Disaster Recovery (Replication) Solutions

No time for downtime? Protect your organisation against disasters as simple as a power cut to entire premises loss, with Now Restore’s DRaaS Replication services.

  • Integrates directly with Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Seamless failover of individual servers or your entire estate
  • Pre-built Failover Plans for stress-free invocation
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What is Disaster Recovery as a Service? Keeping your business operational!

With increasing reliance upon IT Systems, uptime is now more critical than ever. Surviving a disaster and ensuring your business stays online was challenging. Historically, Disaster Recovery required investment in specialist IT knowledge, the purchase and ongoing maintenance of a second Disaster Recovery site, secondary infrastructure, etc. Everything was double the work. Your IT Teams had to keep the lights on in the production systems, too. As such, reliability was a challenge.

Fast forward to today. Now Restore’s DRaaS platform brings the flexibility, scalability and ease of management required and expected of a Cloud platform. Take the hassle out of Disaster Recovery, and protect against any disaster, from accidental deletion, to ransomware, natural disasters and loss of infrastructure. Spin up your infrastructure in minutes - and only pay for the capacity you require, in a scalable model.

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How does DRaaS protect my business?

Unexpected outages and disasters are unfortunately more common than you’d think. Without the ability to recover from them, the consequences are disastrous, bringing your business to a potentially permanent closure.

Ensuring recoverability in these circumstances is therefore paramount. 2023 studies show that a whopping 51% of businesses that experience a disaster close within two years. Even more worryingly, 75% of small businesses don’t have a Disaster Recovery plan in place. 93% of businesses permanently close within a year following a data loss incident.

Prevention is always better than the cure. Now Restore’s DRaaS platform is designed for worry-free, affordable protection. Should a disaster strike, you can simply ‘spin up’ your infrastructure, replicated to our UK datacentre, within a matter of minutes.

  • Remove the requirement for a second site and secondary infrastructure
  • Utilise the Now Restore's expert knowledge
  • Reduce capex expenditure with monthly payments for only for what you use

Why trust Now Restore for Disaster Recovery?

Utilising industry-leading software with our own secure, reliable and fully UK-based Cloud platform, your business can benefit from Disaster Recovery without the cost and maintenance burden of your own secondary infrastructure. Survive even the most most catastrophic of disasters, from ransomware to entire building or infrastructure loss.

Secure seeding for data transfer

Either transfer your replicas over the internet, or utilise our fully encrypted seed servers, couriered directly to your premises for offline transfer.

Managed or Unmanaged

We can fully manage and maintain the solution with assisted failover, or give you complete control, depending on your business needs.

UK Tier 3 Datacentre

Replicate with peace of mind - our support and infrastructure is UK based, in datacentres with redundant power, cooling and connectivity.

Stress-free Failover Plans

Cloud Failover Plans within Veeam Backup & Replication allow single click failover of multiple VMs, pre-programmed to start in the right order.

Flexibility at the core

Replicate your virtual servers and colocate firewalls and other hardware for a seamless solution. Failover all or part of your environment.

Full reporting and testing

Our fully managed customers benefit from comprehensive testing and reporting handled by us. All customers benefit from inclusive testing days.

Frequently Asked Questions

Still have a question unanswered? Feel free to contact us, we'd be happy to help.

Yes – your data is fully isolated from other customers at the network layer, which segregates your network traffic in the case of invocation from other customers. You will be provided with either a virtual firewall, or optionally can collocate a physical firewall at our datacentre. Due to the abstracted nature of our platform, customers do not interface with our backend infrastructure. This ensures platform security by meaning each customer's data is segregated securely.

Once you purchase DRaaS services from Now Restore, you will be assigned a Hardware Plan which contains the necessary vCPU, RAM & Storage. You simply create a replication job, select our Cloud Hosts as the target and your data will make it to us. If you subscribe to our Cloud Backup (BaaS) services, you can even select for us to use the data already transferred to us, meaning you do not have to transfer all of your data over the internet again.

No, our solution can utilise your existing IP address scheme. Simply replicate your servers, and they will have the same IP configuration our end.

Yes – Now Restore offer Professional Services from our parent company. We’re experts in the field and are able to assist with design of the solution and specification, deployment, on-site IT staff training, ongoing maintenance and management, alongside creating full documentation. Contact us for more information on our Professional Services.

We can supply you with a block of public IPv4 / IPv6 addresses and depending on your requirements, a choice of network gateways, virtual or physical firewalls (collocated in our datacentre). For more complex deployments, we can even integrate directly with your WAN, providing a seamless failover experience.

Yes - you can either failover one or multiple virtual servers with the remainder in your usual production environment. Alternatively, you can failover your entire environment. Whilst powered on in Now Restore's Disaster Recovery environment, your virtual servers will keep the same IP configuration they had on-premises, integrating seamlessly with servers on-premise, even though they're in the same IP subnet.

A disaster can occur in a variety of ways. Our solution is incredibly flexible, and paired with our industry knowledge and expertise, we can develop a Disaster Recovery solution that can cover anything from single virtual server corruption to a loss of your entire building or IT infrastructure.

Most organisations will use their Internet Service Provider (ISP)'s IP addresses for their public facing services (such as Web Servers, SFTP servers, etc). If you use ISP-provided IP addresses, we will need to provide you with alternative IPs to use for your public facing services whilst in Disaster Recovery. We therefore recommend that you ensure all public facing services use DNS names, e.g. sftp.mycompany.com which will resolve to one of your ISP-provided IPs under normal circumstances, and one of Now Restore's if you invoke Disaster Recovery.

Now Restore's parent company, Flownet Solutions Ltd, operate their own BGP Network (ASN). If you are a larger organisation, or one with specialist requirements such as operating your own public IPv4 / IPv6 address space, we can announce these prefixes (subnets) for you, when you need to invoke Disaster Recovery, using BGP. This is a bespoke service from Now Restore, and is only applicable to a small number of customers. If you require this, please contact us for more information, where we can design a custom solution encompassing this.