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Case Studies
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Agriculture/Agribusiness
MIMIX Availability, Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX
Automotive
iTERA Availability, Double-Take Share (formerly Replicate1),
MIMIX Availability, OMS/ODS
Construction and Heavy Equipment
Double-Take Share (formerly Replicate1), iTERA Availability
Education
Double-Take Availability for AIX, iTera Availability
Finance, Securities and Banking
iTERA Availability, MIMIX Availability, OMS/ODS,
Double-Take Availability for AIX, Double-Take GeoCluster
Government
MIMIX Availability,
Replicate1,
Double-Take Availability for AIX
Health & Pharmaceuticals
iTERA Availability, MIMIX Availability,
OMS/ODS, Migrate
While Active,
Double-Take Share (formerly Replicate1), Double-Take Availability for AIX, Vision Data Manager
Insurance
Vision Director, MIMIX Availability
Information Technology
MIMIX Availability
Manufacturing
iTERA Availability, Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX, MIMIX Availability,
Data Manager,
Media, Entertainment and Gaming
Double-Take Share, iTERA Availability, MIMIX Availability
Perishable Goods and Grocery
iTERA Availability, MIMIX Availability, OMS/ODS, Double-Take, Double-Take Availability for AIX, Double-Take GeoCluster for AIX
Retail
iTERA Availability, MIMIX Availability
Transport and Logistics
iTERA Availability, MIMIX Availability, OMS/ODS, Double-Take Availability for AIX, Migrate While Active
Utilities
iTERA Availability,
OMS/ODS, Vision Director, Double-Take Availability for AIX
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Ball Horticultural
Ball Horticultural's SAP data and applications must be available all of the time for its worldwide employees and systems must be up to accommodate online orders. With no “off hours” to perform regular system and database maintenance, Ball needed a robust HA environment to eliminate planned and unplanned downtime."
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Krishidhan Seeds
Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX allows Krishidhan Seeds to recover from server failures in minutes. With thousands of transactions logged by Krishidhan’s systems on a daily basis, an unexpected disaster could result in a direct and damaging loss to the business. Krishidhan strengthened its IT infrastructure, an important pillar for one of the largest seed providers with a global footprint.
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Product(s): Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX |
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AGC Automotive
ACG Automotive provides quality products and services worldwide for the automotive industry. With worldwide operations it is necessary to keep data and information in synch at all times. Using Double-Take Share (previously Replicate1) they are able to do that.
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Product(s): Double-Take Share |
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Autoliv
For Autoliv, downtime can result in missed delivery requirements and measurable revenue losses. The company contracts with nearly every automaker in the world, and some contracts even specify a fine for late shipments. Every effort is made at Autoliv to reduce both planned and unplanned downtime. |
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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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AMPORTS
Major automakers worldwide rely on AMPORTS for portside vehicle processing services including damage inspections, repairs, washing and accessorizing. AMPORTS is continuously graded for on-time deliveries and other metrics. Disaster recovery is a customer-driven requirement: automakers like GM and Ford require real-time data, and that’s business critical for AMPORTS. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Faurecia
Faurecia needed to maintain production at seven manufacturing and logistics sites in four locations in Poland and ensure rapid return to normal business operations in the event of unplanned downtime. |
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Product(s): OMS/ODS |
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Unipres
Unipres runs its primary business applications on one of the most reliable systems available, IBM i, but a highly reliability system was not enough to prevent application downtime. |
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Product(s): iTera HA |
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Wheeler Machinery Company
Wheeler’s business is all about providing high levels of service to their heavy equipment customers. Its managers need timely access to information in order to make critical decisions quickly. Wheeler needed a way to remove the BI workload from production systems while also providing managers with access to up-to-the-minute data. |
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Product(s): Double-Take Share, iTERA HA |
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Parsons Corporation
Parsons is a leader in many diversified markets with a focus on infrastructure, environmental, and
defense/security. With 12,000 employees staffing 4,500 projects across the United States and around the
world, Parsons must analyze an enormous volume of data to manage its business effectively
and profitably. To maximize the value the company receives from its data, its employees need
to be able to access data using familiar tools that make it possible to “slice and dice” the data
in innovative, comprehensive ways. |
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Product(s): Double-Take Share |
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Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Ltd., India
Managing large-scale projects is all in a day’s work at India’s giant industrial engineering
and procurement construction conglomerate, Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Ltd. There was not a
problem or challenge that could not be resolved by its able workforce. Hence, the implementation of a disaster recovery (DR)
backup solution to fulfill its corporate compliance requirements was expected to be equally
straightforward. |
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Product(s): Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX |
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British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
The greater Vancouver area, home to the British Columbia Institute of Technology's campus, is in an earthquake zone. Protecting the availability of critical data and the applications that manage them is a major component of BCIT's disaster recovery strategy. |
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Product(s): EchoStream for AIX |
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Crown Point Community School Corporation
Crown Point Community School Corporation (CPSC) depends on its systems to manage its financial operations, keep student records, route school busses, and more. If it relied solely on tape-based backups to protect that data, recovery times would be lengthy. What’s more, because backup jobs are typically run nightly, up to 24-hours worth of data may be missing from the most recent backup tape. |
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Product(s): iTera HA |
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TheBANK of Edwardsville
TheBANK of Edwardsville had hot site agreements with several vendors. But even with those agreements in place, TheBANK reckoned that a disaster that rendered their banking systems unavailable would still result in the loss of thousands of dollars, despite their best recovery efforts. |
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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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Unibill
Unibill provides ASP billing services to land line, long distance, wireless, and VoIP telephone companies, as well as vendors who offer cable TV. Unibill’s business model demands 24/7 system availability for real time call rating, along with 100% data integrity. So management was concerned when one of the most severe hurricanes of the 2005 season caused Unibill to lose communication between its primary and backup production computers, before they could test their newly installed iTERA HA solution. |
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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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AB Bank
AB Bank is the first private sector bank in Bangadesh with 77 branches across the country, providing Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, SME Banking, NRB Banking, Islami Banking, Investment Banking, Merchant Banking and project finance services. The IT challenge is how to ensure the business continuity 7x24 non-stop. The bank finally decided to select MIMIX Availability as it is 100% compatible with MISYS application and the benefits are various. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Alfa-Bank
At the end of every business day, Alfa-Bank must perform “end of day” procedures for their banking application. During this time, bank customers cannot access their accounts, conduct transactions or use services across delivery channels such as internet banking or ATM machines. With plans for expansion across multiple time zones within Russia, Alfa-Bank needed to completely eliminate its IT downtime and achieve nonstop business continuity. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Associated Bank
Associated Bank runs their core banking application on IBM Power Systems. Associated Bank has used MIMIX to provide HA between their two geographically dispersed data centers, and run quarterly role swaps with production running on their secondary system for a week at a time. As they needed to upgrade their core banking application they decided the easiest and least disruptive method of performing the upgrade would be to run a role swap after upgrading the target system, swapping production activities to this upgraded system.
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Aurora Bank FSB
Aurora Bank FSB is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. Our bank is rich in history, with its origin dating back to 1921. Today the Bank services over 340,000 customers with all types of services and products including mortgage loans. Their data requirements for these applications include being highly available. They selected MIMIX HA and combined with the services from Vision have performed annual tests and switchovers with no issues.
