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Case Studies
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Agriculture/Agribusiness
MIMIX HA
Automotive
iTERA HA,
MIMIX HA, OMS/ODS
Construction and Heavy Equipment
Replicate1, iTERA HA
Education
EchoStream for AIX, iTera HA
Finance, Securities and Banking
iTERA HA, MIMIX HA, OMS/ODS,
EchoStream for AIX, Vision EchoCluster
Government
MIMIX HA,
Replicate1,
EchoStream for AIX/EchoCluster for AIX
Health & Pharmaceuticals
iTERA HA, MIMIX HA,
OMS/ODS, Migrate
While Active,
Replicate1,
EchoStream for AIX, Vision Data Manager
Insurance
Vision Director
Manufacturing
iTERA HA, MIMIX HA,
Data Manager
Media, Entertainment and Gaming
iTERA HA, MIMIX HA
Perishable Goods and Grocery
iTERA HA, MIMIX HA, OMS/ODS, Double-Take, EchoStream for AIX,
EchoCluster for AIX
Retail
iTERA HA, MIMIX HA
Transport and Logistics
iTERA HA, MIMIX HA, OMS/ODS, EchoStream for AIX, Migrate While Active
Utilities
iTERA HA,
OMS/ODS, Vision Director, Echostream 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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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): replicate1, iTERA HA |
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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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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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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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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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Product(s):
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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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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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Robein Bank
Experiencing a steady business growth over the past years, and expecting continued expansion
in the years ahead, Robein Bank set out in the summer of 2007 to fundamentally
upgrade its ICT infrastructure. The main objectives were to continue to ensure world-class
Private Banking service to its current customers and to offer wealth management services to
a growing number of new clients. |
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Product(s): Vision EchoCluster |
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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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Product(s): Vision Director | | Watch Video |
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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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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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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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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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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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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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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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Product(s): iTERA 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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Product(s): EchoStream for AIX, EchoCluster for AIX |
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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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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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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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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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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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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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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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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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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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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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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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Product(s): OMS/ODS |
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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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Product(s): OMS/ODS |
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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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Product(s): Double-Take |
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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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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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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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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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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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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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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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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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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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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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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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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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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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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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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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Product(s): MIMIX HA |
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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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Product(s): OMS/ODS |
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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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Product(s): EchoStream for AIX |
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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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Product(s): Migrate While Active |
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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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Product(s): EchoStream for AIX, OMS/ODS |
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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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Product(s): iTERA HA |
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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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Product(s): OMS/ODS, Vision Director |
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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. |
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