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Los Angeles’s Top Backup & Disaster Recovery Services

Companies and organizations need backup, disaster planning and recovery services today more than ever. But there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all, single disaster planning and recovery solution that would work for every company, least of all, your company. Fortunately, Digital Uppercut designs and manages backup and recovery plans based on the unique needs of each individual business or organization.

IT Disasters Come from Many Directions

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The word “disaster” conjures up images of cataclysmic events wreaking havoc over large areas: like a hurricane or earthquake. But when we talk about disasters, we also include the more likely scenarios, such as:

  • Extended loss of internet access
  • Extended power loss
  • Failure of a critical workstation
  • Failure of network hardware, such as a firewall, router, or essential server
  • Flood, fire, earthquake, storms
  • Human error
  • Malicious activities by a disgruntled employee
  • Hackers, viruses, and ransomware

An IT Disaster Planning Tale of Two Companies

You likely know this parable: the ant busily prepares the nest for winter while the grasshopper sits back, enjoying the fine weather and doing what grasshoppers do – it’s too busy to plan for bad weather. Then, winter hits and the grasshopper cannot survive.

Change a few words and you have a disaster recovery story where one company is so busy, they do not take time to create a disaster recovery plan while another organization, which is also very busy, gets help building a state-of-the-art disaster recovery plan. Here’s what happens when a IT disaster strikes our parable companies.

Result of a IT disaster without a Disaster Recovery Plan

Without access to your equipment and data, your organization potentially…

  • Must send employees home because there is no place to work
  • Loses all the company data
  • Can no longer pay vendors
  • Can’t collect invoice payments
  • Can’t pay employees
  • Cannot serve your customers
  • May face penalties for non-compliance with data protection regulations
  • Has its reputation damaged
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Result of a IT disaster with a Disaster Recovery Plan

Here’s what the company with a plan does in a disaster situation:

  • Allows employees to work from home where they access cloud-based systems and data
  • Continues daily operations
  • Pays vendors
  • Collects payments
  • Pays employees
  • Serves customers without interruption
  • Continues to manage and maintain all data
  • Remains in compliance with all regulations
  • Maintains its reputation
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IT Disaster Planning and Recovery is More than a Backup

Simple backups work okay for individuals, but organizations need more…a backup and disaster recovery plan that protects all essential data and provides access to data and mission-critical software as soon after the incident as possible.

A well-designed Backup & Disaster Recovery Plan naturally includes backups. However, it also anticipates and provides for disasters both caused by people and nature. Recovery plans must address the following:

  • Data backup routines, policies, and procedures that maintain multiple copies of mission-critical and sensitive data at protected locations.
  • Emergency operation plans to provide for temporary facilities, usually either on-site or off-site, to continue operations until the primary operations location comes back online.
  • Disaster recovery plans to provide longer-term operation capabilities at near-normal levels, typically offsite.
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Backup & Disaster Recovery Services We Provide in Los Angeles

Digital Uppercut helps Los Angeles businesses prepare for, respond to, and recover from every kind of data loss event, from accidental file deletion to ransomware attacks to full-site disasters.

Cloud Backup

On-Premise Backup

Hybrid Backup

Server Backup

Endpoint Backup

Email Archiving

Disaster Recovery Planning

Business Continuity Planning

Ransomware Recovery

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Before IT Disaster Recovery, You Need Disaster Prevention

The causes of many natural disasters are outside your control, but you can do your best to protect against them. Our cybersecurity services can help protect against disasters that result from bad actors, one part of which is our cybersecurity awareness training, which can help to prevent your staff from innocently allowing or aiding a cyber attack.

What’s Missing From Most IT Disaster Recovery Plans?

We’ve reviewed Backup & Disaster Recovery plans written by other IT companies that have backup systems and procedures for many possible events. But then we ask them one critical question that reveals that their disaster recovery planning is incomplete: “Have you tested it?”

The only way to ensure the Disaster Recovery part will work is by testing. The last thing you want is to believe that you are protected, only to suffer a severe loss because your plan failed to work correctly. Part of our Backup, Disaster Planning and Recovery Services includes testing the backup plans that we create.

This triangle represents the continuous cycle of Test, Verify, and Update of Backup and Recovery plans.

Los Angeles Backup and Disaster Recovery Experts

Our backup and disaster recovery services in Los Angeles are designed to keep you up and running after a disaster, and are a core part of our overall suite of IT solutions.

Don’t risk the future of your business on hope and luck. Talk to us about our backup, disaster planning and recovery services today.
Contact or call Digital Uppercut now at 213-398-8771.