Disaster Recovery Solutions

When a major IT incident strikes, every minute without systems costs your business. At Nivando, we design and implement disaster recovery infrastructures that get your critical systems back online fast — with defined recovery objectives, tested procedures and the technical foundations to make it happen.

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Disaster recovery is not the same as having backups. Backups protect your data. Disaster recovery ensures that when something catastrophic happens — a ransomware attack, a hardware failure, a data center outage or any other major incident — your business has the infrastructure, procedures and tested capability to restore operations within a defined and acceptable timeframe.

Without a proper disaster recovery infrastructure, recovery from a major incident is chaotic, slow and often incomplete. Systems are rebuilt from scratch, dependencies are discovered during the crisis rather than planned for in advance and recovery takes days or weeks instead of hours. For businesses that depend on continuous operations, this is simply not acceptable.

At Nivando, we design and implement disaster recovery solutions based on your specific recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives. We build the technical infrastructure required to meet those objectives — replication, failover systems, recovery environments and the documented procedures your team needs to execute a recovery efficiently and confidently.

How Your Disaster Recovery Solutions Work

We begin by identifying your critical systems and workloads — the applications, servers and data that your business cannot operate without. For each critical system, we define recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives based on your business requirements and risk tolerance. These objectives drive every technical decision in the disaster recovery design.

Based on your objectives, we design and implement the appropriate recovery infrastructure. This may include real-time or near-real-time replication to a secondary site or cloud environment, automated failover for the most critical systems, warm or cold standby environments for less time-sensitive workloads and documented step-by-step recovery procedures for every covered system.

Once your disaster recovery infrastructure is in place, we test it regularly. Recovery tests simulate real incidents and verify that systems can be restored within the defined objectives. Every test is documented and any gaps identified are addressed before a real incident occurs. Your disaster recovery capability is only as reliable as the last time it was tested.

Why It Matters

01. Defined Recovery Objectives

Recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives define exactly how fast systems must be restored and how much data loss is acceptable. Every element of your disaster recovery infrastructure is designed and tested against these objectives so you know precisely what to expect when you need it.

03. Ransomware Recovery

Ransomware is one of the most common causes of disaster recovery activation. Your solutions include isolated recovery environments and immutable backup integration that allow you to restore clean systems without paying a ransom, even in a worst-case attack scenario.

02. Tested and Verified

An untested disaster recovery plan is not a plan — it is an assumption. We conduct regular recovery tests that simulate real incidents and verify that your infrastructure performs as designed. Gaps are identified and resolved before a real incident occurs.

04. Reduced Recovery Time

Businesses without disaster recovery infrastructure take an average of 18 days to fully recover from a major incident. With a properly designed and tested recovery solution, critical systems can be restored in hours rather than days, dramatically reducing the financial and operational impact.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about our disaster recovery solutions.

1. What is the difference between disaster recovery and backup management?

Backup management ensures your data is protected and restorable on a day-to-day basis. Disaster recovery covers the broader infrastructure and procedures required to restore full business operations after a major incident. Disaster recovery uses backups as one of its inputs but goes much further — covering system replication, failover infrastructure, recovery environments and documented procedures.

2. What are recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives?

A recovery time objective defines the maximum acceptable time for a system to be restored after an incident. A recovery point objective defines the maximum acceptable amount of data loss, measured in time. For example, an RTO of 4 hours means critical systems must be back online within 4 hours. An RPO of 1 hour means no more than 1 hour of data can be lost. These objectives drive the design of your recovery infrastructure.

3. Do you provide cloud-based disaster recovery?

Yes. Cloud platforms provide cost-effective and flexible disaster recovery infrastructure, allowing critical workloads to be failed over to cloud environments without the cost of maintaining a dedicated secondary data center. We design hybrid disaster recovery solutions that use both on-premise and cloud infrastructure where appropriate.

4. How often do you test disaster recovery procedures?

We conduct regular recovery tests on a schedule agreed with you — typically quarterly for critical systems. Tests simulate real incidents and verify that systems can be restored within defined objectives. Results are documented and any issues identified during testing are resolved before the next test cycle.

5. What is the difference between disaster recovery and business continuity planning?

Disaster recovery focuses on the technical infrastructure and procedures required to restore IT systems after a major incident. Business continuity planning covers the broader organizational response — how your business continues to operate during and after a disruption, including non-IT processes, communication plans and stakeholder management. Both complement each other as part of a complete resilience strategy.