Whole-server failover in the cloud, not just file restores — disaster recovery as a service that gets your business trading again within hours of a major outage, not days.
DRaaS replicates entire servers, not just files, so you can fail over your systems and keep operating during an outage, not just recover data afterwards.
Disaster recovery as a service is built around agreed recovery time and recovery point objectives, so you know exactly how fast and how current a failover will be.
We run scheduled failover drills, so disaster recovery services uk businesses use are proven to work before they're ever needed for real.
Backup answers "can we get our files back?" DRaaS answers a bigger question: "can we keep the business running while our primary systems are down?" Disaster recovery as a service replicates entire servers — operating system, applications and data together — to cloud infrastructure, so if your primary server, site or data centre goes down, you can fail over to a working replica within a defined, agreed timeframe rather than rebuilding everything from scratch. Cloudswitched delivers draas for UK SMEs from the City of London, with remote-first support nationwide and on-site cover in London, built on the same 24/7 monitoring and EDR endpoint protection that underpins our wider managed IT services.
Disaster recovery services uk businesses look for tend to become a serious conversation after either a genuine near-miss — a server room flood, a prolonged power outage, a ransomware attack that took days to recover from — or a supplier due-diligence form that asks pointed questions about recovery time objectives the business can't currently answer. In both cases, the underlying issue is the same: file backup alone tells you your data survived, but says nothing about how long the business would actually be offline while systems get rebuilt around it.
Disaster recovery as a service uk providers offer varies enormously in what's actually included — some genuinely replicate whole servers ready to fail over within minutes, others are really just backup rebranded with a more urgent-sounding name. We're explicit about which one we're delivering for each client, because the difference matters enormously the day it's actually needed, and a business that thinks it has full server failover but has only ever had file backup can discover the gap at exactly the worst possible moment. It's also worth saying plainly that DRaaS isn't the right answer for every system a business runs — it's specifically for the handful of servers or applications where extended downtime would genuinely stop the business trading, not a blanket upgrade applied to every workload regardless of how much it actually matters if it's briefly unavailable.
Disaster recovery as a service means continuously replicating your servers to cloud infrastructure, so a working copy of your entire environment is ready to take over if your primary systems fail — not just a set of files waiting to be restored onto new hardware.
We agree a recovery time objective — how long you can be without a system before it fails over — and a recovery point objective — how much data you can afford to lose, measured in minutes or hours since the last replication. These two numbers define what disaster recovery as a service uk actually delivers for your business, not a vague promise of "fast recovery."
Rather than a nightly backup job, DRaaS replicates changes to your servers on a near-continuous basis, so the failover environment stays close to current, minimising how much work is lost if a failover is genuinely needed.
We run scheduled failover tests, not just backup verification, so you know the whole replicated environment actually starts up and works, not only that data exists somewhere in the cloud.
We set clear recovery time and recovery point objectives with you before anything is built, so disaster recovery as a service uk delivers a specific, contracted outcome, not a vague best-effort promise.
We run scheduled failover drills so you know, ahead of any real incident, that a genuine outage results in a working failover, not a nasty surprise.
From assessment to a tested, ready-to-use disaster recovery as a service plan.
We identify which systems are critical enough to need full DRaaS versus standard backup, and agree recovery time and recovery point objectives for each.
We configure continuous replication of your critical servers to cloud infrastructure, matched to the objectives agreed.
We run a full failover drill before we consider the plan complete, so you know disaster recovery as a service actually works.
Ongoing 24/7 monitoring and periodic re-testing, so your DRaaS plan stays current as your systems change.
We agree specific recovery time and recovery point objectives up front, so disaster recovery as a service uk delivers a defined, contracted outcome, not a vague promise of "fast recovery" that's never actually been measured.
We run genuine failover drills, not just backup verification, so you know the whole replicated environment actually starts up and works, not merely that data exists somewhere in the cloud.
DRaaS sits alongside our cloud backup, network admin and connectivity services, backed by our 99% SLA guarantee, so recovery planning benefits from the same team that already understands your wider infrastructure.
We're based in the City of London with remote-first delivery nationwide and on-site coverage across London, so support is close by whenever a failover genuinely needs hands-on attention.
You get a named account manager and documented recovery objectives you can show directly to insurers, clients or auditors, rather than a vague internal assurance that "we'd sort something out."
And because we're honest about scope, we won't sell you full server failover for a system that genuinely only needs file backup — DRaaS is priced and applied to the systems where downtime really is expensive, not blanket-applied to everything regardless of actual business impact. We also review recovery objectives periodically rather than setting them once and leaving them untouched for years, because the systems that matter most to a growing business tend to change — the application that was optional eighteen months ago can quietly become the one everything else depends on.