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Bank Niaga
With over half of its business transacted electronically over a vast network banking systems, and 24/7 customer access, Bank Niaga grew concerned with the exposure that a single compute point represented. Recovery from a serious iSeries server malfunction would take 10 hours with its cold-site backup strategy. |
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Bank Sumsel
As leading provider of financial resources for business activities in South Sumatra, Bank Sumsel must continuously improve the quality of its business operations to meet the rising expectations of its customers, especially as the province of South Sumatra is experiencing great economic growth and development. |
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Product(s):
MIMIX HA |
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Israel Discount Bank of New York
All companies need to protect the availability of their critical data, but banks are unique in
this regard. Their data represents money. If banks can’t access their data, individuals and
organizations can’t access their assets. Consequently, bank auditors and regulators take data
and application availability very seriously. Thus, for IDB Bank, fast recovery after a disaster or
after any other unplanned downtime isn’t just a “nice to have.” It’s mandatory. |
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IndusInd Bank
Located in India’s commercial capital, Mumbai, IndusInd Bank understands the significance of business continuity in a financial environment. The Gujarat earthquake, Tsunami and the Mumbai deluge have demonstrated the adverse impact calamities can have on a bank’s business. IndusInd required a solution that could ensure that the bank never faced downtime. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Kingland Systems
For both stockbrokers and the auditors who vigilantly monitor them, computer system downtime resulting in unavailable data or applications could trigger a major crisis. Systems must be continuously available. Making sure they are is Kingland Systems’ stock in trade. If Kingland is unable to meet its SLA obligations to keep systems up and running it can cost the company more than $160,000 per instance. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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OCBC Bank
With more than one million electronic transactions processed every day, OCBC Bank
must be able to ensure that its IT systems are protected against both downtime and data loss. Any interruptions to service would have immediate and serious repercussions, damaging the excellent reputation OCBC Bank has forged over the decades. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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PermataBank
As a major provider of fi nance and banking services, PermataBank must ensure the highest
levels of customer service through a variety of delivery channels including ATMs, internet
banking, mobile banking and teller services. Any interruption would mean serious damage
to the bank’s reputation. PermataBank required an industry-proven high availability solution
to protect the real-time delivery of banking information to its employees and customers at
anytime of the day or night. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Volksbank International AG
In order to stay competitive in today’s financial marketplace, banks must be able to serve their customers at any time of the day or night from any location—not only during business hours at a branch office. With hundreds of thousands of customers across Central and Eastern Europe that rely on its banking services, Volksbank International AG needed a solution to keep its critical banking services and data protected and available at all times. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Allied Bank
Allied Bank's credit card processing requires their IBM i systems to be available 24x7, 365 days per year. If their main environment were to become unavailable due to planned or unplanned downtime it would be a big problem for Allied Bank. |
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Product(s): OMS/ODS |
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Commercial Bank of Ceylon
As an organization dedicated to delivering superior value to all of its stakeholders,
Commercial Bank of Ceylon holds managing risks as an important tenet of its business
strategy and it selected OMS/ODS from Vision Solutions as a key element of
that strategy. |
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Product(s): OMS/ODS |
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Crédit Lyonnais
Crédit Lyonnais needed a High Availability (HA) solution to meet the rigorous demands of its business and its customers. Many institutions rely on Crédit Lyonnais’ to provide accurate and reliable information on a real-time basis. In addition, Crédit Lyonnais’ management requires all critical data to be protected. Moreover, customers often demand availability by imposing an operational backup clause in their contracts with Crédit Lyonnais. |
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Product(s): OMS/ODS |
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RaiffeisenBank
With the expansion of 24/7 credit and debit card use, RBA needed to harden the systems involved in clearing these transactions. Existing recovery capabilities were limited in terms
of the number of users and transactions they could accommodate. Furthermore, these
transactions could not be cleared in real-time, which represented a liability for the bank. |
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Product(s): OMS/ODS |
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First Future Credit Union
First Future Credit Union relies on Symitar’s Episys core processing system for its member
services management, running its 19 branch offices in the San Diego area. In order to keep
First Future in business 24/7, it is critical that these systems remain available and protected
against both planned and unplanned downtime. |
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Product(s): EchoStream for AIX |
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Heritage Building Society Limited
Heritage Building Society provides online processing services for its 59 Branches and Community Branches, 71 Mini Branches and 24/7 services including
Online and Phone Banking. Given the importance to honour its People First culture, Heritage
strives to provide the highest system availability possible for its members. |
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Product(s): EchoStream for AIX, EchoCluster for AIX |
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Product(s): Vision EchoCluster |
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Employees’ Provident Fund
Using both MIMIX Availability and Double-Take Availability, Employees’ Provident Fund, headquartered in Kuala Kumpur, ensures continuous availability of online retirement fund information for 12.4 million members. At EPF, all member records have been computerized and are no longer available in paper form which means the electronic system must be foolproof and infallible.
According to Ravi Kumar T. Wickniswasarajah, senior IT manager at EPF Malaysia, “Our
mandate is to protect the savings and contributions of almost half the country’s population
and if EPF cannot recover the databases in time of a crisis, we could potentially have a
national disaster on our hands.”
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Product(s): MIMIX Availability, Double-Take Availability |
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City of Hoover, AL
For the city of Hoover, Alabama, a single server runs a vital suite of integrated software
applications used by city staff, departments, citizens and businesses. The city needed
a high availability (HA) solution that would protect its investments and provide business
survivability for the city if a natural disaster or other emergency caused this essential system
to go down.
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Broward County Public Schools, FL
When the Broward County Public Schools data warehouse was first started in 1996, the vision was that data could make a significant difference in student achievement. This vision became a reality as Broward County began to empower thousands of non-technical users with information from its data warehouse. It also became clear that timeliness was a vital factor, and that Broward County parents, students, teachers and administrators needed real-time, on-demand data sharing.
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Product(s): replicate1 |
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Skagit County Government, WA
Skagit County uses public safety software from Spillman Technologies, Inc. Needless to say, the continuous availability of that software and supporting database is critical. So far, the county has not suffered any major data losses, but its public safety system incurred a couple of days of downtime a few years ago. That downtime spurred the county to look for an affordable, full-featured high availability solution.
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Product(s): EchoStream and EchoCluster for AIX |
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UMC
For processing in the MedSeries4 system, UMC users were offline for 30 minutes to an hour each night. The resulting difficulties included requirements for manual data entry that took far more than the actual downtime. UMC sought an HA solution to bring end-of-day downtime to less than five minutes and discovered a solution that reduced it to less than two minutes. |
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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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The Jackson Clinic
The Jackson Clinic relies on Misys VPM (Vision Practice Management) software for its office operations and Misys EMR (Electronic Medical Record) software to run its nine medical clinics in western Tennessee. In order to keep the Jackson Clinic up and running, it is critical that the VPM and EMR systems remain available and protected against both planned and unplanned downtime. |
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Product(s): EchoStream for AIX |
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Australian Pharmaceutical Industries
Limited (API)
API’s business runs 24 x7, servicing and processing orders, requests and enquiries from
pharmacists, agents, suppliers and customers. However, this “Always On” business
environment began to take a toll on its ability to manage and archive its data. Operational
changes were needed to meet supply chain and legal obligations while still ensuring
uninterrupted business continuity. |
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Product(s): Vision Data Manager |
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ProHealth Care
As a major provider of health care services and a major employer in southeastern Wisconsin, ProHealth has a profound commitment to its community. Business continuity is vital. The organization’s tape-based backup system could not deliver the rapid recovery required. ProHealth looked for a solution to eliminate downtime and protect its critical data and applications. |
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Product(s): EchoStream for AIX |
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MidMichigan Health
To make certain doctors always have immediate access to critical patient information, MidMichigan Health utilizes a state of the art electronic medical record solution that delivers vital data around the clock to its hospitals and health care facilities. MidMichigan Health needed to ensure that the solution would remain up and running in the event of an unexpected IT outage or during planned system downtime. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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B. Braun
B. Braun’s greatest challenge is the sheer criticality of its applications. Any downtime affects both the warehouse inputs from the factory and the warehouse outputs for export. When B. Braun Spain became the company’s “Surgical Sutures Center of Excellence,” the criticality of its applications once again drew increased attention and concern, and as a result it was decided to look for an externally developed replication and high availability solution. |
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Product(s): OMS/ODS |
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Adventist Health
The computing load placed on an aging IBM AS/400 model 730 caused response times to
swell, so a powerful new IBM System i model 570 was acquired to take its place.
