Disaster Recovery Services

Why Defense DR Requirements Differ

Commercial disaster recovery focuses on business continuity—minimizing downtime to avoid revenue loss. Defense disaster recovery is about mission success—ensuring weapon systems, command and control, and intelligence operations continue functioning when lives depend on it. Defense DR requirements are far more stringent: Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) measured in minutes rather than hours, Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) measured in seconds to prevent data loss, geographic diversity to survive regional disasters or attacks, and classification-aware replication ensuring Secret data never replicates to Unclassified environments. Our disaster recovery solutions meet these exacting defense requirements.

Continuous Replication & Backup

Traditional backup creates recovery points every 24 hours—unacceptable when military operations generate mission-critical data continuously. Our disaster recovery platform implements continuous replication, synchronously copying data to geographically diverse data centers within seconds of creation. This provides Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) under 60 seconds—minimal data loss even during catastrophic primary site failures. Automated backups occur hourly for rapid recovery, with daily and monthly snapshots retained for long-term retention. All backups are encrypted and immutable, preventing ransomware from destroying recovery points.

Automated Failover & Recovery

Manual disaster recovery processes are too slow for mission-critical defense systems. Our DR platform provides automated failover—when primary systems fail, workloads automatically restart at backup sites within minutes, without human intervention. Health monitoring continuously tests primary systems, triggering failover immediately upon detecting failures. For the most critical applications, we implement active-active architectures with workloads running simultaneously at multiple sites—failures at one site have zero impact as other sites seamlessly absorb the load. Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) as low as 2 minutes ensure mission continuity.

Testing & Compliance

Untested disaster recovery plans fail when needed most. We conduct quarterly DR tests, fully failing over to backup sites to verify recovery capabilities. Testing occurs transparently—production systems continue operating while replica environments are activated for verification. All tests are documented for compliance with DoD and NATO disaster recovery requirements. DR playbooks are maintained with step-by-step recovery procedures for all scenarios. Annual tabletop exercises train personnel on DR procedures, ensuring rapid response when real disasters strike. This rigorous testing validates that DR capabilities work when lives depend on them.

Disaster Recovery Capabilities

• Continuous replication with RPO under 60 seconds
• Automated failover with RTO as low as 2 minutes
• Geographically diverse data centers for regional resilience
• Encrypted, immutable backups for ransomware protection
• Active-active architectures for zero-downtime failover
• Classification-aware replication policies
• Quarterly DR testing with full failover validation
• Compliance with DoD and NATO DR requirements