A disaster recovery plan is only valuable if it actually works. Cloudswitched designs, implements, and regularly tests Azure disaster recovery solutions for UK businesses, ensuring you can recover rapidly from any disruption.
We conduct regular DR drills to verify your failover works as expected — not just on paper, but in practice with real recovery tests.
Recovery time objectives measured in minutes, not hours. Azure Site Recovery enables near-instant failover of critical workloads.
Replicate between UK South and UK West Azure regions to maintain data sovereignty while achieving geographic separation.
Hardware failures, ransomware attacks, natural disasters, and human error can take your systems offline without warning. Traditional DR solutions require duplicate physical infrastructure that sits idle and expensive. Azure Site Recovery provides cost-effective disaster recovery by replicating workloads to a secondary Azure region, with failover that can be triggered in minutes. Cloudswitched manages every aspect of your DR solution so it is always ready when needed.
We design your recovery architecture around your specific RTO and RPO requirements, selecting the right Azure services and replication methods for each workload.
Recovery plans are scripted and automated so failover can be initiated with a single action, executing in the correct sequence with dependency management.
We schedule and execute non-disruptive failover tests at least quarterly, producing reports that confirm your recovery plan works and meets your objectives.
Azure Site Recovery is Microsoft disaster recovery service that replicates workloads from a primary site to a secondary Azure region. If the primary site fails, workloads are failed over to the secondary region. It supports Azure VMs, on-premises VMs, and physical servers.
Recovery time depends on the workload and your architecture, but Azure Site Recovery typically achieves failover within 5 to 15 minutes for most VM workloads. We design your recovery plans to meet your specific RTO requirements.
We recommend and perform non-disruptive DR tests at least quarterly. These tests failover your workloads to the secondary region without affecting production, verifying that recovery works and documenting the results.
Azure Site Recovery charges per protected instance plus the cost of storage for replicated data. During normal operation, you only pay for storage — compute costs are incurred only during failover or testing. This makes it significantly cheaper than maintaining physical DR infrastructure.
Yes. Azure Site Recovery can replicate on-premises VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, and physical servers to Azure. This is an excellent way to implement disaster recovery without investing in a secondary data centre.
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