Case Study: Davis & Gilbert LLP achieves sub-5-minute failover and uninterrupted business continuity with Acronis Disaster Recovery

Davis & Gilbert Fails Over to Acronis Disaster Recovery in Five Minutes

Davis & Gilbert LLP, a full‑service New York City law firm, faced a critical outage when a routine Windows security update corrupted system files and left a server unbootable during scheduled maintenance. To maintain billable continuity for its more than 125 attorneys and 250+ users, the firm invoked Acronis’ disaster recovery solution, failing over to Acronis Disaster Recovery infrastructure (local and cloud options).

Acronis implemented failover to its on‑premises Acronis Disaster Recovery Local Cloud Appliances with replication to the Acronis Cloud, protecting over 21 TB across more than 20 servers. The entire recovery process took under 20 minutes, with the actual switchover completed in less than five minutes, no reported performance degradation or data loss, and Davis & Gilbert stayed within its four‑hour maintenance window—substantially reducing costly downtime.

Davis & Gilbert LLP

Michael Salvato

Chief Information Officer