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Mentora Managed Application Hosting

Mentora hosts and manages the complex high-availability Web applications and infrastructures that are our customers' businesses.


Mentora Managed Application Hosting provides custom services for complex Linux, Unix and Windows environments in premier Internet Data Centers: AT&T, Qwest and Savvis.

Mentora customers speak to their named-engineer-on-call (never a call center). We are the 'operations branch' of their IT team providing top-quality, cost-effective 24/7 support for networks, servers, operating systems, databases, storage and applications.


We go beyond infrastructure management with a unique Application Availability SLA that demonstrates our commitment and accountability. Since 2001 we have provided managed application hosting for SaaS/ASP, retail, healthcare, finance, B2B and non-profits.

v      Outsource management of your critical applications to a team that responds as an extension of your own team

v      Ensure availability and inspire confidence with a fully-redundant name-brand top-tier data center

v      Free-up your technical teams for creative development

v      Let us handle the 3 AM alert

v      Delegate your database maintenance to professionals

v      Host your development, test and DR environments with geographic separation and unified support

 
We provide a team of dedicated professionals, committed to custom service, to ensure maximum uptime and performance for your business-critical web applications.  We provide the facilities of a top-tier hosting site backed by the resources of AT&T, Savvis or Qwest with Mentora as the single point of accountability.


Managed Application Hosting Services

Our fully-outsourced managed application hosting is designed to meet your business needs with provisioned and/or customer-owned equipment and a full menu of services.

v      Facilities & ConnectivityFacilities: Rack or caged space in fully-redundant top-tier data center; physical, electronic, and biometric security. Connectivity: Up to 4.8 Gbps internet connectivity via two separate providers; Network Operating Center monitored 24/7.

 

v      Hardware & Software – Hosting for provisioned or customer-owned equipment; Hardware: Configuration and BIOS upgrades; break/fix services; remote hands; availability & status monitoring. Software: operating system installation & configuration; security hardening; patch management (Linux, Unix, Windows); database administration; availability & status monitoring.

 

v      Network & WAN Management – Dedicated or shared network infrastructure; internal & public IPs; DNS services; WAN configuration of Frame Relay, ATM / IMA, and private lines; 24/7 operational support; availability, status & bandwidth monitoring.

 

v      Performance Management – Performance monitoring of business transactions; early warning via configurable transaction performance targets; performance graphed over time; drill-down to resource utilizations to diagnose root-cause; performance testing to validate system capacity and fail-over under load.

 

v      Incident & Problem Management – 24/7/365 operational support; named-engineer-on-call; trouble ticket system; customer portal for remote monitoring & reporting.

 

v      Security Management – Dedicated or shared firewall, firewall management; VPNs; intrusion detection & IDS management; systems software hardening; security audit/vulnerability scanning and notification.

 

v      Storage Management – Disk arrays; Storage Area Network; system backups; data archival.

 

v      Transition & Migration Assistance to manage the relocation logistics from your current hosting facility; systems engineering to help you select cost-effective infrastructure; hardware, software & network installation; disciplined project management to meet the needs of your vendors and customers.

 

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We power our application hosting through partnerships and tools including AT&T Internet Datacenters, Qwest Datacenters, Savvis Datacenters, EMC’s Symmetrix, Clarion, and NetApp network storage solutions, Oracle9i / 10g, SQL Server, Sybase, Postgres, and MySQL database management systems, Computer Associates’ Brightstor ARCServe and Veritas’ NetBackup storage backup software, operating systems Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, several distributions of Linux, and Windows, and a variety of monitoring tools, including SiteScope, Nagios, MRTG, Cacti, GroundWork, and custom-developed monitors.

 

 

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We provide confidential application hosting services to eCommerce, healthcare, entertainment and insurance companies serving customers throughout the world.

 
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