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Disaster Recovery Service

Your resiliency plan for any disruptive event affecting your IT operations.

Comprehensive Disaster Recovery Solutions

AIMS offers a full spectrum of disaster recovery plans designed to address every potential risk and ensure your business stays resilient, no matter the challenge. From planning and recovery to data protection and workspace solutions, we’ve got you covered.

Recovery Consultancy and Planning Services

Expert help with consultation and planning to minimise the impact of any loss of your virtual business functions due to a disaster while addressing your business disaster recovery metrics: Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).

Our recovery strategies are built around clearly defined service tiers that align speed and data protection with operational priorities. These options range from near-zero downtime for mission-critical systems to cost-optimised models for secondary workloads.

Disaster Recovery Management

Expert assistance with setting previously mapped-out processes such as Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Business Impact Analysis and more in motion when disaster strikes.

Data Centre-Disaster Recovery (DC-DR)

A solution that offers both primary and secondary co-location sites and its L2VPN inter-data centre connection to satisfy your physical disaster recovery needs in case of an emergency.

TIME Cloud Services Recovery Site

This cloud-based disaster recovery site can be deployed if the primary data centre is incapacitated, enabling your business to recover fully.

Off-site Tape Management

An automated and centralised workflow management of physical backup tapes to avoid data loss in the event of a natural or manmade disaster, providing a reliable solution for disaster restoration.

Disaster Recovery Workspace

A secure and customisable private or shared alternative workspace where key personnel can be relocated during any disruption, ensuring disaster recovery and business continuity.

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) – Fully Managed, Cloud-Enabled Protection

Beyond physical disaster recovery infrastructure, AIMS delivers DRaaS, a managed, subscription-based solution designed to provide rapid failover, continuous replication, and scalable recovery environments without heavy capital expenditure.

Our DRaaS capabilities include:
  • Cloud-based and hybrid recovery environments.
  • Continuous data replication aligned to defined RTO and RPO targets.
  • Managed failover orchestration and recovery execution.
  • 24/7 monitoring and incident response support.

This ensures enterprises benefit not only from secure facilities, but from actively managed recovery readiness.

Why AIMS Disaster Recovery Services?

AIMS delivers a comprehensive disaster recovery approach that combines proactive risk prevention with swift, effective responses to unexpected disruptions. We anticipate potential risks and implement preventative measures to safeguard your systems while ensuring your business can recover quickly when challenges arise.

Best Practices

We leverage decades of disaster recovery best practices and expertise to ensure that our solutions and tools can help you achieve your recovery targets.

Holistic Strategy

With highly trained engineers, tried-and-tested processes, policies, and technologies, our IT disaster recovery plan ensures that your business continues no matter what.

Flexibility and Operational Scalability

Our data protection, environmental, and infrastructure recovery solutions are designed to be scalable and adaptable across different systems, budgets, and operational needs.

These recovery models support both large enterprises and growing businesses, offering predictable, subscription-based disaster recovery solutions.

Business Resiliency

With professional server hosting and replication, failover services, and more, we help keep your business processes resilient against planned and unplanned downtime.

Ransomware and Cyber Resilience

In addition to natural disasters and infrastructure failures, modern disaster recovery must address cyber threats such as ransomware and data corruption. At AIMS, we incorporate:

  • Secure backup and replication environments.
  • Segmented recovery networks.
  • Isolated failover environments.
  • Regular integrity testing of recovery datasets.

24/7 Managed Support and Dedicated DR Expertise

To us, disaster recovery goes beyond infrastructure. It is about response readiness. We provide:

  • Round-the-clock monitoring and support.
  • Dedicated disaster recovery engineers.
  • Structured escalation protocols.
  • Periodic DR health checks and review sessions.

Make AIMS Your Trusted Disaster Recovery Solution

When disaster strikes, AIMS guarantees business continuity by quickly restoring your critical systems with minimal downtime, ensuring your IT operations stay up and running.

FAQs About AIMS Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

1. What is disaster recovery as a service?

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a cloud-based service that enables businesses to back up their critical data, systems, and IT infrastructure to ensure quick recovery in the event of natural or man-made disasters.

DRaaS, like AIMS, offers businesses the flexibility to restore operations quickly without the need for expensive on-site infrastructure or maintaining an in-house IT team.

2. What are the key components of AIMS’ disaster recovery plan?

At AIMS, we offer end-to-end disaster recovery solutions, from reliable data backups and system replication to recovery strategies and tailored recovery plans designed to restore critical systems swiftly.

