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Business Continuity is a strategic issue which each company has to face day to day. Service disruption and failures on systems can be have significant impact on the business and so have financial consequences, damage to the company image, and at its worst, the survival of the company can be at risk. The main questions to which managers must be able to answer are:
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What would happen if our systems or our Datacentres fail?
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What are the risks to get a failure?
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What would the impact be on our company business?
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How long would it take to fail back to a normal service?
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How do I manage the “risk of failure” in a continuous fashion?
Business Continuity Practice
For many years MTI has developed high quality skills and methodology regarding Business Continuity by being involved on many Business Continuity projects throughout Europe. This practice is a major growth area supporting MTI’s key customers throughout Europe, who rely on MTI’s Infrastructure and storage solutions. MTI’s tailored Business Continuity solutions enable businesses to secure and manage efficiently their technology and storage environment whatever the situation. These solutions provide a company’s business lines with the best level of services to meet key objectives. MTI’s success in being able to support customer business continuity solutions is driven by MTI’s understanding of customers business and technical requirements. MTI has made key investments in staff & technology, that enables MTI to assess our customers requirements with the following services:
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Business and technical assessments
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Risks / impacts analysis
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RTO / RPO definition & Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
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Service Level Agreement definition (SLA)
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Continuity strategy & recommendations
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Architecture & solution design
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Solution centre testing - DRP / Prove of concept
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Configuration & implementation
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Business continuity test plans and DRP maintenance
Customer Business Needs & Issues
MTI’s customers run business applications which are internal and externally focused through WAN/LAN/SAN infrastructures. These solutions are business critical and as such a companies core commercial activities rely on their availability. Business pressures are further compounded by ensuring valuable data is secure, accessible and meet compliance requirements as well as system response time. MTI’s understand that customers need expert help to design and implement solutions which deliver the following business benefits as well as focusing on the overall total cost of ownership.
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MTI Expertise
MTI’s core expertise is based upon its manufacturing heritage and 25 years of operating in the infrastructure and technology industry. Over this period, MTI’s staff have developed key infrastructure solutions and the service philosophy which is at the core of MTI’s business operation. MTI’s business is built on the following key capabilities:
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Specialist in house expertise & knowledge
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Proven track record
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Capability to understand business processes
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Project management capability
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Customer focus & service
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Infrastructure vendor independence
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Industry best practices
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Highest levels of certification with our key partners
These skills, knowledge base and work practices enable MTI to understand a customers business and IT requirements. Then design, implement, test, service and maintain the solution on a 24x7x52 basis
Key Partners
MTI has built key partner relationship with EMC, Symantec and Riverbed, capitalising on their market leading position, investment in core business continuity technology, organisational skill base and industry best practice. MTI utilises it’s own infrastructure to deliver business continuity services for MTI’s own purposes as well as other MTI partners and customers.
Business Continuity Key Partners are:
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