Have you considered the maximum amount of time your business can afford to be offline after an IT incident? Having a backup is certainly essential, but it is only the first component of a complete continuity strategy.

The true measure of your preparedness is how quickly you can achieve your Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

The RTO is the strategic planning metric that defines the maximum period your business can be down, whether due to a system glitch, hardware failure, accidental deletion, or cyber incident, before the impact becomes unacceptable. For some operations, this window might be hours; for others, it may be minutes. The shorter your RTO, the stronger your business resilience.

The Backup Comfort Zone (and Why It’s Dangerous)

We get it, having backups gives peace of mind. Files, servers, emails and databases are all safely stored somewhere “just in case.” But imagine your systems go down after a ransomware attack or hardware failure. Sure, you have your backups, but if it takes 12 hours, 24 hours, or even a few days to restore everything, what happens to your business in that time?

Your customers can’t reach you. Orders stall. Teams are idle. Productivity drops to zero.

Even with backups, long restoration times can slow your operations and affect customers. That’s why recovery speed matters.

Where Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Comes In

As an official Acronis implementation partner, Radical Cloud Solutions focuses on delivering technical solutions that directly address the RTO challenge. We utilise Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, a unified platform that combines backup, advanced cybersecurity, and rapid disaster recovery capabilities.

Our approach shifts the focus entirely from merely storing copies of your data to deploying systems that allow you to recover near-instantaneously. Our team deploys, configures, and maintains this setup, ensuring seamless functionality when it matters most.

Key features used to achieve a minimised RTO include:

• Instant Restore: This crucial feature allows critical systems to be booted directly from the backup file, keeping vital operations running immediately while the full, background restoration of the primary environment continues. This is the primary mechanism for achieving a very short RTO.
• Integrated Cyber Protection: Recovery is only possible if the data is clean. The integrated cyber protection layer ensures backups are verifiably free of ransomware and malware, eliminating the risk of re-infection upon restoration.
• Flexible Recovery: The ability to restore data and systems to any environment, cloud, on-premises, or different hardware, with minimal complexity removes infrastructure as a potential bottleneck, shortening recovery time across diverse scenarios.

In short, Acronis doesn’t just back you up, it gets you back up.

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We’ve seen how companies that prioritise fast recovery can turn potential downtime into minor hiccups. That’s why we trust and recommend Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud. It’s not just about data safety; it’s about keeping your business moving, no matter what.

If you’d like to learn more about Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, why not schedule a meeting with our team today at [email protected]?