We design, implement, and validate disaster recovery architectures that protect your organisation against the business-threatening scenarios — data centre failure, ransomware, accidental deletion, and regional cloud outages — with RPO and RTO commitments that your board and regulators can rely on. Our DR practice goes beyond architectural design: we execute the simulated failure exercises that reveal the gaps between your documented recovery plan and operational reality, and we remediate those gaps before they manifest in a genuine crisis. No DR programme is declared complete until recovery has been demonstrated under realistic conditions.
RTO <4hr guaranteed · ISO 22301 aligned
Recovery Objectives
RTO — Recovery Time Objective
Maximum acceptable downtime. We architect fail-over systems that restore operations within four hours, minimising revenue loss and reputational impact.
RPO — Recovery Point Objective
Maximum tolerable data loss window. Continuous replication and incremental snapshots keep your recovery point within sixty minutes of live state.
Threat Spectrum Covered
Methodology
A progressively scoped framework — from risk assessment to full-scale recovery orchestration.
Step 1
We facilitate a business impact analysis workshop with your operations, finance, and technology leadership to quantify the cost of downtime for each critical system and translate those numbers into defensible RPO and RTO targets. These objectives drive every subsequent architectural decision and are documented in a board-approved DR policy.
Step 2
We design the recovery architecture — backup strategy, replication topology, failover orchestration, and network reconfiguration — appropriate to your RPO/RTO commitments and budget. Options range from backup-and-restore for non-critical systems to active-active multi-region architectures for revenue-critical platforms.
Step 3
DR infrastructure is implemented as code and automated recovery orchestration is developed so that failover can be triggered by a single command rather than a multi-hour manual procedure. Automated backup policies, cross-region replication, and health check configurations are all validated against their documented specifications.
Step 4
We conduct a structured DR testing programme that escalates in severity: tabletop exercises, component failover tests, and ultimately full simulated regional failure exercises. Each test produces a written report with measured RPO and RTO, identified gaps, and a time-bound remediation plan.
Step 5
A DR governance framework is established with test schedules, change management procedures, and annual review cadences. Compliance mapping against your applicable regulatory framework (PCI DSS, ISO 22301, FCA DORA, HIPAA) is documented and maintained as your environment evolves.
“The uncomfortable reality of disaster recovery is that most enterprise DR plans have never been tested under realistic conditions — and when they are needed, they fail in ways that were entirely predictable.”
Compliance Frameworks
Runbooks that assume manual steps that take hours rather than minutes, backup restoration procedures that have not been validated in twelve months, and cross-region failover configurations that diverged from their documented state three infrastructure changes ago. Claritas DR engagements are built around a simple principle: if you have not proved it works, it does not work. We design your recovery architecture, implement the automation, and then destroy things — deliberately, in a controlled environment — to generate the evidence your board and insurers require that your recovery capabilities are genuine. The regulatory environment increasingly demands this evidence: financial services regulators, healthcare compliance frameworks, and cyber insurance underwriters are scrutinising DR test results with an intensity that makes untested recovery plans a material liability.
What We Deliver
Business impact analysis, RPO/RTO definition, and DR policy documentation
Multi-region and multi-AZ failover architecture design and implementation
Automated backup policy management: AWS Backup, Azure Backup, and custom orchestration
Database replication: RDS Multi-AZ, Aurora Global Database, and Azure SQL Geo-Replication
Automated failover orchestration with runbook automation via AWS Systems Manager and Azure Automation
DR testing programme: tabletop exercises, component failovers, and full regional failure simulation
Regulatory compliance mapping: ISO 22301, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FCA DORA, and SOC 2
Cyber recovery architecture: immutable backups, air-gapped vaults, and ransomware recovery procedures
Engage our disaster recovery practice to design, implement, and validate a business continuity programme that protects your organisation from the scenarios your board knows it cannot afford.