Case Study: Viskase achieves rapid disaster recovery and 50% cost savings with Amazon Web Services

Viskase - Customer Case Study

Viskase, an 85‑year‑old Chicago‑based supplier of cellulose, fibrous, and plastic casings with about $300M in annual revenue and 1,300 employees across North America, South America, Europe and Asia, needed a modern disaster recovery strategy for its SAP environment. The company relied on traditional off‑site tape backups and sought a lower‑cost, separate‑location solution that could replicate production systems, reduce downtime, and accelerate ramp‑up after a major datacenter failure.

Working with Protera Technologies, Viskase implemented a synchronized disaster recovery environment on AWS using Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon VPC, and secure VPN connectivity, provisioning additional EC2 instances for testing as needed. The move cut restore time from two days to under an hour, delivered near‑100% uptime for its SAP instance, yielded an anticipated 50% cost savings versus tape, and saved about 20 days of labor annually; Viskase is expanding the solution across regions and evaluating AWS for other systems.

Viskase

Debbie Ryzner

IT Manager