Cloud backup answers whether your data can be recovered; DRaaS answers whether your business can keep operating while it's recovered. Standard backup restores files and folders onto working hardware, which can take hours or longer once you factor in sourcing replacement systems and reinstalling software. Disaster recovery as a service keeps a replicated, ready-to-run copy of your critical servers on standby, so failover happens in a defined, agreed timeframe measured against your recovery time objective, not an open-ended rebuild. Most businesses need both: cloud backup for everyday file recovery and general resilience, and DRaaS specifically for the handful of systems where an extended outage would genuinely damage the business — a customer-facing application, a core line-of-business server, or the system an entire team depends on to work at all. Treating the two as separate decisions, rather than assuming one automatically covers the other, is usually the point where a business first properly understands its actual exposure to downtime.
We plan for the outage you hope never happens. Here's what sets us apart.
DRaaS replicates entire systems, not just files, so critical applications can keep running during an outage.
Recovery time and recovery point objectives are agreed and documented, not left as a vague assumption.
We run scheduled failover drills, so recovery is proven ahead of any real incident, not discovered mid-crisis.
A clear, contracted service level rather than a vague promise, so you know exactly what to expect.
A named point of contact for your disaster recovery plan, not a rotating queue of unfamiliar tickets.
We only recommend full DRaaS for systems where downtime genuinely costs the business, not blanket-applied regardless of impact.
Failover and failback procedures are written down clearly, so your team can follow them under pressure, not rely on memory.
For businesses that want disaster recovery reviewed at a strategic level, our virtual CIO service can sit alongside day-to-day management.
Scoped and quoted per system based on genuine recovery needs, so you'll know the cost before we start.
Disaster recovery as a service suits UK SMEs precisely because failover infrastructure doesn't need to sit anywhere near your premises — in fact, it works better when it doesn't, since a recovery site sharing your building offers no protection against fire, flood or a site-wide power failure. Our team monitors replication and manages failover remotely, wherever your business is based, with on-site engineers available across London when hardware genuinely needs hands during recovery. That consistency matters for businesses with a single site or several — the failover environment and the recovery objectives behind it are the same regardless of which office or data centre was affected.
We provide disaster recovery services uk-wide for professional services, retail, manufacturing and public-sector clients running systems where extended downtime would genuinely damage the business — a customer-facing application, a core line-of-business server, or infrastructure an entire team relies on to work at all. Some clients come to us after a genuine near-miss that exposed how slow their recovery actually would have been; others are responding to a client contract or insurance renewal that now asks for a documented recovery time objective they can't currently provide. We also support businesses that already have a form of disaster recovery in place but have never actually tested it, and want an honest, independent assessment of whether it would work as described if it were ever genuinely called upon.
Not every system needs DRaaS: we help you identify which servers genuinely justify full failover versus which are adequately covered by standard cloud backup, so you're not paying for disaster recovery on systems where a same-day restore is genuinely good enough.
Getting started: most engagements begin with a short assessment of your critical systems and current recovery arrangements, so we can propose realistic recovery objectives and a fair quote before committing to anything.
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City of London based, with remote-first disaster recovery as a service delivery across the country and on-site engineers available in London when needed.
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Disaster recovery as a service — continuous replication of whole servers to cloud infrastructure, ready to fail over within agreed recovery objectives.
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UK-wide disaster recovery as a service, delivered remote-first with on-site coverage in London and defined recovery time and recovery point objectives.
Got questions about DRaaS? We've answered the most common ones below. If you need more detail, get in touch.
DRaaS, disaster recovery as a service, continuously replicates entire servers — operating system, applications and data — to cloud infrastructure, so if your primary systems fail, you can fail over to a working replica within an agreed timeframe rather than rebuilding from scratch.
Cloud backup restores files and folders onto working hardware, which can take hours or longer. DRaaS keeps a replicated, ready-to-run copy of your critical servers on standby, so failover happens within a defined recovery time objective, not an open-ended rebuild.
Recovery time objective is how long you can be without a system before it needs to fail over. Recovery point objective is how much data you can afford to lose, measured in time since the last replication. We agree both with you before building anything.
No, we help identify which systems genuinely justify full failover versus which are adequately covered by standard cloud backup, so you're not paying for disaster recovery where a same-day restore is good enough.
Yes, we run scheduled failover drills rather than relying on replication status alone as proof that a real recovery would succeed.
Cost depends on how many systems need full failover and what recovery objectives you set. We scope this during a free consultation, quoting per system based on genuine business impact.
Your team follows a documented failover procedure, users are redirected to the replicated environment, and normal operations continue on the failover system until the primary is restored and failback can happen safely.
Yes, documented recovery time and recovery point objectives, alongside tested failover, cover many of the resilience expectations behind Cyber Essentials, and our certification support can guide you through the rest.
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