How We Do IT:

Risk Assessment

By examining your company’s potential types of disruption, the criticality of your data, and your goal for recovery times, budget and resources, we can present options to best protect your critical business data.

In the Houston metropolitan area, storms and hurricanes are typical threats, but everything from water pipe breaks, power outages to network vulnerabilities enabling cyber attacks and more are possible.

Data Prioritization

Understanding how your data is created, and how critical it is to your business, will help determine how often and how the data should be backed up, whether it should be every 5 minutes or several times a day.

With a thorough assessment, your backup and recovery options based on your specific needs and budget are presented based on Industry Best Practices.

Repercussions of Downtime

Unplanned downtime is not a question of “If?“, but “When?”

• 24 % of companies said they experienced a full data disaster (1)
• 44% of small business have been the victim of a cyber attack (2)
• Average sized companies have 16 to 20 hours of network, system, or application downtime per year (3)
• 70% of small businesses that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year (4)

Data loss means downtime, and downtime will impact your bottom line with lost sales revenue, productivity, incurring cost to restore IT systems, compliance issues and damage to your company reputation. 

^{(1) Forrester Research Study
(2) National Small Business Association
(3) Gartner Group
(4) PricewaterhouseCooper}

Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR)

Crescent IT Systems offers Datto’s business continuity and disaster recovery solution (BCDR) that is built to decrease downtimes and prevent data loss.  Datto’s SIRIS BCDR can be deployed as a physical appliance, a virtual appliance, or as a software.

Built to ensure the business is always on and resilient to disasters, the SIRIS BCDR is a complete solution – local and cloud BCDR backed by 24x7x365 single-vendor support.

Our solution provides verified backups, instant virtualizations and cloud recovery and restore options for any scenario.  The  SIRIS BCDR can start up a virtual image of your failed server within a minute to act as the server until the original server is repaired.

Backups can be taken as often as 5 minutes with the option to start up a virtual image of the server either on-premise or in the cloud.  During hurricanes, power outages or storms, a SIRIS BCDR can give your company the ability to operate, even if your office facility is down, serving the remote users as the company server from the cloud or on-premise.

Ransomware Recovery

All backups are scanned for ransomware and mounted to ensure they are ready to restore. Simply ‘turn back the clock’ to a snapshot before the attack happened.

Business Continuity Plan (BCP) / Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

Have you experienced a flood in Hurricane Harvey?  Or did you lose power during the last ice storm?  These events cause serious and costly downtime that some companies sometimes never recover from.   We can help you operate your business from remote locations without missing a beat, designing a solution that keeps you connected and working during major event.

Power outages are now the major concern for many companies after the last ice storm.  We can also help you to equip your business with a standby electrical generator to keep your business running during electrical outages and backup internet solutions.

It is important that all businesses should have a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to be able to withstand threats to your business no matter where they originate.

Crescent IT Systems can help you with a BCP and DRP plans to ensure that your business is not a statistic after a major disruptive event.

Want to learn more about backup & recovery solutions that can save your business?