All of the healthcare facilities supported by this system operate on a 24/7 basis, with
Adventist employees accessing and updating patient charts continuously. A conventional
migration from the AS/400 to the new System i model 570 was going to result in an
unacceptable amount of downtime—potentially more than 20 hours. |
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Product(s): Upgrade/Migrate While Active |
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Grupo Uriach
Grupo Uriach employees needed to share critical global business data including accounting entries, manufacturing orders, purchase orders, stock, client and supplier invoices and other information regarding clients, suppliers, articles and manufacturing structures. Their solution was to use Vision Solution’s replicate1, which makes information available to the people who need it, when they need it. It provides real-time, on-demand access to data between any applications, regardless of database format or operating system. |
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Product(s): replicate1 |
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ALICO (American Life Insurance Company)
The Wilmington, Delaware home office of ALICO serves as the IT development shop for all of ALICO's production offices around the world. For each of these offices, the Wilmington IT department codes, enhances and fixes applications; installs new releases; resolves issues; manages disk storage space; and, when necessary, restores entire computing environments. |
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Shenzhen Social Insurance Fund Administration
The Shenzhen Social Insurance Fund Administration manages 7.2 million retirement accounts, 10.8 million medical insurance accounts, and 9.5 million industrial and commercial insurance accounts. An IT system failure of any magnitude could have disastrous consequences. MIMIX Availability ensures the continuous availability of these systems and requires a minimum amount of time and skill to maintain. |
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Product(s): MIMIX Availability |
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Wagner AG
As an IT service provider, Wagner AG focuses on delivering turnkey solutions for SMEs. Wagner needed to ensure uninterrupted access with robust recoverability for thousands of customers who depend on its infrastructure. To increase uptime Wagner chose MIMIX Availability for its inherent stability, ease of use and pervasive switch readiness.
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FTI Corporation
FTI Corporation manufacturers clothing that reaches the market bearing highly recognizable labels including Banana Republic, GAP, Old Navy and Dockers.
The company relies on a sophisticated ERP system and automated data exchange capabilities to pass key factory processing and production scheduling information between several facilities in different time zones around the world. The negative effects of unreliable power delivery in several of these locations could not be offset by two backups per day so FTI implemented Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX to enable the rapid recovery of mission critical servers and eliminate data loss.
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Product(s): Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX |
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Mundi Westport Group
Mundi Westport Group manufactures and distributes leather goods under the names Mundi, Kenneth Cole, Sag Harbor and Joseph Abboud. It sells 20 million products annually. Information collected during the pick and pack process is used to invoice customers. If Mundi Westport’s AIX-based Power 520 server is unavailable the company cannot complete these activities. Mundi-Westport uses Double-Take RecoverNow to maintain an identical backup server. It also uses the CDP feature in Double-Take Availability to roll back data and quickly troubleshoot problems.
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Product(s): Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX |
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Beaulieu Group
Beaulieu Group LLC, based in Dalton, Georgia, paid huge monthly fees for a hot site subscription. At best, this service could provide only a two to three day recovery time,
and the recovery point would only be up to the last tape save, which could be as old as
24 hours.
The last system failure that occurred just prior to the implementation of iTERA HA for i5/OS left Beaulieu Group down for two days. Among other things, the fix required a full reload of applications and data from tape. |
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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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TDK Australia
TDK Australia chose to take disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) solutions in house. When the company upgraded to one IBM® System i as the company’s main server, it was clear that any downtime could affect TDK’s ability to service its customers. The company evaluated options for an easy, cost-efficient way to protect their critical IBM System i applications and data. |
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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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In order to successfully support its operations in over 60 countries across 5 continents,
Serviplem has highly systematized all its work. Consequently, losing access to their
information systems, even for a few hours, prevents the company from invoicing, taking
orders, manipulating inventories, and carrying out the most basic functions. Perhaps
the most critical dependence in the system is the ERP production module; Serviplem’s
worldwide workforce is absolutely dependent upon access to this system, so continuous,
24 x7 availability is required, year round. |
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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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Ply Gem
Ply Gem never closes. Its manufacturing plants and shipping docks operate around the clock. However, as is the case in most organizations, the company cannot be fully operational unless its business systems are available. When Ply Gem’s IBM i-based ERP application, JD Edwards OneWorld, is offline, the company cannot take orders, ship goods, invoice customers, or apply received cash to the books. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc.
As a global supplier of manufacturing technologies and services with facilities on five continents, Barry Wehmiller is essentially open for business 24/7. As a result, downtime is very costly regardless of when it occurs. Yet, system downtime is inevitable. Berry Wehmiller ensures the availability of its IBM i-based computing environment with MIMIX Availability from Vision Solutions. According to Claude Stoltz, the company’s manager of enterprise applications, “MIMIX opened people’s eyes to the ability—and the need—to have the system up and running quickly after a major failure.” |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Nelipak
The IT infrastructure is a business-critical component of Nelipak’s business strategy.
The company’s competitive advantage is closely aligned with its world-class R&D division. That and the firm’s unique production processing techniques are the true capital components of Nelipak’s success. Because the company’s know-how is stored on a high performance IBM® server platform, there was a clear need for a high availability
(HA) solution. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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CCL
While hardware failure was a very unlikely scenario with the highly reliable IBM server, CCL needed to plan to protect its data and continue operations in the event of a power outage or natural disaster." |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Insulectro
Insulectro is a leading supplier of PCB materials used to manufacture circuit boards. Spyglass handles their network systems. They needed to get one solution for HA/DR for their distribution center and 9 offices and chose MIMIX for this. They needed no downtime and religiously perform switches to test the system. |
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Product(s): MIMIX |
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Alro Group
Two years ago, Alro Group outgrew their IBM iSeries model 270, so they replaced it with a
new, dual processor System i model 520 with a hefty 700 gigabytes of DASD. Surprisingly,
in a short period of time data-creep pushed disk utilization on the new system to 60
percent. Only 30 percent of this data was useful in a production setting.
Alro Group’s first backup on the new server was initially written to disk and then to tape.
