Do you have a Disaster Protection & Recovery Plan?
Astoriom has extensive experience in assisting some of the world’s top R&D companies and CROs in saving entire collections of samples from unexpected disasters and peril.
With over 30 years of experience in outsourced stability storage and equipment backed by our own service and validation teams, first class customer service and a highly skilled team of disaster recovery technicians, we can assist you with all your disaster recovery needs at a cost-competitive rate.
Backup System
Backups are important for the business continuity of Astoriom. In the event of disaster, backups can be used to restore important data and systems to a specific point in time, ensuring that the information on your samples will always be relevant. Each of our facilities is served by a continuous power supply to make sure that any power outages or fluxes are covered.
With 24/7/365 cover of our sites, we are always looking after your samples.
Experience and Capability
There is a plethora of outsourced capabilities in the market to handle the products you have on store currently and varying positive and negatives of how these will all meet your requirements to reach ISO:22301 standards.
Astoriom has a robust disaster protection and recovery service, planned to the finest detail and the ability and staff to react at any time day or night. At a time that will be stressful, such as dealing with a disruptive incident in your business, you need the experience and a plan that has been tried and tested on many occasions. Our sample relocation experts make sure the volume of products you are looking to move can be managed safely and securely within one site location, helping you to reduce the need for multiple site planning. Having all the correct ICH and custom conditions your products may need to be stored in is imperative.
Contingency Planning
We can help protect samples when you face internal threats such as power outages or equipment failure, as well as external threats such as natural disasters including floods, fire, or earthquakes. The scope of our disaster protection sample storage capabilities include a single box of samples to the contents of entire fridges, freezers and cold rooms. We also offer laboratory refrigeration equipment in the UK through Cool Repair, an Astoriom company. Our expertise in sample storage allows us to be the perfect partner to advise you on the development of your disaster recovery plan.
Astoriom offers dedicated disaster planning & recovery contracts that enable us to provide reserved space in our on-site secure stability storage suite or alternatively hold additional samples on site for you to call-off when required.
Fleet Service (UK and Europe)
Astoriom offers a mini-fleet of specialist transport vehicles in the UK through our MTS Cryostores location which enable us to easily transport a variety of equipment types to locations of your choosing across the UK and Europe. Alternatively, we are able to work with a number of highly reliable, reputable third parties to arrange this on your behalf.
The Value of Partnering with Astoriom
Quality and Compliance
Whether you are developing a disaster protection plan to prepare your onsite samples to survive the impact of a disaster such as a fire, flood or power outage, at Astoriom, we provide to our customers consulting to support your sample storage business continuity planning and contracting.
Geographical Business Continuity Coverage
Many companies operate from multiple facilities either within the same territory or globally. Partnership with a provider like Astoriom who has global coverage is beneficial to allow a more unified approach to Business Continuity Management standards. We have global standards through our own Quality & Compliance site standards, meaning that wherever the site, whatever the product, the process will be managed, monitored and executed to the same high standards, giving you complete peace of mind in the quality storage of your samples.
If you are looking to reduce the number of providers used for the same or similar activities, partnering with us would enable you to achieve this goal, while achieving some significant cost savings.
Cost
Disaster recovery planning is partially an insurance policy, therefore, whilst you may find a provider who will offer this service for free, be warned that charges will be added upon execution of the activities. A good provider will charge a minimal monthly amount to keep space provision onsite in case of a disruptive incident. Employees should be kept on an on-call rota and assigned tasks and duties in readiness for any such eventuality. A partner who is up front with their costings, services and charges is the type of partner most will and have chosen.