Databarracks, a technology and business resilience specialist, has acquired Glasgow based PlanB Consulting to enhance its Operational Resilience and Cyber Continuity consulting practice.
Chris Butler, Resilience Director, Databarracks commented: “We are thrilled to have PlanB join us. PlanB has been a powerhouse in business continuity and resilience for almost two decades. They’re widely known, highly respected and one of the true thought-leaders in our industry. Led by the highly respected Charlie and Kim Maclean-Bristol, they are a multi-award winning Business Continuity Consulting business and stalwarts of the resilience community.”
Customers of the combined business can now benefit from a full suite of end-to-end operational resilience services. From data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity and incident response, through to cyber incident exercising from a National Cyber Security Centre Assured Service Provider.
Mike Osborne, Chairman, Databarracks: “There is no better independent business continuity consultancy than PlanB. I’ve spent 30+ years in the industry and over the last few years the market has fundamentally changed.
“The old guard of BC specialists has been absorbed by generalist IT service providers. Sungard Availability Services sadly went into administration in the UK. Throughout the pandemic, many of the smaller consulting providers took in-house roles, leaving ‘the big four’ as an expensive alternative.
“The operational resilience market has become fractured across cyber, data protection, IT recovery and business continuity planning, now leaving few, if any, genuine specialists dedicated to end-to-end resilience. This acquisition creates a market-leading data protection, technology recovery, business continuity and cyber resilience business offering in one.”
