Business Continuity Services:

• Documentation and planning for disaster recovery
  
• Offsite management of recovery facilities
  
• Complete Disaster recovery plans
  
• Software Development
  

Disaster Recovery Services:

Disaster recovery and accurate disaster recovery planning, have become critical to all businesses, and in response to a number of requests from existing clients, MLR have set up a DR team which will provide you with a dedicated IT disaster recovery plan.
The services we offer can mean the difference between potential disaster for your business and a temporary inconvenience.

No business expects to experience a disaster but they happen. Around ten percent of disasters are dramatic, like fire or floods. The rest are due to hardware malfunction or software glitches. It can be a bit inconvenient when your car or the washing machine breaks down, but if the technology behind your business fails, the problems you face are likely to be far more serious.

Few can afford to take a gamble that it won't happen to them.

There are a number of different levels of DR planning, and our own offer does not encompass a "hot swap" office environment (although this can be arranged through our DR partner company). Our own plan caters for the more likely event of an IT disaster and deals primarily with the replacement of the server environment and the restoration of all of the companies operating systems and data.

THE ONLY TRUE WAY TO BE SURE THAT YOU ARE BACKING UP THE ESSENTIAL DATA YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS IS TO CARRY OUT A TEST RESTORE OF YOUR BACKUP.

You cannot do this within your own working environment as you do not have an identical set of servers to try the TOTAL restore on. We can do this as part of the DR planning process.
Other Questions for you to consider:-

• Have you assessed the effect of an interruption of operations on your business?
• Have you accurately identified the critical areas?
  
• Do you have a contingency plan?
  
• Has it been audited by a business continuity consultant?
• Are you confident of its viability? Is the plan frequently tested?
  
• Have you done everything that makes financial sense to reduce the risk of a disaster?
  
• Do your staff know what to do in the event of a disaster?

If you answer 'no' to just one of these questions you should be talking to our DR team.
Our DR service offer includes:-

• Consultancy
  
• Planning
  
• Procedures
  
• Off site backup
  
• Full "like for like" DR test including restore of Operating System and data
  
• Issue of bound Disaster Recovery plan
  
• Post plan consultancy
  

Clustering:

MLR brings to its' clients, experts in the field of clustering technologies with a vast knowledge base and in-depth hands on experience of configuring and implementing small and large scale cluster environments.

MLR Professional Services has announced offerings with new practices to help customers benefit from Windows / Linux Clustering products.

Customers can have skilled MLR consultants audit current systems to determine clustering needs, prepare clustered system for deployment and optimize current applications to maximize performance, scalability and availability on clustered systems.

Packaged practices include:

• Clustering Analysis
  
• Clustering Start-up
  
• Clustering Deployment
  
• Application Optimization for Clustering
  
• Email Server Clustering
  
• Web Server Clustering