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APACS ensures continuity

Attenda manages a growing Disaster Recovery infrastructure

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Attenda Limited, the Always On Managed Services company, today announced that it has been chosen by APACS, the UK payments association, to provide a disaster recovery (DR) solution. A trade association of 31 members covering 97% of the total UK payments traffic volumes, APACS provides a forum through which financial institutions can address payment issues of common interest such as fraud.

"All of the UK clearing and payment systems are subject to formal oversight and have developed stringent security and back-up procedures" said Sue Yoe, Director of Technology, Information and Facilities at APACS. "It was an obvious step to extend this to the day-to-day operations of the association and ensure the safety of our electronic data. Planning was already underway when the terrorist attacks of last July took place. The subsequent disruption and uncertainty in central London underlined the fact that we were doing the right thing. We are also very keen to mitigate the risk of any accidental damage to our building, positioned as we are near to gas pipes and close to a future underground construction project."

Attenda is now managing a sizeable infrastructure which forms a dedicated DR solution for APACS. This would be invoked as part of APACS' overall Business Continuity Plan so that email, data and specialist applications would be available to APACS staff via remote access. In the event of a real crisis all employees could work from home. A disaster rehearsal with 50 selected employees will test the new system this summer and a complete emergency run-through with all staff will follow in the autumn.

"Attenda demonstrated a real understanding of the challenges we face and the role of DR in our wider Business Continuity Plan" continued Sue Yoe. "They also provided genuine flexibility; we began with a small number of servers and were able to add capacity as we needed it. Over the past nine months we have nearly doubled the number of servers that they are managing.

We were reassured by Attenda's compliance with ISO27001, the security management standard, and their obvious DR knowledge and capability. Through their real engagement with our issues we knew we could rely on them to respond in a crisis. We are now reviewing the implementation with Attenda and discussing our next priorities."

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Attenda wurde 1997 in London gegründet und ist heute einer von Europas führenden Spezialisten im Betrieb von kritischen Enterprise- und Internet Anwendungen. Die hochsicheren Rechenzentren befinden sich in London und Frankfurt. Die deutsche Zentrale befindet sich in Frankfurt/Main.

Das Unternehmen bietet einen exzellenten, effizienten IT-Betrieb zu attraktiven Konditionen, bei dem die Service Qualität im Vordergrund steht. Zusammen mit den Kunden wird die optimal zugeschnittene Infrastruktur entwickelt, die anschließend überwacht und gemanaged wird. Attenda garantiert höchste Verfügbarkeit der Applikationen, gute Performance und die Sicherheit und Integrität der Daten. Das Unternehmen trägt die Verantwortung, beginnend bei der Server- und Kommunikations- Infrastruktur, bis hinein in die Applikation.

Attenda ist in der Lage die IT Betriebskosten signifikant zu reduzieren. Es wurden mehr als 60 Mann-Jahre in die Betriebsplattform Attenda M.O. investiert, um mit den Mitarbeitern, Prozessen und der Technologie außergewöhnlich hohe Service Levels liefern zu können. Die Kosten amortisieren sich dabei über die komplette Kundenbasis.

Das Unternehmen erfreut sich einem substanziellen, finanziellen Rückhalt, den führenden Industrie- Akkreditierungen und einem konkurrenzlosen Portfolio von Kunden, wie beispielsweise Avis, Fleurop, easyCar, Compass Group, Debenhams, Microsoft, Jordan Grand Prix und Sun. Attenda ist nach dem Security Standard ISO27001 zertifiziert, ein HP SP Signature Partner, ein Microsoft Gold Certified Partner (Advanced Infrastructure Solutions), ein SunOne Managed Service Provider, akkreditiert nach SunTone und ein SAP Hosting Partner. Attenda gewann die Auszeichnung „Service Provider of the Year“ von Sun im September 2004. Attenda ist eines der sieben Unternehmen, die im Sunday Times ARM Tech Track 100 in drei aufeinander folgenden Jahren gelistet wurde.

Wenn Sie mehr wissen möchten, dann besuchen Sie unsere Website www.attenda.de oder kontaktieren Sie Herrn Maik Bunge, Tel: +49-69-5050775-40, eMail: maik.bunge@attenda.net.

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