Why Brighton backup needs to clear a higher bar
Brighton concentrates regulated estates and high-value IP — Silicon Beach customer data, NHS Sussex clinical, Brighton creative IP. Backup design starts from "assume the production estate is compromised".
SOC 2 evidence for Silicon Beach tech
For Brandwatch / Cision, BookingGo-class businesses with SOC 2 obligations, backup design directly supports the Availability + Processing Integrity criteria.
NHS DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4 for NHS Sussex
For NHS Sussex ICB-affiliated organisations, DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4 requires demonstrable backup and recovery.
IP protection for Brighton creative
For Brighton creative cluster customers, backup includes IP-classified data (animation assets, design files, broadcast masters) with appropriate retention and access controls.
SRA / FCA for The Lanes professional services
For Brighton law firms and finance, backup feeds into client-confidentiality + record-retention requirements.
What Servnet backup delivers in Brighton
Veeam Data Platform deployments
Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, Veeam for M365, Veeam Hardened Repository.
Rubrik Security Cloud + r7000
For high-value Brighton customers — Rubrik Security Cloud + Cloud Vault.
Commvault Cloud + HyperScale X
For larger Brighton enterprise customers.
M365 / Workspace SaaS backup
Independent backup of M365 / Workspace tenants. Microsoft retains, doesn't back up.
Air-gapped vault at Equinix LD8 (London) or Brighton DC
Off-fabric, network-isolated vault — typically Brighton customers use Equinix LD8 in London as the second-tier air-gap vault.
Quarterly restore exercises
For regulated customers — quarterly tested restores, validated, documented for DSPT / SOC 2 / SRA audit.
Brighton backup + recovery customers
- ▸Silicon Beach techBrandwatch / Cision, BookingGo, 15gifts — customer-data backup, SOC 2-aligned retention, multi-tenant isolation in backup repositories.
- ▸NHS Sussex trustsUH Sussex, SPFT, EAS — clinical-system backup, DSP-Toolkit-aligned retention.
- ▸Brighton creative + productionBrighton creative cluster — IP-classified backup, animation / design / broadcast masters with appropriate access controls.
- ▸The Lanes professional servicesBrighton legal + finance — practice-management database backup, client-file retention aligned to SRA / FCA.
- ▸University of Sussex + BrightonUniversity of Sussex, University of Brighton — research-data backup with funder-aligned retention.
- ▸BHCC + ESCC + Sussex authoritiesBHCC + ESCC + 5 Sussex districts — backup of Crown Hosting / Azure workloads, statutory record retention.
How a Brighton backup engagement runs
Assessment + design — weeks 1–2
Existing-backup audit, RPO / RTO targets, ransomware scenario stress-test, regulator-mapping.
Hardware + software deployment
Backup repository racked in agreed Brighton DC (with London air-gap vault).
First successful restore — week 6
Pick a non-critical workload, restore end-to-end to isolated infrastructure.
Ongoing operations + quarterly testing
Day-to-day job monitoring, restore-on-demand, quarterly tested restores documented for audit.
Brighton backup + recovery — common questions
What does "immutable" actually mean for our Brighton backup data?
Data even an admin with full credentials cannot delete or modify before retention expires.
How do you protect a Microsoft 365 tenant — surely Microsoft does it?
Microsoft retains, they don't back up. For any Brighton tenant of meaningful size we deploy a third-party M365 backup tool.
Can you build us an air-gapped vault for our Brighton estate?
Yes — typical design lands primary in Brighton DC (MaxNet Brighton or Pulsant BTN) and air-gapped vault at Equinix LD8 in London (close geographically, separate network).
Do you do quarterly restore testing for NHS Sussex?
Yes — for NHS Sussex ICB-affiliated organisations we schedule quarterly tested restores aligned to DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4.
How quickly can you recover a ransomware-encrypted Brighton estate?
For a typical 100-VM estate with Veeam or Rubrik and immutable repositories: critical-service restore within 4–8 hours, full estate recovery 24–72 hours.
How do you price backup for a 100-VM Brighton firm?
Three components — software licence, backup target hardware (typically £25–55k), implementation services (£15–30k).
Other services we deliver in Brighton
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