Because of this, disk utilization suddenly spiked to 90 percent. |
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Product(s): Data Manager |
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Barona Resort and Casino
The gaming mandate of Barona Resort & Casino demands that no outside systems should
be able to access or change any production data. This would be easy to do if there were no links to the outside world, but Barona
wanted to set up a Web-based “Player’s Lounge” where guests could log in and see what
offers have been mailed to them and how many points they have in their accounts. |
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Product(s): Double-Take Share |
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Barona Resort and Casino
Casino operations use information systems 24x7. Gaming could continue for a few hours in
manual mode, but if a system shutdown lasted any longer than that, casino operations would
have to stop. Each hour that play is halted would result in considerable lost revenue. Thus, protecting the availability of the systems that run
the resort and casino operations is essential. |
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Product(s): iTera Availability |
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Barona Resort and Casino
The nature of casino information systems is such that very high volumes of records are
continually inserted, updated and deleted. Yet, deleted records continue to consume space
until the database is reorganized. Barona’s resort and casino operate 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, but traditional file reorganization tools required that applications be shut down
while the files they used were being reorganized. Barona needed a way to perform database
reorganizations without affecting ongoing business operations. |
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Product(s): Reorganize While Active |
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Boyd Gaming
Boyd Gaming can’t afford downtime in its 24/7 environment. Excellent customer service and data integrity are critical to the company’s success in the gaming industry. The company looked for an HA solution that would help them avoid out-of-synch conditions and achieve repeatable role swaps. |
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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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Ameristar Casinos
With a growing number of leased end-of-life servers located in multiple states, Ameristar
wanted to streamline its systems. A consolidation including purchasing new IBM Power
Systems servers was targeted to reduce costs, speed and simplify processes for users and
for the IT staff. To limit planned downtime and
avoid the negative business impact of unplanned outages, the team made high availability
and smooth role swaps essential elements as they worked to design the new
environment. |
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Product(s): iTERA HA, Director |
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Mohegan Sun Casino
Gaming operations at Mohegan Sun Casino in southeastern Connecticut run around the clock, and downtime for their systems is not an option. View this video testimonial and hear Harold Nelson of Mohegan Sun Casino explain how Vision's HA1 and Cluster1 products protect the business from downtime. Harold also cites an example from 2006 when Vision Solutions' Mimix provided recoverability after a significant hardware failure. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Wimbeldon
Data and applications play a vital role at Wimbledon in ticketing systems that directly impact customer service and revenue generation. The All England Lawn Tennis Club naturally wanted to make absolutely certain that its systems would be available during the annual two-weeks of Championships and the period leading up to them. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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Associated Wholesalers, Inc.
Associated Wholesalers, Inc. (AWI) operates 24x7 in a competitive industry. If it can’t deliver
products to its customers, other wholesalers stand ready, willing and eager to fill that gap. Clearly,
lengthy data and application outages are not an option for AWI. |
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ABC Fine Wine & Spirits
Category four and five hurricanes in the summer of 2005 caused
management at Florida-based mega-retailer ABC Fine Wine & Spirits to examine their
vulnerabilities. 154 busy retail stores in latitudes as far north as Tallahassee and as far south
as Miami could be isolated without access to the company’s IBM System i 550, which is
housed in the executive office complex next to its 250,000 square foot distribution center in
Orlando. |
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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
The key to Krispy Kreme Doughnut’s brand building effort is their ability to serve hot, fresh doughnuts at convenient outlets any time of the day. To ensure that customers get the freshest baked goods possible Krispy Kreme maintains a complex supply chain that is managed with sophisticated technology. 100 percent system reliability is required for these core systems. An interruption in system availability could have
a seriously negative impact on Krispy Kreme. |
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Nicholas & Company
As a broad-line foodservice distributor, Nicholas & Company delivers food and other products to a wide range of customers, from the smallest restaurants to national fast-food chains. Investments in technology have helped Nicholas & Company continue to meet a key customer demand in this highly competitive industry: on-time delivery. |
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Oliver Adams Ltd.
Oliver Adams knows that when it comes to craft-baked goods, minutes matter. So protecting
against any delays caused by computer system downtime is a vital ingredient to its
success. |
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Alpura
Alpura must be able to process, package and deliver its high quality dairy products to supermarkets across Mexico less than 24 hours after production, and always under the strictest quality control. Downtime, planned or unplanned, that delays this continuous supply chain, even for a few hours, is a serious matter. |
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Certco
Certco is a wholesale distributor to independent supermarkets. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Certco is a full service supermarket supplier and offers one of the largest variety of products in all departments of any grocery wholesaler in the region, including a growing number of specialty foods. Certco also offers our retailers many retail support services to help the independent retailer remain successful. They can’t afford to be down and with MIMIX Availability they ensure they aren’t.
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Casino
Keeping huge amounts of retail goods flowing to its stores is the main task for Casino.
Any downtime would have dramatic consequences for its long and complex supply chains. The sales outlets utterly depend on timely and accurate deliveries. Casino’s IT team must ensure that the company’s 17 warehouses have constant access to their data and applications
to ensure that the business does not come to a sudden standstill. |
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Devro
Devro requires a high availability (HA) solution to provide business continuity and reduce the potential impact of system downtime on stock levels, customer delivery schedules and incoming orders. |
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Tony's Fine Foods
Trucks move in and out of Tony’s Fine Foods’ warehouses nearly 24 hours a day and a system outage would impact the receipt and delivery of products including perishable items. To maintain its superior customer service, Tony’s needed a way to protect against unexpected downtime and provide flexible ways to manage planned downtime. |
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Product(s): MIMIX HA, EchoStream for AIX |
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Dairy Farmers
To assist in unified reporting and establish common systems across its enterprise, Dairy Farmers consolidated onto a single integrated ERP system. With no backup window, no allowance for system downtime and huge transactional volumes, Dairy Farmers needed a robust HA solution to ensure continuous business operations. |
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Delta Greece
Delta Greece needed to enable its business to operate 24/7 to ensure that perishable goods are delivered on-time to customers. Furthermore, the company needed an effective, easy-to-manage solution to keep core systems running. |
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Product(s): OMS/ODS |
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Nutreco
Rapid growth through acquisition left Nutreco with a wide variety of business applications running on different computing platforms. To promote greater operational consistency, Nutreco elected to centralise its operations on an enterprise-wide ERP solution called Movex from Intentia. Movex runs on an IBM® eServer System i computer. With its entire global operation running on a single system, Nutreco made high availability a high priority. |
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Alpura
Alpura must be able to process, package and deliver its high quality dairy products to supermarkets across Mexico less than 24 hours after production, and always under the strictest quality control. Downtime, planned or unplanned, that delays this continuous supply chain, even for a few hours, is a serious matter. |
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PFG
With an eye on disaster recovery, PFG had implemented MIMIX HA for i5/OS to protect
the mission-critical applications on the company’s production IBM System i server.
Pressed for 24/7 availability and with increased growth and market opportunities, PFG saw the need to optimize uptime for all of its systems. To minimize planned and unplanned downtime for its Windows-based applications, PFG looked to Double-Take® for Windows from Vision Solutions. |
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Puregold Price Club
A major concern for Puregold Price Club is ensuring the 24/7 availability of its core
merchandising application, JDA MMS, across its entire network of stores. The application
is powered by a single production server, which already crunches more than three
terabytes of data, a workload which is expected to increase with the addition of more
stores next year. It is critical that this application receives and distributes data across the
network continuously and accurately. Thus, the company needed a solution to constantly
replicate data to a backup server so that they could be assured of fast recovery in the
event of a crisis.
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Quixtar
Sometimes a solution yields benefits well beyond the initial business requirement. That’s exactly what happened when Quixtar, Inc., an online health and beauty retailer, sought a high availability solution for its back-end business applications.
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Staples
Staples runs its global business operations, including systems that support 24x7 Web sales, on System i servers. Because competitors are just a click away, any business stoppage will result in considerable lost sales and customer dissatisfaction. Staples needs its systems up and running no matter what, including during scheduled maintenance and unplanned system outages. |
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Gucci
GUCCI GROUP WATCHES, the producer and vendor of the Swiss made GUCCI watches,
relies upon the M3 ERP system from Lawson Software to keep its business running.
Due to increasing volumes of data being stored in the ERP system, the response time of the
program had also increased. The reason: All data was being stored in the production data base.
