Business Continuity & DR Consulting

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Consulting

Know what you can recover, how fast, and how much data you could lose, before an outage tests it. Cognativ sets recovery targets with the business, then plans and tests the backups, failover, and runbooks that meet them.

Recovery targets set with the business, per service

Plans proven by real restore tests

The first consultation is free

Business Continuity Consulting That Starts with What Must Not Stop

Recovery plans fail when they protect systems instead of the business. Our business continuity consulting starts with the services customers and staff depend on, how long each can be down, and how much data each can afford to lose.

Three inputs to a recovery tier for each service

Critical services

What customers and staff rely on and what each hour of downtime costs.

Recovery targets

Maximum downtime (RTO) and maximum data loss (RPO) agreed with the business.

Risks

Outages, ransomware, provider failures, and human error that could stop each service.

A recovery tier per service: hot standby, warm standby, or backup and restore

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Disaster Recovery Consulting: Backups, Failover, and Runbooks

Our disaster recovery consulting turns the targets into three layers of protection, sized to each service so you do not pay for instant failover where a restore from backup is enough.

Four layers of a disaster recovery plan

Backups
What is backed up, how often, and where isolated copies are kept.
Failover
A secondary region or provider for services that cannot wait for a restore.
Runbooks
Step-by-step recovery procedures with named owners and decision points.
Communication
Who tells customers, staff, and regulators what, and when.

Disaster Recovery Planning You Can Test

A recovery plan is only proven when it has been run. We schedule tests that restore real systems, measure the actual recovery time against the target, and update the runbooks with what the test exposed. Cognativ has done this work for telecom and fintech platforms where outages carried direct revenue risk.

From recovery plan to proven recovery

Plan

Set Targets and Design Recovery

Recovery targets per service, the protection that meets them, and the runbooks to follow.

Test

Run It and Measure

Scheduled recovery tests, measured against the targets, with fixes fed back into the plan.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Questions

What to expect before you start.

What is the difference between business continuity and disaster recovery?

Business continuity covers how the whole organization keeps operating during a disruption. Disaster recovery is the technical part: restoring systems and data within agreed targets.

What are RTO and RPO?

The recovery time objective (RTO) is the longest a service can be down. The recovery point objective (RPO) is how much data, measured in time, you can afford to lose. Both are set with the business for each service.

How often should a disaster recovery plan be tested?

At least once a year for each critical service, and after any major change to the systems involved. High-risk services are often tested every quarter.

Does disaster recovery protect against ransomware?

Only if backups are isolated, immutable, and regularly restored in tests. We design backups so an attacker who reaches production cannot also reach the copies.

Can you plan recovery across multiple clouds?

Yes. We plan recovery in a second region, a second provider, or between on-premises and cloud, depending on the targets and the cost each option carries.

How does a disaster recovery engagement start?

With a free first consultation, then a review of critical services and current backups. We agree on scope and fees before work begins.

Resilience Case Studies

Engagements where outages, security exposure, and recovery carried direct revenue and client risk.

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Cognativ telecom case study cover for 80 percent fewer outages

Virtual CTO Cuts Telecom Outages and Failures 80%

Software Reliability Platform Modernization Release Management Virtual CTO

Cognativ provided Virtual CTO leadership to stabilize a telecom environment affected by outages, performance failures, and reactive technical operations.

The work reduced outages and performance failures by 80%, improved delivery discipline, and gave the business a more reliable operating foundation.

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Fintech Platform Reaches 99.99% Availability

Platform Modernization Elastic Scaling Observability Virtual CTO

Cognativ stepped in with Virtual CTO leadership to stabilize a fintech platform affected by reliability, performance, and scalability pressure.

The engagement helped the client reach 99.99% availability, restore customer confidence, and create a stronger foundation for regulated growth.

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Telecom Rebuild Restores Customer Trust

Platform Modernization Telecom Software Incident Management Fault Tolerance

Cognativ helped a regional telecommunications company rebuild its OSS/BSS platform and realign delivery to restore customer trust and protect key accounts.

The case reports customer satisfaction rising from 0% to 95% and full key-account retention within 12 months.

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Fintech Security: 100% Key Client Retention

Security Architecture Identity Federation Data Encryption Audit Logging

Cognativ built a Virtual CISO program to turn audit pressure, security uncertainty, and renewal risk into a clearer trust foundation.

The client retained 100% of key financial customers while improving audit readiness, evidence quality, and enterprise-client confidence.

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