Business Continuity & DR

For elastic scalability Layots pairs on-premise backup appliances with object storage tiers in AWS S3, Azure Blob or Google Cloud Storage, so retention grows without hardware refresh. We deploy Veeam, Commvault and Rubrik depending on your virtualisation stack, with immutable backup copies to defeat ransomware encryption of the backup set itself.

RTO is how long you can be down; RPO is how much data you can afford to lose. Most enterprise line-of-business systems target an RTO of under four hours and an RPO of under fifteen minutes, while transactional or financial systems often require near-zero RPO through synchronous replication. Layots sets both per workload tier rather than applying one target across the estate.

Layots recommends a full failover test twice a year and a partial tabletop or component-level test each quarter. Untested DR is the single most common cause of failed recovery, so our managed continuity service schedules and runs these tests, then issues a report with actual measured RTO against the contracted target.

Business Continuity is the overarching strategy to keep your business running during a disruption. Disaster Recovery is a subset of BC focused specifically on the technical process of restoring IT systems, data, and infrastructure after a catastrophic event.

RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is the maximum acceptable time your systems can be down. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is the maximum amount of data loss your business can tolerate (e.g., losing 4 hours of data). Layots helps you define and achieve these targets through automated failover and frequent backups.

Yes. We implement automated DR orchestration that detects primary site failure and automatically redirects traffic and spins up virtual machines in a secondary data center or cloud region, minimizing manual intervention and downtime.

We use 'immutable' backup technology and air-gapped storage. This means once data is backed up, it cannot be modified or deleted for a set period, even if an attacker gains administrative access to your primary network, ensuring you always have a clean copy to restore from.