Backup and recovery have been at the core of our business since our inception. We understand that in today's regulatory climate and at the speed in which technology helps modern businesses to operate, that data loss and system downtime are unacceptable to many. Central to this is to ensure that your business has a backup and recovery strategy which works, is saleable and allows your business to be up and running as quickly as it needs to be.

Like many things, the proper backup and recovery of information technology systems has many layers and many different approaches and solutions. From choosing the right software, hardware and infrastructure through to ensuring you have a good monitoring, change control and testing in place.

Databarracks has unparallel experience of most of the worlds leading backup, replication and recovery software and hardware available today. We have customers who have been using our services for nearly a decade and so we know what will work today and what is needed to ensure that your technology is still relevant tomorrow.

From initial design, through to cost analysis, business impact analysis and testing Databarracks are able to offer advice to businesses of all sizes on the best way to deliver a cost effective and workable data backup and system recovery strategy.

More and more businesses would like to move their IT into a secure and reliable hosting centre. Power, cooling and fire suppression means that keeping your It in your own communications environment can be risky and a lot more costly than hosting your environments elsewhere.

Finding the right hosting provider, ensuring you have a good project plan and ensuring it is executed properly can be challenging. Deciding where your IT is kept; from ensuring it is accessible yet far engouh away from your business premises to be safe and ensuring your employees have the right access to be able to work as efficiently as if your IT was in your basement can be complex. From connectivity through to re-location and advice on the best facility, Databarracks can help you decide which is the best way to move your systems out to a third party hosting provider or to data centre.

Cloud is becoming a buzz word in information technology today, but understanding what the cloud is and more importantly how it can help is a mine field for many. Cloud applications, cloud infrastructure, software as a service are all terms which are thrown around every day but making them make sense for your business can be difficult and complex.

There are many cloud providers out there, from infrastructure providers through to software providers, from large through to small. Databarracks can help you make sense of the cloud, choose the right provider and make sure that your business and It delivery is not effected. A great use of the cloud is where the business can not tell the difference and Databarracks can help to ensure that your business can make use of the cost, scalability and ease of the cloud without compromising on end user experience, system performance or recovery.

Virtualisation can be a key tool in ensuring your company's IT systems and applications are cost effective, scalable, secure and easy to manage. Choosing the right virtual platform, hardware infrastructure, monitoring and migration tools can be difficult. Making the best decisions early on in a virtualisation project can be critical to ensuring that your business makes the most out of the technology that is available. Not all applications can be virtualised and making bad storage or hardware decisions can be worse than not virtualising at all.

Many companies make the mistake of not ensuring their underlying hardware is suitable and resilient enough to virtualise sometimes causing untold problems. Benefits of virtualisation can be great but unlike with a physical server where if it goes down you have lost your application, if you lose your virtual environment then you have lost everything. Choosing Databarracks to help you design your virtualisation will ensure you have the best possible options available to you which will not only suit your budget but also mean you make the best purchasing choices.