Backup & DR Assessment
BI Cloud Tech helps organizations assess Azure backup and disaster recovery readiness, validate RPO/RTO requirements, and improve protection for critical workloads.
Could your critical workloads recover on time?
This assessment is for infrastructure leaders, cloud architects, security teams, application owners, and business continuity stakeholders who need evidence that critical services can be restored after ransomware, accidental deletion, regional failure, or platform outage. It is especially useful after rapid Azure growth, workload migration, policy drift, an audit finding, or an untested recovery plan.
We review the Azure and hybrid capabilities that support recoverability: Azure Business Continuity Center, Azure Backup, Backup vaults and Recovery Services vaults, Azure Site Recovery, policy and retention design, immutability and soft delete, multi-user authorization, private connectivity, encryption, role assignments, replication health, recovery plans, monitoring, alerts, regional resiliency, and approved third-party or native workload protection.
You receive a Backup and DR Recoverability Report, workload protection matrix, RPO/RTO alignment table, vault and policy findings, recovery dependency map, test evidence summary, prioritized remediation backlog, and a 90-day resilience roadmap. Sample findings may include unprotected workloads, retention that misses compliance needs, broad vault permissions, missing immutability or multi-user authorization, replication health issues, recovery plans without application dependencies, and restores that have never been tested.
Our process
Turn backup settings into a practical recovery plan
We trace selected critical workloads from business impact and dependencies through backup, replication, restore, failover, validation, and operational handoff. The review tests practical recoverability, not merely whether a backup job reports success.
Review protection coverage
We review protected workloads, unprotected resources, backup policies, retention settings, vault design, access control, monitoring, alerts, and backup health across Azure and hybrid systems.
Coverage review
Validate RPO and RTO alignment
We compare current backup and replication settings with business recovery requirements. This helps identify where backup frequency, replication design, retention, or recovery process does not match the required RPO and RTO.
Recovery targets
Assess recovery operations
We review restore procedures, failover readiness, recovery order, role ownership, permissions, documentation, and test history. This helps confirm whether recovery can be executed under pressure.
Operational readiness
Create improvement roadmap
We document gaps and recommended next steps for backup coverage, disaster recovery design, regional resiliency, monitoring, security, recovery testing, and ongoing operations.
Improvement plan
OUR WORK
What the assessment requires and delivers
A focused assessment typically takes two to three weeks after scope and access are confirmed. Participants usually include a business continuity or technology sponsor, Azure platform owner, backup administrator, security representative, application owners, and operations staff. Provide workload and dependency inventories, business impact and RPO/RTO requirements, vault and policy exports, replication health, recovery plans, monitoring data, test history, licensing details, and read-only access or agreed exports. Follow-on work may include Azure Backup hardening, Azure Site Recovery implementation, recovery-plan automation, ransomware-resilient vault controls, restore testing, regional resilience design, or managed backup operations.
