Challenge

Solution

Benefit

Large diverse physical and virtual server estates make owning and managing a Disaster Recovery facility prohibitively expensive.

MDS VSR provides a managed virtual server recovery platform on a per VM/month charging model.

The capital cost associated with setting up a Disaster Recovery facility and the ongoing operational costs are reduced to a single operation charge, significantly lowering the cost of Disaster Recovery.

Traditional recovery from tape at a cold Disaster Recovery site or servers delivered to site no longer meets the required service levels for your organisation.

Used in conjunction with Secure Storage Vault, VSR allows you to rapidly restart vital applications in the MDS datacentre.

More demanding Disaster Recovery service levels can be met and often exceeded without a significant increase in cost for DR (often costs are reduced).

Testing of Disaster Recovery plans and facilities often never happens due to lack of resources and available service windows.

The VSR platform is managed and tested by MDS on a regular basis. You get two Disaster Recovery tests per year as part of the service. These tests are non-disruptive to service at the primary site.

You are assured that Disaster Recovery is tested for compliance and operational processes are clearly defined for Disaster Recovery without impact or risk to the organisation.

Constant change within your organisation.

MDS offers complete flexibility on the configuration of the Disaster Recovery platform without the typical penalties associated.

Your organisation can plan for change without the normal concerns over wasted investments in Disaster Recovery, secure in the knowledge that the service is always available.

Planning for all types of disaster makes building a Disaster Recovery platform costly and challenging.

Used in conjunction with Secure Storage Vault, VSR offers complete flexibility to cater disasters from individual component breakdown to full datacentre  failure.

You are assured that IT will continue to operate regardless of the disaster and impact to the primary datacentre.

IT budget constraints result in lack of resource to manage day to day operations and new projects.

MDS will manage the Disaster Recovery process from start to finish.

Frees up your valuable resource to focus on project work and allows scalability without having to employ more staff.