Disaster Recovery Services

For those businesses who wish to reduce the potential downtime from an IT system failure to minutes rather than hours or days, MD5 offer best in class disaster recovery virtualization services.  In some cases the ability to recover a system within minutes will be vital to your business such as if your Web, email or key database server goes down.  If you have to gain access new hardware, find the operating system CDs and licence keys, reload the operating system or run through system and network documents, then this may cause unacceptable delays in terms of you getting back up and running.

MD5's disaster recovery virtualization services overcome this problem by having an identical copy of your servers backed up and available in standby mode.  The solution works by hosting your operational network in a virtualized environment. If you lose your normal server or network you simply failover to the replacement service within minutes of your failure.

The key features of our service are:

• pre-recovered servers for immediate recovery of failed servers
  
• fast restore time & recovery time objectives
  
• hardware independent recoveries
  
• secure hosted environment
  
• reguler testing of pre-recovered system

If you are interested in utilising disaster recovery virtualization technology as part of your disaster recovery strategy, then contact one of the MD5 Recovery team today for a free disaster recovery consultation by completing the 'Quick Enquiry' form below or by calling 0800 046 8087

For further information about MD5 Recovery's disaster recovery products by IT asset then please follow the links below:

• Computer disaster recovery
• Server disaster recovery

How Disaster Recovery Virtualisation Technology Works

Traditionally, if you want to take a backup copy of a server (a server image) and get that copy to run immediately, without alteration, on an alternative piece of hardware, you would have to ensure that the new hardware was absolutely identical to the original machine. 

For this reason, traditional disaster recovery methods have required businesses to have a second set of identical hardware sat in a second geographically separate data room just incase it is ever needed in a disaster. Traditional disaster recovery solutions therefore have required significant effort, cost and resource to manage and many companies have found it impossible to justify versus the perceived level of risk.

Virtualisation technology gets around this problem as it breaks the bond between an operating system and the hardware it is running on.  By leveraging virtualization technology, MD5 Recovery can create a 'virtual copy' of your primary system inside a virtual machine that can be sent to a DR site and run on any hardware.  In the event of a system failure, these virtual images can be restored back to your primary system.  The ability to have different hardware in your production and DR sites dramatically reduces the cost of deploying a disaster recovery solution for your business.