Case Study: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP achieves strict RTOs with local and cloud failover using Acronis Disaster Recovery Service

Davis Wright Tremaine Mitigates the Threat of Disasters with Acronis

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, a national law firm with ~500 attorneys, faced critical availability risks for mission‑critical systems (Microsoft Exchange, Autonomy iManage, time and billing systems) and needed an off‑premise disaster‑recovery strategy—plus tight NetApp integration and a migration path to cloud. To meet strict Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs of 24 hours for Tier 1 and 72 hours for Tier 2) and protect ~100 TB of data, the firm selected Acronis and its Acronis Disaster Recovery Service.

Acronis deployed its Disaster Recovery Service across the Seattle primary data center and all remote/branch offices using Acronis Local Appliances for fast local failover, NetApp SnapMirror integration to Acronis’ Dallas facility, and cloud‑based full data‑center failover with Exchange DAG high availability. The solution lets DWT proactively test failovers, meet the required RTOs, rapidly spin up servers and mount disks, and deliver measurable benefits in data availability, management efficiency and cost savings.

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Matt Beland

Director of IT and Security