// DATA CENTRE / STORAGE & DATA PROTECTION
Backups that actually restore when ransomware hits.
Too many estates discover their backups do not work at the worst possible moment. We design and deploy the storage and data-protection estate, test the restores until they prove out, and hand it over with runbooks under your brand.
Scope a data protection buildA backup nobody has restored is a hope, not a plan.
Roughly one backup in three fails when a real restore is attempted, and ransomware now goes after the backups before it touches production. Meanwhile data volumes keep doubling and an hour of downtime costs most organisations into six figures. The gap is rarely the backup software; it is an estate that was never designed around recovery, never made immutable, and never actually tested. We close it: all-flash primary storage on Pure or NetApp, modern backup on Veeam, Cohesity or Rubrik, an immutable air-gapped tier, DR runbooks with agreed RPO and RTO, and tested restores that prove the data comes back. Designed, deployed, tested and handed over for your team, or the client's, to operate.
What we deploy.
Primary Storage Design
All-flash and NVMe primary storage on Pure Storage, NetApp or Dell PowerStore, sized to the real workload rather than a vendor default. We design the array, the data services and the protection policies, then deploy it ready for production.
Backup Modernization
Legacy backup replaced with Veeam, Cohesity or Rubrik, designed around the 3-2-1-1-0 rule: three copies, two media, one offsite, one immutable, zero recovery errors. Built, configured and validated, then handed to your team to run.
Immutable & Air-Gapped Recovery
A recovery copy ransomware cannot reach: immutable object lock and air-gapped vaults that stay clean even when the production estate is encrypted. We design the immutability tier so there is always something untouched to restore from.
DR Design & Runbooks
Disaster recovery built on Zerto or VMware Site Recovery Manager, with RPO and RTO targets agreed per workload before anything is engineered. The design ships with a written runbook your operators follow under pressure, not a vague intention.
Tested Restores & DR Drills
Proof, not a green dashboard. We run real restores and failover drills against the design, capture the actual recovery times, and fix what does not meet target before handover. A backup nobody has restored is a hope, not a plan.
Data Lifecycle & Archive
Tiering and archive so cold data stops sitting on expensive primary flash: policy-driven movement to lower-cost and object tiers, with retention aligned to the client's compliance obligations. Designed, deployed and documented, then yours to operate.
The numbers behind the recovery gap.
How the options compare.
What your client gets from a legacy backup setup, a generic reseller, or our team under your brand.
Storage and data protection, answered straight.
01 What is the difference between immutable and traditional backup?
A traditional backup can be modified or deleted, which means ransomware that reaches the backup server can encrypt the backups too. An immutable backup cannot be changed for a set retention window: object lock and air-gapped vaults keep a clean copy even while the production estate is being encrypted. It is the difference between having a recovery point and having one the attacker already destroyed.
02 How do RPO and RTO drive the design?
RPO is how much data you can afford to lose, measured in time; RTO is how long you can afford to be down. They are the two numbers that decide the architecture. A tight RPO pushes toward continuous replication on Zerto; a relaxed one allows periodic snapshots. A tight RTO needs orchestrated failover, not a manual rebuild. We agree both per workload first, then design to hit them, because building backwards from a guess is how estates end up over-engineered in one place and dangerously thin in another.
03 Do you run our backups for us?
No. We design, deploy and test the storage and data-protection estate, then hand it over with runbooks. We are not a backup-as-a-service provider and we do not operate your backups on an ongoing basis. You operate it, or the client does, or you offer it onward as your own managed service. Our job is to build it correctly, prove the restores work, and hand you something your team can run with confidence.
04 How do you handle ransomware recovery?
By designing for the assumption that the primary estate will one day be encrypted. That means an immutable, air-gapped recovery tier the attacker cannot reach, a documented recovery sequence, and tested restores that prove the clean copy comes back inside the RTO. With average ransomware recovery measured in weeks across the industry, the design difference between a tested immutable copy and an untested backup is the difference between days and a quarter.
05 On-prem or cloud for backup targets?
Often both, and the 3-2-1-1-0 rule is why. Local copies give you the fastest restore for everyday failures; an offsite or cloud copy survives a site loss; an immutable copy survives ransomware. We design the target mix to the client's recovery objectives, data egress costs and compliance needs rather than defaulting everything to one location, because a single target is a single point of failure.
06 How do you prove the restores actually work?
We run them. Before handover we perform real restores and DR failover drills against the design, recover live workloads, and measure the actual RPO and RTO achieved. If a restore misses target we fix the design and run it again. The deliverable includes the drill results, so you and the client see proof the estate recovers rather than a backup job that merely reports success.
Tell us what your clients need.
A tri-cloud migration. A 200-site SD-WAN rollout. A security architecture before NIS2 hits. An AI system your client is asking about next quarter. We scope it, staff it, and deliver it under your brand. One conversation tells us if we are the right team.