Don't get caught out by a catastrophic IT failure
24th September 2009
Linetime, one of the leading providers of Legal IT, announce a new Managed Business Continuity Service and have joined forces with an established provider to offer a cost effective and proven Business Continuity Service. In the event of a catastrophic IT failure the affected services can be made available within a few hours – depending on the service level selected. This service will protect your reputation, help you to continue trading and help you to retain your valuable customers in the event of a disaster or serious IT failure without making a major dent in your IT budget. Prices start from as little as £200 per server per month for a typical Small Business Server plus connectivity and setup costs.
Linetime’s partner states
“Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery contracts have become an essential component of any organisation’s IT policy – ensuring compliance with data protection legislation as well as providing critical protection for business operations. We provide business continuity with a difference. Not only can we provide you with the assurance you need that your business critical data is fully protected and backed up for near instantaneous recovery at any time. But you can also be sure that this is achieved at a significantly lower cost to your IT budget compared with traditional data centre and disaster recovery services.
Using a unique virtualisation platform, we are able to create an exact mirror image of your business critical systems, without the need for a power hungry, physical server infrastructure. The Managed Business Continuity Service has changed the face of IT recovery, removing the requirement for tape restoration, typically a time consuming and arduous task for the most experienced IT department.
This service provides truly continuous protection. Duplicates of your IT systems are made available for use from our secure data centre within minutes, or up to a few hours of a disaster occurring (dependent on your choice of service level). We continually replicate and protect your IT systems 24x7x365, so that you won’t lose any vital data in the event of a disaster or serious failure.
Every change that occurs on your site is duplicated to ours; every e-mail, every transaction, every document, every program. This process is monitored to ensure your business critical data is available should the need arise. Your servers are completely protected; and for total peace of mind an initial test of the service is included in the setup price. Furthermore, because your replicated infrastructure is in a virtual environment there are no additional Microsoft licence considerations.
We perform the recovery for you, which will reduce the dependency on your own IT staff (if you have a dedicated IT team) to be involved. You won’t have to wait for replacement equipment to arrive or wait for your IT staff to turn up at our data centre facility; we take care of everything for you.
A further benefit of our service is that your IT systems can be made available for you to use anywhere in the world. Using secure authentication methods, your staff can access your systems from anywhere with an internet connection and a compatible desktop or laptop; allowing you to continue to function even in the event of a loss of access to your office premises. And finally, when the disaster has passed, we will help you to restore normal operations back at your own site, or even to a new one.”
For more information contact John Dickens (Operations Manager) on 0113 250 0020 or email johnd@linetime.co.uk.