The project goal seemed clear: The full productivity of the ERP system must be maintained
continuously. |
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C.R. England
As one of North America’s largest trucking companies, C.R. England simply cannot
afford to have its business-critical trucking operation applications offline. Downtime could translate to frustrated customers and thousands or even millions of dollars in lost revenues. C.R. England looked for a high availability (HA) solution that would provide reliable synchronization
between the production and backup machines to avoid delays and problems during role swaps. |
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Dupré Logistics
Dupré Logistics is a diversified logistics solution and services firm with annual revenue of $140-million. The company’s core business systems run on an IBM i-based Power Systems server. Dupré’s customers rely on 24/7 service which makes the company’s tolerance for downtime very low. iTERA Availability maintains a real-time replica of all of the company’s applications and data on an identical server located in a data center about 500 miles away. The distance between the two centers means that it is almost impossible for a disaster that strikes one to affect the other. |
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TCY
TCY serves four leading shipping companies, including the world’s largest. For each shipping line, TCY must keep precise track of each and every container; its exact location in the port; its shipping movement records; and the days it is held at the terminal. All that information is managed by TCY, who must provide its customers with 24/7 continuous online information availability, 365 days a year, in spite of being in a hurricane zone. |
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McLane Polska
An internal audit of uptime requirements revealed that it could take up to 24 hours to get McLane Polska’s distribution and financial systems online if a major event compromised
its servers.
Also, McLane Polksa’s technicians had only a small window to perform backups,
system maintenance, and testing. Given the company’s operational scale, its high degree
of complexity, and the huge number of documents possessed by this system, its technicians worked intensively over the weekend to complete these tasks. |
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APL Limited
APL is a global business that operates 24x7 every day of the year. Consequently, the
company tolerates no more than four hours of production system downtime per month. APL needed an environment that allowed it to protect its critical data and applications
and maintain exceptionally high availability, without putting an undue strain on business
applications. |
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Southwestern Motor Transport Inc.
For Southwestern Motor Transport (SMT), the product is service. Fortune 50 customers
demand real-time information about their shipments, and SMT delivers it via email and web portals. To satisfy its premier customers and compete successfully for new business, SMT needed a solution to protect against planned and unplanned downtime.
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T-Join
As Taiwan’s largest freight-forwarder and logistics company,
T-Join must ensure that its customers can access real-time information about their deliveries at any time of the night or day. But with 60 decentralized computers that could not share data and required planned downtime for routine maintenance and backups, customers often could not get accurate information on delivery status. |
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Tradeteam
Tradeteam became aware that even minimal downtime could be substantial to its customers and, in turn, to their customers. Not willing to jeopardize the quality of service
its customers had come to expect, Tradeteam looked for a High Availability solution. |
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F. Reyher
F. Reyher company sought to build a low-risk IT infrastructure capable of supporting corporate growth. Creating a crash-resistant SAP system was of vital importance for the survival of the company. |
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DKSH
When it created a leading edge consolidated data center to centralize its worldwide
SAP-based ERP solution, DKSH also knew that it needed to ensure the data center
was continuously avialable. So DKSH began its search for an effective AIX data protection
and recovery solution.
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Raven Transport
Raven Transport is a growing company. Consequently, it needed to upgrade it's IBM® Power 520 Model M25 server. At the same time the company wanted to upgrade the operating system from V5R3 on the old machine to V5R4 on the new server. Because it runs a lean IT department, Raven Transport needed some assistance in performing the migration quickly and seamlessly, with little or no downtime.
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Daehan City Gas Company
Daehan needed to ensure continuous supply of energy from its underground gas
pipeline to its customers and to be able to respond and re-route supply quickly
if one of its pipelines was affected by a disaster or construction work. But
that required their IT systems, including their AIX-based Geographic Information
Systems (GIS), to be always available, without question. An able and reliable
disaster recovery system was vital for maintaining access to detailed
information about affected pipelines in response to service calls, repairs or
emergencies. |
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Great Plains Communications
When Great Plains Communications transitioned to a paperless service order system, the company could no longer fall back on hard copies to rebuild transactions if a system failure should occur between daily tape backups. A reliable high availability (HA) solution became a business imperative. |
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Norcal Waste Systems
Solid waste management is a vital community requirement, often listed with such services as fire fighting and power generation. With its headquarters in San Francisco, Norcal Waste Systems was aware that ensuring business continuity in the event of an earthquake or other emergency was a wise move. The employee-owned and operated company also recognized that monitoring and optimizing its IBM System i environment could increase efficiency and productivity. |
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Škoda Auto a. s.
Škoda relied on tape backups for disaster recovery but needed to ensure the uninterrupted
availability of a Windows-based server involved in the production process. The implementation of Double-Take Availability significantly shortened Škoda’s Recovery Time Objective. Since then, Škoda has also deployed Double-Take Availability on servers that
host critical systems for the Maintenance of Assembly division.
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Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority
SCAA required a data replication product that would support their business continuity plan
and see its applications and services protected against the risk of downtime. This would
be implemented as part of a full-scale IT infrastructure deployment. The organisation chose
Double-Take Availability for its ease of use, cost-effective deployment and integration into the
overall continuity strategy.
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Cross IT Services and Solutions, LLC.
Server migrations and system upgrades are two of the many tasks that Cross IT performs for its clients. Doing this in a complicated computing environment that lacks complete documentation can be problematic. Consequently, Cross IT needed a data migration tool that allowed it to perform migrations quickly and cost-effectively in an unlimited number of environments. Double-Take Move allowed Cross IT to perform migrations with a fraction of the labor and time normally required.
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Commerzbank
Commerzbank’s internet banking customers have come to expect uninterrupted access to their
accounts through online banking systems. Several specific requirements were identifi ed to establish
a more resilient web-based banking environment. First and foremost, they needed to protect
their client data and minimise server outages. The use of Double-Take Availability and Double-Take Move were the products of choice to
ensure the bank’s integrity on a 24/7 basis.
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Switz Group
As a manufacturer of bread and other baked goods, Switz Group required a business
continuity solution for its JD Edwards ERP solution that is responsible for running its
production lines and ensuring it can meet its recovery time objectives. The company chose
Double-Take Availability for its Windows and Linux servers to benefit from real-time replication
of its data and applications and protect its ERP system against any risk of downtime.
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Clarion
Clarion is a law firm that required a new platform for its disaster recovery requirements, ensuring that
critical data was protected and that applications could be up and running as soon as
possible after any failure event. Included within this was the need for a cost-effective and
reliable solution that would not require too much management overhead. Clarion deployed Double-Take Availability to protect both their virtual and physical servers and their SAN. Clarion now has a full disk-to-disk DR platform in place that can provide fast restoration of
services in the event of any incident.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
As a top American security research facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) needed to dramatically minimize downtime on a network of secure servers housing classified data. After a storage array failure destroyed a considerable amount of data, and subsequent restore efforts failed, managers at LANL decided changes were necessary to prevent further losses. LANL deployed Double-Take RecoverNow on two Windows Server 2008-based Dell PowerEdge systems over a secure network to another offsite server in real-time. Now, recovery is fast and easy.
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MerSETA
MerSETA is the Manufacturing and Engineering Education and Training Authority in South Africa. It is one of the 23 SETAs established through the South African Skills Development Act that supports the staffing objectives of 44,000 companies and boasts a workforce of 600,000. Over time, the management of their tape backup strategy became an overwhelming administrative challenge. Furthermore, the amount of time needed to restore system access far exceeded an acceptable RPO. To solve this problem MerSETA deployed Double-Take Availability because it worked flawlessly over limited bandwidth. The implementation of Double-Take Availability took only one day and their business has been completely protected ever since.
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Boston Celtics
Recovery from tape could take the Celtics one to two weeks if new servers had to be built or
procured. Tape was used in both the Waltham and Boston offices and was stored at an offsite
location. With tape backup conducted nightly only, the Celtics were left each day with 24
hours of new, unprotected data.
