Business Continuity Services

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A Business Continuity plan looks at the continuity of the entire organisation and its ability to ensure operations and core business functions are not severely impacted by a disaster or unplanned incident that takes critical systems offline. Whether it’s required because of a fire, flood or malicious attack by cyber criminals, a business continuity plan outlines procedures and instructions your business must follow in the face of such disasters.

We will help you through the steps for building and executing your Business Continuity Plan

  1. Business Impact Analysis – A business impact analysis defines what data your company cannot live without and the amount of downtime acceptable in a specific period of time.
  2.  Risk Assessment – A risk assessment is critical to identifying potential points of failure. For example, if you have your data stored in only one location and that location is destroyed by flood or fire, you will lose your data.
  3. Manage Your Risks – Once you’ve assessed the risks, you must manage them. Whether your data and infrastructure are on-premises, with a hosting provider, or a combination of both, regular backup of your data as specified by your business continuity plan is essential to ensure 100% uptime.

Lumina Technologies’ business continuity management services can help your business identify and address resiliency synchronisation between business processes, applications and IT infrastructure.

Our consultants provide flexible business continuity and disaster recovery consulting to address your company’s needs – including assessments, planning and design, implementation, testing and full business continuity management.

We use the most advanced technologies and best practices to help assess risks and prioritise and protect business-critical applications and data.

Our SLA will give you additional confidence that your risk of downtime will be at a minimum.

Why Choose Us?

  • Flexible business continuity and disaster recovery consulting
  • Advanced technologies and best practices to help assess risks and prioritise
  • High Availability architecture and off-site replication

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    Disaster Recovery

    Many people think a Disaster Recovery Plan is the same as a business continuity plan, but a Disaster Recovery plan focuses mainly on restoring an IT infrastructure and operations after a crisis. It is just one part of a business continuity plan.

    Many companies think that having a good Disaster Recovery plan in place is all that is needed, but an effective disaster recovery plan covers all aspects of your business, not just your IT.

    Disasters do not have to be catastrophic to have an adverse effect on your business. They could be as simple as a power cut (as BA found out to their cost in summer 2017), workers accidentally cutting through your broadband cable when digging up the road, or an emergency in a neighbouring building which results in the evacuation of your own.

    Detail-driven planning

    We can help you plan for all eventualities and will help you restore normal service as soon as possible after the disaster has occurred. A Disaster Recovery plan will deal with practicalities such as how you will communicate with your staff in the immediate aftermath of a disaster to brief them about what they need to do next. Good planning will tackle problems such as where your staff will sit if they do not have access to their desks, and it will ensure they have access to your data and systems to enable them to work.

    Recovering data from your backup is a vital element of disaster recovery, but you need to think of the most efficient way of restoring data. We can help you prioritise the data your business simply cannot survive without and make sure that’s the first thing to be restored, before tackling the other data that can wait till things have calmed down.

    Disaster Recovery system

    High Availability

    High availability architecture is an approach of defining the components, modules or implementation of services of a system which ensures optimal operational performance, even at times of high loads.

    We can design your system to avoid loss of service by reducing or managing failures and minimising planned downtime. We provide for the capability and processes so that a business has access to applications regardless of local failures. These failures might be in the business processes, in the physical facilities or in the IT hardware or software.

    Off-Site Replication

    With off-site replication, after backups run the data is securely replicated to a remote site. If there were to be a true disaster such as fire or flood, your business is protected. You’ll also be protected against more ordinary issues such as tape failure, theft or even a disgruntled employee.

    If you would like to discuss your Business Continuity strategy, contact us using the form or call 01442 500890 to find out more.

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    Lumina Technologies have taken the time to understand the requirements of our business and work as our strategic IT partner, enabling us to concentrate on delivering a high quality service to our clients and focus on our growth strategy. They have delivered a 100% cloud solution to our business with no underlying infrastructure costs or maintenance, which gives us scalability for our planned growth. It also means our business critical applications and data are securely accessible from virtually all our user devices. Lumina’s professional approach and strategic expertise is highly valued and their management of our IT – based on their in-depth knowledge, leaves us confident that our systems are available 24×7.

    Luke Harrison
    Keidan Harrison LLP

    Lumina Technologies has been Salamander Energy plc’s IT provider since start-up in 2005 and has supported us in London during our expansion across operational offices in SE Asia. Their professional approach, strategic advice and close co-operation have been essential in making this a success.

    John Bell
    Group Technical Director, Salamander Energy plc

    It has been a great pleasure working with Lumina Technologies over the past two years. They have fully committed to being involved in the local community with volunteering and with professional advice and commitment, helping many local charities along the way. As a growing company it proves that being involved in the local community is helping them attract and retain a talented workforce and I look forward to working with them well into the future.

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    The team at Lumina Technologies have made the Amoun Travel & Tours office IT transition seamless and problem free. The office set-up has been vastly improved and the IT Support services are flawless. No issue goes unresolved, which is extremely reassuring.

    Adam Helmy
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    Richard and his team are a real inspiration to anyone who meets them and I have watched Lumina’s growth over the last few years with interest and admiration. Richard has been an amazing supporter of the Hospice of St Francis, being a Gold member of the Corporate Partner Network for almost two years. He takes an active interest in the community and is passionate about his company and his town: nothing is too much trouble, he is always willing to help, to give up his time and to provide business advice when asked. Lumina is an inspiration to any company wanting to set up business in Hertfordshire.

    Carolyn Addison
    Corporate Fundraising Manager, The Hospice of St Francis

    Lumina have supported us so well through the difficult circumstances of 2020.  They worked extremely hard to ensure we were able to work remotely and continue to operate our business successfully. The support team are very friendly and knowledgeable, and have excellent response times.

    The team have also enhanced our cyber security which is so important in the legal sector, and they continue to provide high quality advice to help us move forward with our IT goals.

    Robin Illingworth
    Managing Partner, Adams & Remers LLP

    We worked with Lumina on a GDPR Audit. Richard was knowledgeable and professional throughout, and did the best he could to bring a dry topic to life through lots of real life examples and analogies. We were so impressed with the service Lumina provided and the value we got from partnering with them on this project – we couldn’t recommend them enough.

    Holly Cottingham, Vintec Laboratories

    The Vita Group HQ staff have worked with Richard McBarnet and Lumina Technologies for over 9 years, with Lumina providing all our PC, server, phone, and software support. The services have included C-level executives based in London, Manchester, the US, as well as supporting home office IT as well. The service provided and intellectual capabilities are outstanding and we would highly recommend Richard and his Lumina team.

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    CEO, The Vita Group

    Lumina Technologies Prism Hosted Desktop has allowed our business to centralise our global corporate data, allowing much faster access for all our staff – regardless of their location. We have also been able to simplify and reduce our infrastructure and management overhead. With the new Prism Hosted Desktop solution all staff now have simple and secure access to corporate data using any device they choose. Prism Hosted Desktop has increased the productivity of our staff and given us a single, consistent and familiar experience for all users from any device, in any location, 24/7.

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