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As we stand at the forefront of the 21st Century, technology has enabled to do business faster, more efficiently and in higher volume than ever before. Unfortunately nothing is perfect and when technology fails or some event means that we lose access to it, we are left helpless and stranded.

 

Business disruptions happen frequently. They may be planned outages, system maintenance upgrades, or hardware and systems failures. Periodically, larger-scale disruptions, such as power outages, fires, or major catastrophes can occur. To suffer even a short e-mail or communications outage can cost companies millions of dollars.

 

We aspire to become your disaster planning and business continuity partner. Our consultants will assist you in determining which of your IT systems are most critical to your business and help you to develop a plan to minimize your Return to Operation (RTO) in the case of a disaster.

 

A good business continuity plan could be as simple as putting down a list of steps and procedures to follow on a piece of paper and posting that information somewhere where everyone in your organization knows to look in the case of a disaster. For the more complex requirements, we are able to utilize a number of tools to ensure that in the case of a technology breakdown, your business does not suffer.

 

Online Backup

MDS offers completely automated online backup services, which ensure your data is held in a secure, off-site storage facility. No longer do you have the pain and worry about where your tapes are in case of fire / flood or indeed if your tape backup has worked at all. Now you can rest, assured that your data is safely backed up and can be restored to any location with an internet connection.

 

Data is encrypted before it even leaves your network using a key that you are the sole holder of so data confidentiality is assured. For larger customers, a disk-to-disk-to-remote backup plan can be developed, allowing you to restore data from a local source in the event of hardware failure or accidental deletion.

 

Application Continuity for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server

There are a whole range of solutions out there that claim to have the ability to make your Microsoft Exchange messaging system 'highly available'. We have experienced the good, the bad and the terrible and have selected best of breed technologies covering different scenarios that we feel confident to deliver to our customers. These include:

  • Teneros Application Continuity Appliance for Exchange - Affordable, on-site high availability to allow for planned or unplanned system downtime designed for organizations with up to 1000 users. Whilst we have significant experience in desiging and implementing clusters for Microsoft Exchange, we guarantee our other solutions from Teneros to be more affordable and more managable than an Exchange Cluster.
  • CA XOsoft WANSyncHA - WAN replication solutions for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server which allow you to keep a realtime copy of your mail or database server at a secure off-site location. In the event of a failure, loss of building or communications, our solutions can have your messaging environment operational again in minutes.
  • Microsoft Exchange Hosted Business Continuity - A business continuity solution that helps protect and provide continous access to e-mail for a business and its employees. The service provides a security-enhanced and intuitive Web interface through which users can access their previous 30 days of e-mail and can compose and send new messages in real time during a primary mail system outage.

Secure Disaster Recovery Sites

We partner with Sungard to provide our customers with a place to keep hot standby, redundant systems in preparation for system outages. In the event of systems failure, loss of building access or natural disaster, your whole business is waiting for you at a secure location outside the city. All you have to do is move your employees there where they will be set up with workstations and be back in business in minimal time.

 

For a free consultation please contact us.