Case Study: Serengeti Asset Management achieves rapid, near-real-time disaster recovery with Dell EMC

Serengeti Asset Management - Customer Case Study

Serengeti Asset Management, a New York–based multi-strategy hedge fund with 40 employees and $1.5 billion in assets under management, needed better recovery-time and recovery-point objectives and near‑realtime replication after its SAN-to‑SAN replication left Exchange snapshots minutes behind production. To address this, the firm worked with Dell EMC to migrate to a 100% virtualized infrastructure using VMware vSphere and Dell EMC technologies including RecoverPoint and VNX unified storage.

Dell EMC implemented RecoverPoint continuous, block-level replication with VNX storage in a virtualized environment, giving Serengeti DVR‑like multiple recovery points and the ability to restore to any point in time. The result: Exchange snapshots in seconds, the entire environment failed over to the DR site and was back online in a little more than two hours during Superstorm Sandy, a two‑hour failback later, faster recovery than many peers (some took up to 36 hours), and reduced OPEX through virtualization—demonstrating measurable business continuity and competitive advantage provided by Dell EMC.

Serengeti Asset Management

Jeffrey Miller

Chief Technology Officer