Data Backup & Recovery in Santa Monica

Every protected workload runs a scheduled recovery test on a rolling cadence. The result is a screenshot of a booted VM emailed to you, with the date stamp and the system tested. "Untested backups" is the single most common reason businesses pay ransom — we close that gap with evidence, not promises.

Yes, separately from the Microsoft tenant. M365's built-in retention has hard limits — a compromised admin or a deliberate deletion can permanently destroy data inside the native 30/90-day windows. Our M365 backup keeps mailboxes, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams recoverable for years.

Critical systems running the files, mailboxes, and databases that would take days to rebuild from scratch are typically back online in 1 to 4 hours via boot-from-backup in our cloud — that's the RTO we design to. Full environment restoration to clean hardware usually completes within 24 to 72 hours depending on data volume.

Yes. We use immutable retention at the storage tier, which means even an attacker with stolen domain-admin credentials cannot delete or encrypt recovery points within the retention window. That immutability is what saves the business when prevention fails.

Backup and DR for a Santa Monica SMB usually runs $8 to $18 per protected workload per month, plus M365 / Google Workspace backup at a few dollars per mailbox. We size the proposal to your environment, then quote a fixed monthly fee — no hourly billing surprises.

Yes — backup verification logs, retention policy documentation, and the restore-test screenshots all flow into the quarterly evidence package, sized to whatever framework you're being audited against (HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2, CMMC).