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Ambrian Capital plc
Ambrian Capital is a leading investment and financial services company specialising in the
natural resources, mining and cleantech sectors. It works with investors and institutional clients
to drive value for its operations around the world. Ambrian is listed on the London Stock
Exchange. Regulated by the Financial Services Authority, it is required to have a full business
continuity strategy in place that would see critical applications and services back up and
running within the same day in the event of a disaster.
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Tufton Oceanic
Tufton Oceanic’s fund managers use various applications to monitor and administer its
portfolios, investments and funds. Considering the pace of change in asset pricing in today’s
financial markets and the intensive scrutiny of financial industry players by investors and
regulators, being unable to monitor and maintain its funds for an extended period due to
system downtime could be financially disastrous.
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Nestlé Water
With business continuity a critical requirement for the company, the availability and protection
of data from Nestlé Waters’ various sites had to be extremely reliable. The company also
had another major challenge surrounding the availability of bandwidth between its branch
offices. Nestlé Waters has three sites spread over an area of 600 miles. In total, approximately
360 users across the company are connected to its Ostazi ERP solution on a daily basis for
purchasing, finance and production tasks.
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HCT Transportation
HCT Transportation’s systems must be operational around-the-clock to process an average
of 300,000 daily information transactions. For several years, HCT relied on tape backup and
offsite tape management for disaster recovery. Due to the critical nature of their systems,
tape restoration could not support the company’s objectives going forward since it took too
long to recover.
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Hampden Group
Hampden Group has provided management and services to the insurance sector for more
than 30 years. As part of one of the largest insurance markets in the world, Lloyd’s of London,
the company advises over a thousand Lloyds Members. The company required an update to its business continuity plan that could meet its
requirements for real-time data protection, reduced recovery time objectives and simplified
management. Support for virtual and physical server platforms was also required.
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Alphawest Services
Like all successful organisations, Alphawest relies on several critical internal systems for its
day-to-day operation. Alphawest had already embarked on the journey into virtualisation
with the implementation of an internal private cloud, based on VMware’s vSphere platform,
and NetApp storage. However a single centralised and consolidated data processing
resource could not protect against a site-wide outage or natural disaster.
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Bahrain Islamic Bank
“Customers are used to services being available during office hours from a branch, but they
demand access around the clock when these services are available online”, commented
Waleed Dashqooni, server infrastructure assistant manager at BISB. “Making sure that
these services were protected against downtime was therefore a key consideration as part
of our overall business continuity program. This drove us to evaluate how we protected our
applications in general, as well as how we would recover in the unlikely event of a failure.”
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Employees’ Provident Fund
Using both MIMIX Availability and Double-Take Availability, Employees’ Provident Fund, headquartered in Kuala Kumpur, ensures continuous availability of online retirement fund information for 12.4 million members. At EPF, all member records have been computerized and are no longer available in paper form which means the electronic system must be foolproof and infallible.
According to Ravi Kumar T. Wickniswasarajah, senior IT manager at EPF Malaysia, “Our
mandate is to protect the savings and contributions of almost half the country’s population
and if EPF cannot recover the databases in time of a crisis, we could potentially have a
national disaster on our hands.”
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Raymond James Ltd.
Double-Take Availability protecting critical applications. Raymond James Ltd., a financial services company, uses an IBM document management system, Exchange and SQL Server to manage critical daily operations. Business activities are negatively impacted when these systems become unavailable. They needed a HA/DR solution that could operate across all of the company’s physical and virtualized environments. At Raymond James, Double-Take Availability dramatically reduces downtime caused by disasters, system failures, human error and system maintenance.
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Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies
Disaster Recovery: The impact of unscheduled downtime on physical and virtual servers would affect profitability at Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies. As a pharmaceutical products manufacturer, they must also be able verify the existence of a sound disaster recovery strategy. Vision Solutions’ partner Frontier Continuity Service uses Double-Take Availability to replicate Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies’ servers to the Frontier cloud service, located at its secure data center. With this technology, they have reduced their RPO from 24 hours to just two hours. |
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Encompass Lighting Group
Double-Take® Availability protecting J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne application: Located in Skokie, IL, the Encompass Lighting Group develops some of North America’s premier lighting brands. Their core business applications include ERP (JD Edwards), fax automation (orders receipt system), and a bar coding data collection system called dcLINK. Encompass Lighting had an increasing demand for real time, full server availability – including availability of the data, applications and the operating system. If a disaster were to occur, they had no real time, reliable solution to depend on to protect and quickly recover their critical workloads. These insecurities led them to investigate and eventually implement a new technology solution – Double-Take Availability. |
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Derby County Council
Derbyshire County Council provides educational, social, public transport and public safety services to a community of 750,000 citizens. They have a large amount of data to manage and without access to this information, the ability of the Council to serve the public would be seriously impacted. They needed a simple, effective method for backing up their data without affecting everyday activities. “Double-Take Software’s approach to data replication complemented the Council’s existing business continuity processes and was the most cost-effective way for us to meet our DR aims,” said Jake Moore, Derbyshire County Council service delivery specialist. |
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Cassling
Improved DR with Double-Take Backup & Double-Take Availability: "We needed a current, more effective DR solution with real-time replication for the day-to-day backup and recovery operations of our MS Exchange 2007, SQL Server 2005, Blackberry for Exchange, and our web servers," said Roger Hill, Director of IT, Cassling. "It was time to update and refine our DR solution for these business critical applications, which called for the right installation of the right infrastructure at the right price." |
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Chandler Concrete
By deploying Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology, Chandler Concrete has created the business agility it needs by improving its recovery time to an hour or less while enhancing it's overall disaster recovery plan. It has significantly improved the productivity of its staff and have developed a competitive advantage that will help with continued growth. |
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HotSchedules
HotSchedules is the premier provider of online restaurant workforce management solutions. With help from Double-Take Software, Microsoft and Dell, the company consolidated more than 50 physical servers to 3 Dell PowerEdge nodes with Dell PowerVault iSCSI storage hosting the 50+ virtual nodes using Double-Take for Hyper-V. Also, Double-Take for Windows is being used for near real-time replication of their data to an offsite location for their SQL database. |
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Wagga Wagga City Council
Leveraging Livewire: To manage its immediate data protection needs, WWCC initially adopted the real-time data protection of the Livewire solution in a many-to-one topology, which provided the ability to create images of all servers from the production site at the disaster recovery site. |
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Locaweb
Workload Portability ~ Physical to Virtual Migration with VMware Infrastructure: Fernando Zangrande noted, "We are very satisfied with Double-Take Software for the simple fact that although we evaluated other software, no other software was as simple as Double-Take. Their workload portability solution for migrations was easy, cost-effective and the best solution out there." |
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MLS PIN
MLS Property Information Network, Inc. (MLS PIN) decided to replace its 60 stand-alone servers with 20 clustered servers, each supporting dozens of virtual machines that run Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ technology and the Sanbolic Melio file system. MLS PIN now has a dynamic data center which includes Double-Take that can quickly pivot to meet the demands of business and deliver reliable availability to customers, while reducing annual hardware-related costs by 60 percent and operational costs by 30 percent. |
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Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A.
