What We Deliver
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Infrastructure Audit
Review of all data sources, backup frequencies, retention policies, and recovery procedures to identify coverage gaps, single points of failure, and regulatory compliance exposures.
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Application Portfolio Review
Analysis of application criticality, defined RTO/RPO requirements, and data interdependencies to design a tiered backup and recovery architecture appropriate to each workload.
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Security & Compliance Check
Validation that backup environments satisfy encryption-at-rest requirements, immutability standards, and regulatory obligations under GDPR, HIPAA, and UAE data protection law.
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Skills & Team Readiness
Evaluation of internal DR readiness including runbook coverage, recovery testing cadence, team incident response capability, and escalation procedure documentation.
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Cost-Benefit & TCO Analysis
Comparison of current backup infrastructure costs versus Lastcluster's managed backup service model with projected ROI and risk-adjusted business continuity value quantification.
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Cloud Strategy Recommendations
Comprehensive backup and business continuity roadmap with recovery tier definitions, automation policy configuration, and a scheduled testing calendar for ongoing validation.
Deliverables
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Backup architecture design document with data classification matrix, recovery tier definitions, and retention policy configuration per workload type
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Recovery runbook and failover procedure documentation for each defined disaster recovery scenario and criticality tier
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RPO/RTO compliance assessment report with gap identification and prioritised remediation plan for workloads falling outside defined recovery objectives
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Backup policy configuration documentation and audit trail demonstrating backup completion, retention compliance, and encryption verification
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Monthly backup health report with restore test results, retention compliance statistics, and storage consumption trend analysis
WHO IS IT FOR — Backup, Recovery & Business Continuity Planning:
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IT and risk teams in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government) where demonstrable RPO/RTO compliance is a regulatory and audit requirement, not just an internal target
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Organisations recovering from or actively preparing against ransomware, where immutable backup architecture and documented recovery sequences are the first and most critical line of defence
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Businesses that have grown through acquisition or rapid infrastructure expansion and whose backup policies have not kept pace with the complexity of the environment they now protect
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Enterprises whose DR plan exists as a document but has never been executed under load — who need a partner that will test it, stress it, and certify it before a real incident does it for them
Why Choose Lastcluster?
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Backup architectures designed to your specific RPO and RTO requirements — not a universal policy applied uniformly to workloads with vastly different business criticality
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Every strategy includes a scheduled restore testing programme — documented evidence of successful recovery delivered monthly, ready for your auditors and regulators
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Business continuity planning beyond backup: documented recovery sequences, communication protocols, and escalation paths defined for every failure scenario you might face
Ready to assess your cloud potential?
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