Case Study: East Thames achieves minutes-level disaster recovery and audit-ready resilience with 11:11 Systems

East Thames - Customer Case Study

East Thames, a major government housing association managing nearly 15,000 homes across east London and Essex, adopted a cloud‑first policy to modernize services and reduce legacy constraints. Their incumbent disaster recovery (DR) setup was untested, expensive and unable to demonstrate reliable recovery for audit and business continuity requirements, so the IT team needed a solution that could prove timely, safe and secure recovery without large capital outlay.

East Thames implemented iland DRaaS with Zerto to replicate virtualized applications at the hypervisor level and run on‑demand tests and automated failovers via a self‑service console. The move cut recovery times from days or weeks to minutes, enabled frequent, auditor‑friendly testing, provided cost‑effective reserved compute for burst capacity, and met security and data‑sovereignty needs — giving the organisation confidence to expand cloud use.

East Thames

Paul Clark

Head of Service Operations