Jose Rojo, an Exchange administrator at ST&R, explains, "I sincerely could not believe my eyes when I saw not only the capabilities of TimeData but also the simplicity of the deployment - even in a Cluster environment! TimeData is a very simple and powerful database recovery tool indeed.” |
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Littelfuse
Disaster Recovery: "The many different features of Double-Take seemed to address our wide array of problems for improved backup and recovery," explains Ted Archer, Network Manager, Americas Region. "Double-Take can be used to protect any type of application too. In fact, we utilized our existing infrastructure and plan to use Double-Take for data replication, disaster recovery, physical to virtual migration, and much more." |
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MassHousing
Virtualization and Business Continuity: MassHousing had two fundamental challenges - 24x7 data access and support for a highly-complex IT infrastructure that includes SQL, Progress, Pervasive and Exchange, as well as a virtual environment featuring products from VMware. In the event of a system failure that prohibited access to data, MassHousing would not be able to provide any customer service, would be unable to transfer funds or share data with banks and its own staff would be prevented from completing its day-to-day work. In other words, data loss would necessitate a virtual shut-down of operations. To avert this, MassHousing selected Double-Take. |
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Abbey Press
Complete Business Continuity: Abbey Press, a well-known provider of religious and inspirational goods, is a significant revenue producer for the Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana. The Abbey Press web site is responsible for a steadily increasing portion of that revenue. With the promise of continued growth ahead, Abbey Press chose GeoCluster Plus to assure business continuity. |
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Metrologic Instruments
Dell Case Study - After testing a few products that turned out to be quite limited, Metrologic chose Double-Take Software for storage replication. “The first few products we tested either couldn’t do real-time replication of certain CAD files or couldn’t do byte-level replication,” explains Schwartz. “We kept ending up with numerous copies of the same file everywhere. That is not very efficient from a storage perspective. Double-Take solved those issues. Beyond the benefits of file sharing between data centers, effective replication also played into both our backup and disaster recovery strategies.” |
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State of Nevada DMV
Dell Case Study - The State of Nevada DMV is working with Dell to upgrade its existing Dell/EMC CX400 SAN to accommodate new virtual servers. Additionally, it is working on a new remote disaster recovery site with a Dell/EMC CX3-40 SAN in Nevada. Double-Take will replicate data between the two locations to provide two fully redundant disaster recovery and production sites. “Dell’s industry expertise and alliances with leading-edge technology innovators such as VMware and Double-Take Software enables customers to leverage emerging trends such as server virtualization in their solutions,” says Wannetta Bernard, Production Control Manager for the DMV. |
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Chickasaw Nation
Chickasaw Nation must keep their data within their sovereign realm and therefore the Nation has its own disaster recovery (DR) data center in Norman, Oklahoma. Currently, they use GeoCluster to replicate their financial systems to the DR site and Double-Take to replicate the HR/Payroll system. They test their DR plan semi-annually and have successfully tested the financial systems without a problem and zero data loss. It takes less than 5 minutes to fail over from the primary cluster in Ada to the DR server in Norman. They are also able to fail back their primary cluster with zero data loss. |
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Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Disaster Recovery and Failover with Whole Server Recovery: Osler, a leading Canadian law firm, realized the vulnerability associated with tape backup and wanted to implement a disaster recovery solution that would protect their business continuity operations, protect critical client data and help eliminate human error if downtime occurred. After reviewing four software packages as well as exploring different ways to move data, they looked to Double-Take Software for real-time replication and whole server recovery. Given that this was a critical endeavor for Osler, Double-Take Software’s impressive customer service and support team were major factors in the decision. |
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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Failover and Protection for Exchange and BES: NCMEC is unique for many reasons, one being a 24-hour, toll-free Hotline for the recovery of missing children in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice. When a child goes missing, 24x7 action is crucial and the availability of business-critical applications is vital to that process. Like many organizations today, NCMEC’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) is one of those critical applications. Their BES allows for constant communication and information sharing when looking for a missing child. Therefore, uptime (or minimizing downtime) is an essential part of their overall disaster recovery plan. |
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MWABank
MWABank wanted to leverage the benefits of virtualization while providing a true disaster recovery plan with real-time data protection, high availability and recovery. After reviewing several products, MWABank decided that the combination of Dell’s hardware, VMware’s virtual machines and Double-Take Software’s replication technology was a no-brainer. |
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Baxter Credit Union (BCU)
Like many organizations prior to working with Double-Take® Software, BCU relied on tape backups for disaster recovery. Yet, while tape backup is a good tool for archiving, the IT team at BCU know that a true disaster recovery plan would require an easier recovery process, failover and strict RPO/RTO objectives. Today, BCU protects their physical and virtual environments with a strategically architected solution that combines Double-Take and Double-Take Server Recovery Option (SRO). Read their story today. |
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McWilliams Forge
Reliable, fast recovery with failover: Like many organizations prior to joining the Double-Take® Software family, McWilliams Forge relied heavily on tape backup for business continuity. The catalyst for finding a better way to protect and recover their data came after having a severe production server crash. To recover, the McWilliams Forge team spent more than 40 hours rebuilding the system and though it worked, the recovery process was incredibly expensive, time consuming, and challenging for the team. As a result, McWilliams Forge recognized the need to provide an enhanced DR solution as well as 24x7 application availability for business continuity. Learn why they chose Double-Take Software. |
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Hatch Mott MacDonald
Disaster Recovery: When Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast in September 2005 the Mobile, Alabama office was forced to close for a week, and Hatch Mott MacDonald (HMM) was ready. HMM worked with Dell and Double-Take Software to create a plan and build a solution to meet their needs by using Double-Take. The plan was resilient at many different levels and centered around the creation of a secure centralized backup facility that would house replicated data from all of the company's North American offices. |
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S.H. Smith & Company
Real-time data protection and recovery: Prior to working with Double-Take® Software and VMware, S.H. Smith & Company did not have a solid disaster recovery plan. Without an updated disaster recovery plan in place, an outage could potentially have a major impact on their business. With the need for an enhanced disaster recovery plan to ensure business continuity, S.H Smith & Company looked to Double-Take Software and VMware for a reliable solution. |
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Scan Alarms & Security Systems (UK) Ltd.
