Technology Solutions
Backup and DR
In an era of relentless ransomware threats, business continuity has never mattered more. Lightstone offers comprehensive backup and disaster recovery advisory services, crafted to protect IT leaders from untested plans and inconsistent coverage. Our approach combines rigorous provider evaluation with real-world testing standards, ensuring your recovery plan actually holds up when it matters most.
Backup and DR Solutions With Lightstone
We help you evaluate backup and disaster recovery providers and architectures, spanning on-premises, cloud, and hybrid approaches, and compare recovery time objectives, testing cadence, and total cost across providers, so the solution you land on is matched to your actual risk tolerance and recovery requirements, not a generic package.
Disaster Recovery as a Service
RTO/RPO Design
Regular Testing and Monitoring
Ransomware Recovery Readiness
Compliance-Aligned Data Protection
Hybrid Backup Strategies
Failover and Business Continuity
The Outcomes We Drive
- Confidence that a real recovery plan exists and has actually been tested, not just documented.
- Reduced downtime risk from ransomware or infrastructure failure.
- Lower total cost by matching the backup architecture to actual recovery requirements instead of over-provisioning.
- Stronger compliance posture around data protection.
The Advantage We Provide Tech Leaders
Backup and disaster recovery decisions are easy to underinvest in until the moment they matter most. Lightstone helps you evaluate providers and architectures against your real recovery requirements and risk tolerance, so the plan you have on paper is one that will actually hold up when you need it.
Talk to a Backup and DR AdvisorWhen to Engage Lightstone
There's no clear recovery time or recovery point objective documented anywhere.
Backup and disaster recovery plans haven't been tested recently, if ever.
Coverage is inconsistent between on-premises and cloud workloads.
Nobody's confident the business could actually recover quickly from a ransomware event or major outage, and compliance requirements around data protection have gotten harder to keep up with.
How Lightstone Works With You
Assess the Environment
We start with your current backup architecture, recovery requirements, coverage, and testing history, so every recommendation is grounded in what you actually have.
Evaluate the Options With You
We compare providers and architectures across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid approaches, including recovery objectives, testing cadence, and total cost.
Source End to End
We manage the sourcing process from provider evaluation through proposal analysis and negotiation support, so your team can make a confident decision without carrying the process alone.
Tech Leaders Have 5 Options. One Has Their Interests Built In.
Every hour spent on research, RFPs, and pricing comparisons is an hour not spent on strategy that moves your company forward. That's the true cost of the first four options.
Option 1: Trust Supplier Sales Reps
Every supplier sales rep has exactly one job: sell their company's product, whether or not it's the right fit for you. Many will say anything to hit quota. And reps change companies constantly, so the person who sold you the deal is rarely the person still there when you need support two months later. Zero incentive for honesty.
Option 2: Trust Traditional Consultants
Hourly consultants get paid more the longer an engagement runs, so the incentive points the wrong way. Many are also tied to a short list of supplier relationships they need to keep fed, which limits how neutral the advice actually is.
Option 3: Work With VARs and MSPs
Resellers and managed service providers can only sell and support what they're certified on, typically a handful of suppliers. That's not vendor neutrality, and it's a narrower version of the same bias.
Option 4: Do It Yourself
Technology now changes faster than most companies can make decisions. Good decisions requireheadcount most companies won't fund. Going it alone means becoming the market expert in multiple technologies, on top of your actual job, on a market that changes weekly.
Option 5: Lightstone Technology Advisor: The Truth
Lightstone puts in months of work at no cost to our clients before a purchase is made. If we get it wrong, we lose because we are profitable only if our clients come back. We get paid the same regardless of what supplier you choose. Our incentive is the same as yours: find the best fit, and keep it working for the next 10 years, not just get a deal signed.