Green job reports don’t restore data — tested recoveries do. I help enterprise teams prove their backup environment is stable, secure and genuinely recoverable from a cyber attack, hardware failure or outage.
Data protection is no longer a back-office job. It is core infrastructure — tied directly to your security posture, your AI plans and your ability to survive an incident.
Backup and recovery platforms control access to all enterprise data. They must be locked down and integrated with identity and security tooling — not left on default admin accounts.
AI and analytics workloads can run on read-only copies of your data, adding zero load to production systems. Done right, your backups become an asset, not just insurance.
Immutable copies must be protected from accidental deletion and cyber attack. When everything else is compromised, they are what keeps your business running.
Identity hardening, immutable copies, recovery testing and threat detection for your backup platform.
Retention, legal hold, SaaS protection, residency and cost — your data, governed end to end.
GDPR, Australia’s Privacy Act, NIS2, DORA and more — with a free regulation finder.
A hands-on review of your backup environment, on any platform — stability, performance and alignment with current best practice.
Modern attacks target identity — compromised credentials and over-privileged accounts. Find out who can reach your backups, and how exposed you really are.
Your SLAs are only real if you’ve proven you can hit them. We test recovery against cyber attack, hardware failure and system outage.
Architecture and implementation for AWS, Azure and hybrid workloads using Commvault, Veeam and complementary tools.
Practical recovery runbooks and immutable backup strategies for ransomware and destructive attacks.
Hands-on configuration hardening, storage optimisation and policy alignment to bring you up to current standards.
A hands-on review of your platform, configuration, access and recovery capability.
I engage your backup vendor directly to confirm your configured backups can actually be recovered.
A clear written report: what’s working, what’s at risk, and what to fix first.
Optional hands-on support to close the gaps and retest until you’re confident.
Deep, hands-on Commvault experience — from architecture and administration to Commvault Cloud. I keep across every release so your environment stays supported, secure and getting full value from the platform.
Book a Commvault health checkI’m Brandon Potts. For more than 30 years I’ve designed, run and rescued enterprise backup and recovery environments — across law firms, financial services and global service providers. No account managers, no junior consultants: when you engage me, you get me.
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