Cloud & Business Continuity Solutions
Flexible, secure cloud with built-in resilience
Cloud technology transforms how organizations operate. We deliver secure cloud solutions and business continuity strategies that keep critical data protected and recoverable.
What we deliver
Business continuity is an arithmetic problem before it is a technology one. How much data can you afford to lose, and how long can you afford to be down? Those two numbers — recovery point and recovery time — determine the architecture. Everything else is implementation detail.
We set those targets per workload, because they are rarely uniform. A finance system may justify near-zero data loss while a file archive tolerates a day. Designing the whole estate to the strictest requirement is a common and expensive mistake.
From there we build the backup, replication and cloud topology that meets those targets, and then prove it. An untested recovery plan is a hypothesis, and the point of testing is to discover the gap while it is still inexpensive to fix.
Scope
A typical cloud engagement covers:
- Cloud infrastructure solutions
- Cloud backup systems
- Hybrid cloud deployments
- Disaster recovery planning
- Secure remote access
- Email migration services
- Cloud storage management
- Business continuity planning
How we deliver
From site walk to handover.
- 01 DefineRecovery point and recovery time objectives agreed per workload with the people who own those systems.
- 02 DesignBackup, replication and cloud topology sized to hit those targets, including data residency requirements.
- 03 ImplementDeployment with retention schedules, isolation from production credentials, and monitoring on job health.
- 04 TestScheduled restore exercises, documented, so the plan is evidence rather than assumption.
Standards
Built to standards your auditors check.
- 3-2-1 rule — three copies, two media types, one off-site — still the baseline for a defensible backup design.
- Immutable retention — backup copies that cannot be altered or deleted within their retention window, including by an administrator.
- Tested restores — recovery exercised on a schedule; a successful backup job is not evidence of a successful restore.
- Data residency — where data physically sits, confirmed against your sector obligations before selecting a region.
Why dexline for cloud
- Targets before topology.
We agree recovery objectives per workload first, which usually reduces cost by not over-engineering everything to the strictest case.
- Backups isolated from production identity.
If a compromised domain admin can delete the backups, the backups are not a recovery plan.
- Restores rehearsed.
Scheduled test restores with documented results, so recovery time is a measured figure rather than an estimate.
- Residency handled explicitly.
Region selection is checked against your sector obligations rather than defaulting to whatever is cheapest.
FAQ
What is the difference between backup and disaster recovery?
Backup is a copy of data you can restore from. Disaster recovery is the ability to resume operating, which needs the data plus somewhere to run it, a network path to reach it, and a documented sequence for bringing services up in the right order. Many organisations have solid backups and no disaster recovery plan, and only discover the difference during an outage.
How long should we retain backups?
Retention is driven by operational need and any regulatory obligation for your sector, and the two are often different. A common commercial pattern is daily copies retained for a few weeks, weekly for a few months, and monthly for a year or more. Sector rules — particularly in healthcare and financial services — may mandate longer, so we scope retention against your specific obligations.
Does Microsoft 365 back up our data?
Microsoft provides service resilience and limited retention, but that is not equivalent to backup. Items deleted beyond the retention window, or destroyed by a compromised account, are generally not recoverable from the platform alone. Most organisations with a real recovery requirement add third-party backup for Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.
Can our data stay inside the UAE?
Yes. The major cloud providers operate UAE regions, and on-premise or co-located options remain available where residency requirements are strict. Some sectors have specific obligations about where data may be stored and processed, so we confirm the requirement before selecting a region rather than after.
How often should we test a restore?
At minimum annually for a full recovery exercise, and quarterly for spot restores of individual systems or files. Testing should also follow any significant change to the environment, because the plan documents a topology that may no longer exist after a migration or refresh.
Related services
Often delivered together.
Have a cloud project?
Tell us the site and rough scope. We’ll come back with a site-walk slot and an indicative BoQ within 48 hours.