Additionally, our services include regular disaster recovery testing and updates to ensure that your disaster recovery plan remains effective and up-to-date, so you can confidently rely on it when needed most.

Our comprehensive services ensure your business is prepared for any disruption.

3. Why is a disaster recovery plan important for businesses?

With disaster recovery preparedness, your business can benefit from:

  • Data protection: Regular backups ensure your critical data is safe and can be quickly restored, keeping your systems in an operational state.
  • Reputation management: Allows you to maintain service levels and customer trust by reducing the risk of service outages, ensuring your business stays reliable.
  • Cost control: Minimising system downtime helps your business reduce the financial impact of lost revenue and expensive emergency fixes.
  • Maintain productivity: Quick recovery allows your employees to get back to work without delays, ensuring smooth operations and reducing workflow disruptions.

Don’t wait for a disaster to strike! Contact us now to learn how to protect your business with a tailored disaster recovery plan.

4. What is the difference between RTO and RPO in disaster recovery?

When it comes to disaster recovery, understanding its two key metrics, Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO), is crucial for managing downtime and data loss.

RTO: Refers to the maximum time allowed to restore a system after an outage, defining how quickly your business can get back up and running.

RPO: Quantifies the maximum amount of data you can afford to lose before it negatively impacts your business, determining how often you should back up your data.

Depending on your needs, AIMS can customise your disaster recovery solutions to meet your business requirements. Contact us today!

5. Does AIMS offer fully managed DRaaS with defined RTO and RPO tiers?

Yes. AIMS provides managed Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions that allow businesses to select recovery tiers based on required Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).

These tiers help align recovery performance with operational priorities and budget considerations, ensuring that your most critical systems receive the fastest restoration and highest data integrity during an event.

Looking for a specific tier? Talk to our experts to find the right fit for your business.

6. What are the main components of AIMS' Disaster Recovery Plan?

The main components of AIMS' disaster recovery plan are designed to ensure effective recovery and continuity of business operations in the event of a disruption. Here are the key elements:

  • Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis (BIA): We conduct thorough assessments to identify potential risks and vulnerabilities that could impact business operations. The BIA evaluates the potential consequences of disruptions, helping prioritise recovery efforts.
  • Recovery Objectives: Clear Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) are established. RTO defines the maximum acceptable downtime, while RPO indicates the maximum allowable data loss, guiding the recovery strategies.
  • Backup and Data Protection: We implement comprehensive backup strategies, including regular on-site and off-site backups of critical data to ensure data integrity and minimise recovery time.
  • Recovery Strategies: The plan outlines specific recovery strategies tailored to different scenarios, such as utilising hot sites, cold sites, or cloud-based solutions for efficient restoration of services.
  • Communication Plan: Communication protocols are established to ensure that all stakeholders are informed during a disaster. This includes internal notifications and updates to customers and partners.
  • Testing and Validation: Regular testing of the disaster recovery plan is conducted to identify weaknesses and ensure that all team members understand their roles in the recovery process.
  • Documentation: Comprehensive documentation of procedures, workflows, and configurations is maintained to ensure quick reference during an incident.
  • Ongoing Review and Improvement: AIMS continuously reviews and updates the disaster recovery plan to adapt to changes in technology, business processes, and emerging threats.

These components work together to create a robust disaster recovery framework that helps our clients maintain operational continuity during unexpected events.

7. How frequently does AIMS conduct disaster recovery testing or drills?

AIMS conducts structured disaster recovery testing and validation exercises to ensure recovery plans remain effective. Clients may participate in scheduled drills and recovery simulations to validate system readiness and response processes.

Regular testing ensures that when a real-world disruption occurs, your team and our engineers can execute the recovery protocol with confidence and speed.

8. Can AIMS protect against ransomware-related disruptions?

Yes. AIMS integrates secure backup strategies, isolated recovery environments, and segmented failover processes into its disaster recovery framework.

By maintaining "air-gapped" style recovery datasets and segmented networks, we help minimize the impact of ransomware and ensure you have a clean version of your data to restore from in the event of a cyber-attack.

9. Is AIMS Disaster Recovery suitable for hybrid or multi-cloud environments?

Yes. AIMS supports hybrid disaster recovery architectures, integrating colocation, cloud recovery sites, and inter-data centre connectivity.

Whether your primary workload is on-premise, in a private cloud, or across multiple public cloud providers, our infrastructure enables seamless failover and data synchronization across diverse environments.