts down on required bandwidth and cloud storage costs.

■ Comprehensive Scope of Data Coverage
We ensure all critical business data and systems are covered, regardless of location or platform, moving beyond simple file backups.
◾ Image-Level (Bare-Metal) Backups: Capturing complete operating system, application, and data images. This allows for rapid bare-metal restoration, enabling recovery to entirely new or different hardware, bypassing lengthy operating system reinstallation.
◾ Cloud Application Data Protection: Recognizing that cloud providers offer service availability, but not robust data retention. We implement specialized backup for environments like Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive) and Google Workspace to protect against accidental deletion, malicious activity, and sync errors.
◾ Application-Consistent Backups: Utilizing native agents to ensure databases (Structured Query Language, Oracle) and enterprise applications are quiesced (temporarily paused) during the backup. This guarantees the data is in a transactional, usable state upon recovery, eliminating data corruption risk.
◾ Virtual Environment Mastery: Employing agentless backup and replication solutions specifically designed for hypervisors (like VMware and Hyper-V), allowing for extremely fast recovery of entire virtual machines without complex host-level management.

2. Disaster Recovery: The Focus on Business Continuity

Disaster Recovery is the strategic move from data copies to operational capability. Our focus is on minimizing the downtime gap between disaster and full recovery.

◼ Defining and Guaranteeing Recovery Objectives
The core of effective Disaster Recovery lies in setting realistic and guaranteed recovery metrics.
◾ Recovery Time Objective (RTO):  The maximum acceptable downtime for a system or application. Our planning defines tiers of service, targeting recovery times measured in minutes for critical production systems through instant virtualization.
◾ Recovery Point Objective (RPO): The maximum acceptable data loss (age of data lost). Through near-continuous replication (often as frequently as every five minutes), we achieve recovery points measured in single digits of minutes, preserving almost all transactional changes.
◾ Automated Runbook Orchestration: We develop detailed, automated scripts that dictate the precise, sequential order in which systems must be recovered (e.g., Domain Controller first, then Database Server, then Application Server). This removes human error and guarantees a fast, consistent startup of the entire production environment.
◼ Advanced Recovery Technologies and Architecture
We leverage modern Disaster Recovery as a Service platforms to facilitate the quickest possible switch from a failed environment to a fully operational standby environment.
◾ Instant Virtualization and Failover: The key to achieving minimal Recovery Time Objective. We enable the instant boot of a server image directly from the backup appliance or cloud repository. This allows your team to continue working in a fully operational virtual environment while the primary system is repaired.
◾ Immutable and Isolated Storage: Protecting your ability to recover requires protecting the backup data itself. We use Immutable Storage which prevents data from being deleted or altered for a defined period, providing the ultimate defense against ransomware.
◾ Geographic Redundancy: Replicating data to secure, independent data centers in different regions. This ensures total protection against localized events like floods, fires, or region-wide power outages.
◾ Failback Automation: Establishing tested procedures for seamlessly returning operations from the recovery site to your repaired primary site without data corruption or interruption.

3. Validation, Testing, and Compliance Management

A recovery plan is merely a theory until it is proven in practice. Our managed service ensures continuous readiness through rigorous validation.

◼ Non-Disruptive Disaster Simulation
We turn theoretical plans into proven outcomes through scheduled testing.
◾ Scheduled Sandbox Testing: Performing isolated, full-system recovery tests in a virtual ‘bubble’ environment without impacting your live production systems. This verifies that systems boot correctly, applications function, and recovery objectives are consistently met.
◾ Automated Verification and Reporting: We automatically verify the success of every backup and recovery process, capturing boot screenshots and providing detailed audit reports. This validation confirms recoverability for compliance needs.
◾ Change Management Integration: Ensuring that every major change to your production environment (e.g., adding a new server, upgrading a database) is immediately reflected and validated in the backup and recovery infrastructure.
◼ Continuous Monitoring and Security
Our professional management ensures your recovery environment is always ready.
◾ Real-Time Replication Monitoring: Monitoring the health and synchronization status of all replicas and failover targets 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
◾ Ransomware Integrity Checks: Implementing advanced systems that continuously scan backup images for signs of encryption or corruption, guaranteeing you have a clean recovery point.
◾ Lifecycle Management: Taking responsibility for the ongoing health, patching, storage optimization, and retention policy enforcement of all backup appliances and cloud repositories.

4. Why Choose Present Future for Data Protection?

◾ Managed Service, Not Just Software: We provide end-to-end management, removing the burden of daily monitoring, troubleshooting, and testing from your internal team.
◾ Guaranteed Recovery Outcomes: We deliver contracted Service Level Agreements for Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective, giving you concrete, measurable certainty.
◾ Compliance Ready Solutions: Our processes provide the verifiable, secure retention and auditable recovery logs necessary for sectors with strict regulatory requirements (e.g., healthcare, finance).
◾ Cost-Effective Resilience: Our subscription-based model eliminates the massive capital expenditure and complexity of building and maintaining your own secondary data center.

Don’t Wait for Disaster to Strike. Guarantee Your Recovery.

Data loss is the most expensive operational risk your business faces. Secure your data, and secure your future with guaranteed recovery times.
◼ Take the Next Step Toward Guaranteed Resilience:
📑 Schedule a Risk-Free Data Audit: Our experts will analyze your current backup solution, identify critical gaps, and expose hidden vulnerabilities in your recovery plan.
📑 Calculate Your True Cost of Downtime: Understand your specific Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective needs based on the potential financial and reputational impact of a system failure.
📑 Book a Live Recovery Demonstration: See Instant Virtualization in action, demonstrating how we can restore your entire production server infrastructure in minutes, not days.
📑 Receive Your Customized Continuity Roadmap: Get a detailed proposal that outlines the exact steps and costs required to meet your specific compliance and recovery objectives.

📞Call Our Continuity Specialists Today.
When the worst happens, your business will keep running