Pricing + Services

Business Data Protection Planning starting at $150/hour.

Backup Solutions

Backups come in many flavors from a USB drive to a dedicated backup server that replicates to the Internet and many in between. Find the solution that is right for your business. You may want to read: Backups 3-2-1

Backup Monitoring

Variable monthly rate — If your backups stop running, would you know? Get summary notifications of backup results and alerted if it changes suddenly — too much or too little.

Hosting Advice

Does it make sense to move your critical systems out of your office to a facility with a 24x7 staff to monitor any power, Internet and physical security? DRS can help you decide and even manage the migration project to minimize disruption to your business. You may want to read: Cloud & Hosted

Risk

As much as we’d all like to just focus on our job and not worry about what could go wrong, little misfortunes can snowball into an avalanche or expenses and lost income. Talking to an expert can help you at least pick the low-hanging fruit if you don’t need a more comprehensive system. You May want to read: Risk & Expenses

Redundant Data Storage Planning

Keeping your data safe is more than making backups. As one of the few moving parts, disk drives have a high risk of failure. This never happens first thing in the morning on a slow day. It’s always when you are facing a deadline. Having a redundant storage system means that when drives do fail, you can keep working while waiting for a replacement part. You may want to read: Redundancy - General

Redundant Servers and Virtualization

If you have a system that is critical to your business, you may want to consider how much would be lost if it crashed and replacement parts and repairs took two days — and two days can be optimistic depending on circumstances. Compute Redundancy and Virtualization add some complexity and expense; however, they also mean a crashed server is running again in a couple minutes instead of a couple days. There are also some long-term benefits for the future. You may want to read: Compute Redundancy and Virtues of Virtual