MRI has invested significantly to provide clients with maximum performance, availability and security through our two world-class data centre facilities in the UK, which includes:

High-performance, next-generation SaaS architecture, designed from the ground up for security, scalability, performance, resilience and flexibility

Encryption at rest provides protection for your data sorted in the MRI environment

All hardware owned and managed directly by MRI engineers, providing granular control over the network infrastructure

All system hardware dedicated to MRI clients only, with maintenance windows fully controlled by MRI

Enhanced security incorporated into hardware systems design, further elevating MRI’s data protection capabilities

Security

The following security components are standard within the UK SaaS data centre platform design, supplemented by new features including SAN Level AES 256 encryption at rest on Production and Backup SANs:

Perimeter firewall
Reverse proxy
Defined segmentation and communication rules between:
- Reverse Proxy and Application Servers
- Application Server and associated Database Server Images
- Multiple Application Servers
- Application Server and SaaS Active Directory Servers
Dedicated Client OU and Installation Accounts provisioned on DMZ Active Directory Server
Appliance based Intrusion Protection System with automatic signature updates
Anti-Virus and Host IDS Monitoring with automatic signature updates
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection

Resilience

The MRI UK SaaS hardware platform has been designed to eradicate single point of failures within compute, network / communication and storage components where possible.

Performance

Full solid-state storage arrays are used for Production, hybrid solid-state storage arrays are used for Backups.

MRI UK Data Centre

The following table provides technical information regarding the MRI UK Data Centre

Data Centre Locations	Global Switch 2 23 Nutmeg Lane London E14 2AX Digital Realty Goldsworth Park Trading Estate Kestrel Way Woking GU21 3BA
Data Centre Tier Classification	Tier 3
ISO 27001:2013 Data Centres	Yes
Distance Between Data Centres (as the crow flies)	28 miles
Data Centre Facilities	Redundant Utility Power Multiple Fibre Carriers n+1 Backup Power Generators n+1 UPS Battery Backup Units n+1 Cooling Infrastructure Pre-Action Fire Suppression 24x7 on-site security and video surveillance Verification and unique card physical access controls
Production Storage	Fibre Channel SSD
Production Storage Encryption	Array Level AES 256
Backup Storage	Fibre Channel Hybrid SSD & SATA / SAS
Backup Storage Encryption	Array Level AES 256
Network Switches	Redundant 100Gb Network Backbone
Application Tier DMZ / VLANS	Micro-segmentation
Database Tier DMZ / VLANS	Micro-segmentation
Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware	Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware Signatures updated at least daily
Backup Policy	Daily backups are kept for one month, monthly backups are kept for 1 year.
Monitoring	Hardware Monitoring Virtualisation Monitoring Intrusion Detection and Anti-Virus Monitoring Operating System Monitoring Application Specific Monitoring Application Component Monitoring

MRI has invested significantly to provide clients with maximum performance, availability and security through our two world-class data centre facilities in the UK

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