Local high availability: Scan Alarms & Security Systems, one of the largest privately owned electronic security companies in Northern Ireland, realized the need for local high availability when their aging RAID controller failed, causing Scan to be without important customer data for nearly three days. Shortly thereafter, Scan purchased Double-Take for fail-proof business continuity. Read their story. |
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Multimedia International Services
Real time data protection and failover: Multimedia International Services operates the UK’s largest electronic point of purchase advertising network. With installations in many UK Post Offices, private hospitals and leisure facilities, the company helps up to 18,000 local businesses advertise on highly visible digital screens in a range of busy locations. After a SAN corruption kept them out of business for four days, Multimedia International Services knew they needed to eliminate the single points of failure within their IT infrastructure. After trying to do this unsuccessfully for seven months with a competitor’s product, they selected Double-Take Software and successfully implemented in a day and a half. They now protect Exchange, database, web, reporting, content management, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) with Double-Take. |
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Brookfield Asset Management
Remote failover with strict RPO and RTO objectives: Implementing Double-Take has allowed Brookfield to streamline their disaster recovery and business continuity exercises. Double-Take dramatically reduces the effort involved in recovering if an outage should occur and has given the team confidence that they will be able to minimize downtime and application interruption if something should happen. “Double-Take was able to meet our strict RTO and RPO objectives at a very low cost,” said Stephane Deschenes, Director of IS at Brookfield. Read the full case study today. |
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McVey & Murricane
Business Continuity: With a varied and increasing workload, further complicated by compliance obligations placed on the firm by its work with larger ‘corporate’ clients, McVey & Murricane (M&M) recognized the need for a more resilient IT infrastructure. M&M selected Xpedient Business Solutions as its preferred consultant and worked with them to develop and implement an innovative and cost-effective solution centered around Double-Take. |
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KPMG
Centralized Backup: With 11 sites set out among the major French cities, KPMG Audit, the leading French auditing firm, had to deal with a time-consuming and tedious backup process. Today, a centralized backup solution powered by Double-Take allows for a smaller number of servers making the backups easier to manage. Double-Take also provides a more reliable recovery process. |
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Charter Institute of Bankers in Scotland
Disaster Recovery: As more organizations rely on IT systems to support vital business processes and maintain essential data, the quality of services delivered to customers, members or shareholders can only ever be as good as the overarching infrastructure used to support the business process itself. Double-Take is now used between their two Scottish offices to support their disaster recovery plan. |
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Newfoundland Power
Sharepoint, SQL, and Exchange Protection: Newfoundland Power relies 24x7 on file and print services, Exchange Server, their corporate website, Microsoft SharePoint and a host of other Oracle and SQL Server based applications. As such, sound business continuity and disaster recovery plans are an integral part of their overall data protection strategy. Read the case study to learn why they chose Double-Take Software to streamline their disaster recovery and business continuity exercises. |
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Delaware Department of Education
Disaster Recovery: Ron Miller of eWeek wrote this case study titled "Recovery System Gets High Marks" after speaking to Bob Czeizinger at the Delaware Department of Education about Double-Take Software. After experiencing a catastrophic database server failure several years ago, Cziezinger looked to Double-Take to keep his systems running, regardless of hardware of software issues. |
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Mack Energy
Real-Time Data Protection: Even though continuous access to data is not an absolute necessity at Mack Energy, the company realizes the importance of protecting its data and having a backup plan in place should a disaster strike. Mack Energy has IBM ~®xSeries® 346, xSeries 360 and xSeries 230 servers running Microsoft® Exchange and SQL in addition to data file storage. It was a natural extension for Mack Energy to turn to IBM to solve their SAN needs for disaster recovery. After consulting with IBM and receiving a recommendation of Double-Take Software®, Mack Energy determined they had found the right solution for the real-time replication of its data. |
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Suffolk University
24x7 Access and High Availability: When Suffolk University made the strategic decision to establish a new online learning presence, data protection and application availability became essential. With thousands of students using their new, online services model each day, a system failure that prohibited access to online data and services would stifle the education of thousands of students from around the globe. To meet their needs, Suffolk selected Double-Take®. |
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Tribune
Exchange Protection: Tribune is a major source of news throughout the country. Its main business is information, which makes internal messaging an important piece of day-to-day operations. To make its messaging system easier to manage, the company decided to migrate all of its 22,000 users to Microsoft Exchange 2003. After migrating, an outage of any kind would affect a lot of people. Not only would the 22,000 users at Tribune potentially loose email, but it could also affect the loyal viewers and readership that depend upon Tribune as a source for up-to-the-minute news. Tribune sought distance-based protection through its IT integrator and through Dell. Both recommended Double-Take®. |
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Arapahoe House
Arapahoe House is Colorado’s largest nonprofit, community-based rehabilitation and detoxification center. They required a cost-effective solution to help streamline their operations, meet new HIPAA regulations, and keep their business highly available. |
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City of Airdrie
Working with a DR consultant, the City of Airdrie looked at several DR products to meet their needs. One of the key requirements was real-time data replication and failover for remote availability. Once they evaluated the Double-Take® Software suite of products, it was an easy decision for the DR team. "Double-Take was a great fit for our organization because it provided all of the required capabilities for remote availability in one product," said Paul Hurst, Network Administrator, City of Airdrie. "Due to its flexibility, real-time data replication, and automatic failover, Double-Take was the solution of choice to complement our backup and restore strategy." |
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Fuzhou Education Bureau, China
The Fuzhou Education Bureau Middle School Recruit Office has deployed Double-Take for Windows along with Double-Take Server Recovery Option (SRO) for two-to-one replication, failover and high availability. |
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Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
After speaking with many vendors including SteelEye, Comdisco, and Veritas, Shorenstein Company LLC made the decision to install Double Take. |
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Standard Bank (Banco Standard de Investimentos SA)
Standard Bank was looking for a reliable data replication and high availability solution for their Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers. |
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Carlsberg Group
Carlsberg's Leeds operation is one of the company's two major breweries in the UK. With supplies of 'probably the best lager in the world' at stake, Carlsberg couldn't afford to leave their business continuity plans to chance. By implementing the Double-Take solution at their Leeds brewery, Carlsberg now has total confidence that their brewing processes will not be interrupted by IT failures, which in turn delivers assurance of continuity of supply to retailers and the nation’s beer drinkers. | |
Accessor Capital Management LP
Accessor Capital Management LP wanted a disaster recovery plan that would enable them
to recapture data and resume operation without hesitation in case its primary data center
became unavailable. They had one overarching criteria: they needed a backup of their data in
a different geographic location for maximum protection and data had to be protected off-site
automatically, continuously and nearly immediately. | |
Apparel Group Australia
Apparel Group uses application servers across its operations. It relies on this network
backbone to facilitate communications, tasks, and business needs. In addition to its
manufacturing management, these servers assist in tracking inventory levels and meeting
changing retail demands. These servers are critical to the business and require a high level of
up time to meet stringent business objectives mainly, a low recovery point objective (RPO) and
recovery time objective (RTO). | |
Baker & McKenzie
Baker & McKenzie is one of the largest law firms in the world and offers a great breadth of
legal services – from dispute resolution to antitrust and trade law. Baker & McKenzie’s IT
management team recognized a significant need to further safeguard the firm’s business
assets and clients from unforeseen events, whether it was from a sudden emergency or a
simple server failure. The firm recognized that
unnecessary downtime, lost data and inaccessible applications could seriously affect their
business. | |
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. is a law firm that focuses on intellectual property law, including patent,
trademark, copyright, trade secret, computer, franchise and unfair competition law. Banner & Witcoff needed a new solution that would continuously back-up data for quick restoration and one that would enable systems failover, so attorneys would be functioning
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Caitong Securities Co., Ltd.
With a sizable volume of customer capital under supervision, Caitong Securities grew
concerned over their level of sustainable operational continuity and resiliency. If a serious
collapse of their IT infrastructure occurred, Caitong Securities’ production process would grind
to a halt and result in a marked loss to the funds under their management. | |
Hammond Care
Hammond Care Group’s operational spread across New South Wales presented business
continuity, disaster recovery, security and bandwidth issues for the organization’s IT
department. It was IT’s responsibility to make sure that critical applications and other systems
remained available for the administration and managerial staff, that rely on these systems to
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Kenso
Kenso is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of agrochemicals and fertilizers. Kenso’s
products are widely used in plantations, smallholders and farms throughout Asia. Kenso relies heavily on business-critical systems such as their Exchange and Oracle Servers to improve its general business capabilities, customer services, and generate higher profits. Embracing the
importance of application availability, Kenso set out to greatly improve the resiliency of it’s IT
infrastructure so that it would exceed industry standards. | |
Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad
For Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad, it is no longer possible to conduct business without
constant access to key applications, such as their software systems and files etc. To provide
business continuity and minimization of business interruptions in the event of a disaster,
having a reliable and proven technology in data replication is crucial for MDV to achieve
its objective. | |
Hatch Australia
Hatch was faced with a couple serious challenges due to the nature of their
business and reliance on technology. Management reckoned that large losses in productivity
would occur if their vast and highly distributed work force could not access, or be directed by
one of several business-critical software applications. Greater system resiliency and continuity
thus was deemed a high priority. | |
Orstead, Australia
Orstead had identified business opportunities in the 20 to 400 user market particularly in
financial services. This market sector demands robust data recovery solutions so Orstead set
out to provide these and other clients with solutions over a WAN link that also enabled it to
add additional users and provide a value-added service. | |
Wuxi Public Security Bureau, China
Wuxi Public Security Bureau has six major divisions that all require 24x7 business continuity to
protect the public. A minor system failure could cripple their operations. The infrastructure team within the Wuxi Public Security Bureau recognized the need solid business continuity plan to maintain the ongoing functions of their numerous divisions. | |
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