Case Study: Goodwill Southern CA achieves reliable, always-in-sync, easily tested disaster recovery with Bluelock Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana Chooses an Easily Tested Disaster Recovery Solution That Stays in Sync with Production

Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana, a $100M+ organization with 3,100 employees and over 50 stores, faced a costly, fragile disaster recovery setup: after spending nearly $250,000 on a traditional DR environment, the recovery systems quickly fell out of sync with production, required months of test preparation after staff changes, and diverted IT resources from core business initiatives.

They adopted Bluelock’s Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service paired with tw telecom’s Intelligent Network for dynamic bandwidth, enabling continuous replication, rapid seeding (one week versus months), and pay-as-you-go pricing with easy, encouraged testing. As a result they expanded DR coverage eightfold while only roughly doubling monthly costs, removed network bottlenecks, reduced manual upkeep, and regained confidence that their recovery plan will work when needed.

Goodwill Southern CA

Jeff Ton

Indiana SVP of Corporate Connectivity and CIO, Goodwill Industries of Central