If your business data disappeared tomorrow — ransomware, a failed server, a flooded office — how many days could your company survive? For most Houston small and medium businesses, the honest answer is “not many.” Aspendora Technologies provides fully managed, ransomware-resistant data backup and disaster recovery for businesses across the Houston metro, from our office in La Porte.
Houston isn’t a typical IT market. Between hurricane season, Gulf Coast flooding, and storm-surge risk along the Ship Channel, disaster recovery here isn’t a hypothetical line item — it’s a question of when, not if. Hurricane Harvey alone put thousands of on-premise servers underwater. A backup sitting on a NAS in your server closet doesn’t help when the closet floods. That’s why every Aspendora backup is replicated off-site to a geographically separate data center — so a single storm, fire, or break-in can never take out both your office and your backups at once.
Two numbers define what a disaster actually costs you. RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is how much data you can afford to lose, measured in time — a one-hour RPO means at most an hour of work is gone. RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is how fast you’re back up and running. We set both with you, based on what your business can truly tolerate, then build the backup plan to hit them. A law firm and a machine shop have very different answers — your plan shouldn’t be one-size-fits-all.
Energy and oil & gas, healthcare and medical practices, professional services, manufacturing and logistics along the Ship Channel, and nonprofits — across Houston, Pasadena, Pearland, Baytown, and La Porte.
For most clients we target same-business-day recovery of critical systems, with exact RTO/RPO targets agreed up front. Individual file restores are usually completed in minutes.
Yes. Microsoft does not back up your 365 data the way most businesses assume — retention policies and recycle bins are not a backup. We add a true, independent backup of your 365 environment. See our Microsoft 365 Backup service.
Yes. We use immutable, off-site backup copies that can’t be encrypted or deleted by an attacker who gets into your network — so you can restore instead of paying a ransom.
A local-only backup fails in exactly the disasters that matter most in Houston — flood, fire, theft, and ransomware that spreads to attached drives. Off-site replication is what makes a backup survivable. For broader protection, pair it with our managed IT services in Houston.
Most "backups" have never been tested. When you need them, they fail.
Old-style backups connected to the network get encrypted along with everything else.
If you are rebuilding from scratch, you are closed for days, losing thousands.
Tell us about your business and your technology challenges. We listen — really listen — and ask the right questions.
We assess your current setup and deliver a clear, jargon-free plan tailored to your business.
We handle this for you so you can get back to doing what you do best.
Most servers and critical workstations are backed up continuously throughout the day, with point-in-time snapshots taken hourly. Full daily backups are stored both on-site and offsite.
Yes. We routinely test restores to validate that backups are recoverable. A backup you have never tested is a backup you cannot trust.
Encrypted offsite backups are stored in geographically separate data centers, away from the Houston area, so a regional disaster cannot take out both copies.
An immutable backup can’t be changed, encrypted or deleted by anyone, including an administrator, until its retention period ends. It’s stored offsite, separate from your network, so even if an attacker takes over your servers and your admin accounts, the backup copies stay untouched.
Because modern ransomware goes after backups first. Before encrypting anything, attackers look for backup servers, connected drives and cloud backup accounts, and delete or encrypt them so you have no choice but to pay. An ordinary backup is only as safe as the passwords that protect it. With immutable offsite backups, there is always a clean copy they can’t reach, which turns a ransomware attack from a potential business-ending event into a restore.
No. A drive left plugged in gets encrypted along with everything else, and file sync services such as OneDrive or Dropbox faithfully copy deletions and encrypted files to every device. Sync keeps files in step; it doesn’t keep history. A real backup keeps multiple versions over time, stores them separately from your systems, and at least one copy should be offsite and immutable.
Yes. Server and computer backups don’t cover your Microsoft 365 email, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams, and Microsoft doesn’t back that data up for you. Its built-in recycle bins only keep deleted items for 14 to 93 days. We back up Microsoft 365 separately. Learn more about our Microsoft 365 backup service.
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