Case Study: Connect Computers achieves seamless business continuity and rapid recovery with Datto SIRIS

Junior Achievement of New York Steps Taken to Avoid Data Loss and Ensure Continuity

Junior Achievement of New York (JANY), a not‑for‑profit serving tens of thousands of students, relied on MSP Connect Computer for IT. After Connect recommended moving from unreliable tape backups to Datto SIRIS, a planned power outage and subsequent hardware/RAID corruption caused seven virtual machines to fail, threatening student data, daily operations and future donations.

Because SIRIS had been implemented and disaster recovery tested, Connect brought critical VMs (domain controller, Exchange, donor database) up locally on the appliance within about two hours, kept roughly 40 users working, rebuilt the physical server in 24 hours and exported systems back with no staff impact. The rapid failover maintained business continuity, avoided days of downtime and potential reputational loss, and the solution paid for itself.

Connect Computers

Lynn M. Souza

President