The Bunker is chosen as Data Centre of choice by MASTA Ltd

MASTA, preferred travel vaccine and health advice partner to the NHS and numerous companies and organisations, operates the UK‟s largest network of private travel health clinics and has seen a dramatic increase in demand for its services. MASTA needed to source a partner that could provide a secure and scalable managed business platform from which it could run an online application aimed at the pharmaceutical industry.

The Bunker understood MASTA‟s requirements and designed and built a bespoke Open Source solution offering scalability and security allowing MASTA to rollout its online application across the pharmaceutical industry.

Andrew Halliday, IT Director at MASTA, commented “As a provider of travel vaccines and health advice, MASTA deals in highly confidential patient information. As such our business requires a data centre partner with stringent security process and accreditations. We find these qualities at The Bunker, an ISO 27001 ultra secure data centre with unsurpassed physical and digital security; they offer fully scalable solutions allowing us to grow and compliment this with bespoke setup and on demand technical advice.”

Simon Neal, Chief Operating Officer at The Bunker said, “MASTA is the latest in a growing number of companies from the healthcare and pharmaceuticals sector choosing The Bunker. MASTA is a growing company who‟s information security and critical business infrastructure dictate security. The Bunker recognised this and designed a resilient solution hosted in our military grade data centre. The Bunker‟s ISO 27001 security accreditation highlights our understanding of information security and we are very pleased to be able develop a relationship with MASTA as demand for its services increase.”
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About The Bunker
The Bunker delivers Ultra Secure Managed Hosting, Outsourced IT and Data Centre solutions from within Europe’s most secure Data Centre.
Our Data Centres, which are outside the M25 yet within easy reach of London, are ex-military Nuclear Bunkers purpose built to house the UK’s air defence systems. We run 24/7/365 and our NOC monitors systems both nationally and internationally and is staffed around the clock by system and network engineers and security staff.

The Bunker team includes recognised experts in security and cryptography renowned for their work on Apache-SSL. The Bunker is ISO 27001 and PCI DSS accredited and follows ITILv3 best practice and Prince 2 management standards. We are a Microsoft Gold Partner. We use Open Source software where appropriate as we believe it can offer great benefits in security, stability and cost effectiveness. Through our in house networks team and via close working relationships with a number of selected network providers, we deliver a multi-homed, no single point of failure transit network between our sites and the Internet

The Bunker works with over 150 clients, large and small. Our clients are Financial Services Organisations, Technology companies, local government and other regulated businesses that value a premium service built around security.

Our service is proactive, high quality, sometimes innovative, but always practical, responsive and secure. We never forget the enormous trust our clients vest in us. As an organisation we understand that our success relies upon our reputation and our reputation is earned by continuing to fulfil this trust and afford peace of mind.

The Bunker Protocol™

All Bunker-based applications are protected by The Bunker Protocol™, our proprietary, Ultra* Secure process framework that includes:

• Military-Grade Data Centres – in our underground bunker outside the M25 in Kent and our mirror facility in Newbury, both protected by integrated processes for physical, digital and human security
• Hardened Source™ – Our unique combination of open source and proprietary technologies built and integrated in-house from the source code up
• Tierless Support™ – no ‘first tier helpdesk’; tierless support – direct 24/7 access to qualified hands-on support teams

For more information visit www.thebunker.net

About MASTA
These days everyone can be a traveller. Whether it‟s two weeks‟ annual leave, a grand adventure or even working abroad, MASTA can help. From vaccinations, to advice to our award-winning Travel Health Brief, MASTA‟s expertise is second to none.
Behind the scenes our research team constantly monitors disease situations across the world, bringing together health information from many sources and providing it to our own clinic-based Nurse Experts and NHS clinics and surgeries.
Our people are chosen because they have a great attitude towards customer service. They want to help everyone‟s travels get off to a flying start by doing all they can to make life easier. That could mean providing appointments at convenient times, going the extra mile to solve a problem or simply being friendly, welcoming and approachable.
For more information visit: http://www.masta-travel-health.com/