Formation Tech were engaged to provide a strategic review of how the customer's data should be backed up, secured and managed across the environment. The review took both the technical and operational dimensions into account, drawing on NCSC best practice and the known risks of single-supplier dependency.
The engagement resulted in the deployment of an Acronis solution as the backup foundation. Acronis was selected for the immutability of its storage, providing the customer with confidence that backups could not be tampered with or encrypted by an attacker, backup as a credible first point of defence and first point of recovery.
On further consultation and investigation, it became clear that while certain server data could be backed up, recovery times mattered as much as the backup itself. If data wasn't recovered within a critical period, the operational impact would be significant regardless of how well it had been protected. Formation Tech responded with a layered solution: a managed service to help design, execute and monitor the backup environment, providing resource as and when required, alongside a disaster recovery solution capable of spinning data up into separate data centres with immediate effect.
Importantly, those recovery data centres are Acronis zones, independent of the hyperscale environments many businesses rely on, such as Azure and AWS. That independence matters: it means the customer's ability to recover does not sit within the same risk perimeter as the production environment it is designed to protect.
