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Southampton backup + recovery

Backup and recovery in Southampton —
immutable, regulator-grade, restore-tested.

Servnet designs and runs backup and recovery for Southampton businesses where data loss is not a recoverable event — Port of Southampton under NIS Regulations, Carnival UK under operational resilience + GDPR, BAE Systems Southampton under defence flow-down, NHS HIOW under DSP Toolkit. Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik or Veritas — restore-tested quarterly.

Backup & Recovery in Southampton — Backup and recovery for Southampton — Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, Veritas. Immutable backup, M365 protection, NHS HIOW + port + BAE-
Southampton context

Why Southampton backup needs to clear a higher bar

Southampton concentrates port + cruise + defence + NHS — sectors where downtime translates directly to operational, regulatory, and commercial consequences.

NIS Regulations for Port of Southampton

For DP World Southampton + ABP Southampton as Operators of Essential Services, backup architecture must support NIS-Regulations incident reporting + recovery time objectives.

Operational resilience for Carnival UK

For Carnival UK + cruise operations, backup supports 24×7 operational resilience + GDPR for guest data.

MOD flow-down for BAE Systems Southampton supply

For BAE Systems Southampton + maritime defence supplier-chain, prime-contractor flow-down requires specific retention + immutability.

NHS DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4

For NHS HIOW ICB-affiliated organisations, DSP Toolkit assertion 9.4 requires demonstrable backup and recovery.

What we deliver

What Servnet backup delivers in Southampton

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 Southampton customers.

Commvault Cloud + HyperScale X

For larger Southampton enterprise customers.

M365 / Workspace SaaS backup

Independent backup of M365 / Workspace tenants.

Air-gapped vault in second Southampton DC

Off-fabric, network-isolated vault at a second DC.

Quarterly restore exercises

For regulated customers — quarterly tested restores.

Who we serve in Southampton

Southampton backup + recovery customers

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    Port of Southampton + maritime
    DP World Southampton + ABP Southampton — port operational data backup, NIS-Regulations-aligned recovery.
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    Carnival UK + cruise
    Carnival UK — cruise operational data, GDPR-aligned guest data retention.
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    BAE Systems Southampton
    BAE Systems + maritime defence — product / engineering / quality data, defence flow-down retention.
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    NHS HIOW trusts
    UHS, SHFT, IOW NHS Trust — clinical-system backup, DSP-Toolkit-aligned retention.
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    University of Southampton + Solent
    University of Southampton, Solent — research-data backup, funder-aligned retention.
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    SCC + Hampshire authorities
    SCC + Hampshire CC + 11 districts — backup of Crown Hosting / Azure workloads.
Delivery model

How a Southampton backup engagement runs

Assessment + design — weeks 1–2

Existing-backup audit, RPO / RTO targets, ransomware scenario stress-test.

Hardware + software deployment

Backup repository racked in agreed Southampton DC.

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.

FAQs

Southampton backup + recovery — common questions

What does "immutable" mean for our Southampton backup data?

Data even an admin with full credentials cannot delete or modify before retention expires.

How do you protect a Microsoft 365 tenant?

Microsoft retains, doesn't back up. We deploy third-party M365 backup tools.

Can you build us an air-gapped vault in a second Southampton DC?

Yes — primary in one DC (Pulsant SOU) and air-gapped vault in a second (Vorboss or Synergy SOU).

Do you do quarterly restore testing for NHS HIOW?

Yes — for NHS HIOW ICB-affiliated organisations we schedule quarterly tested restores aligned to DSP Toolkit 9.4.

How quickly can you recover a ransomware-encrypted Southampton estate?

For 150-VM estate with immutable repositories: critical-service restore within 4–8 hours, full estate 24–72 hours.

How do you price backup for a 100-VM Southampton firm?

Three components — software licence, backup target hardware (£25–55k), implementation services (£15–30k).

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Need Southampton backup that survives a regulator review?

Send the workloads and the RPO / RTO you need.

💷 Spread the cost · IT finance

Spread the cost of backup & recovery in Southampton

Fund backup & recovery projects for Southampton businesses over a fixed monthly term — lease or hire-purchase, VAT-efficient, indicative figures only.

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Indicative estimate · subject to change · no credit check at this stage · hire purchase, lease & subscription for UK businesses

Indicative illustration only. Servnet Limited is not authorised or regulated by the FCA and does not provide financial advice or arrange finance. All finance opportunities are referred to Number Eight Business Finance. Finance policy

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