Case Study: Dunlap and Kyle Company achieves 99%+ uptime and reliable disaster recovery with Expedient IaaS and DRaaS

Dunlap and Kyle Company maximizes the uptime and performance of its mission-critical applications with IaaS and DRaaS from Expedient

Dunlap and Kyle Company, Inc., a wholesale and retail tire dealer doing business as Gateway Tire & Service Center with 70 locations, faced vulnerability from a centralized RS/6000-based IT environment and needed a hardware and platform refresh to move to Microsoft Dynamics. After a TCO analysis ruled out building an on‑premises data center, CIO Stuart Hill selected Expedient to provide colocation, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and managed disaster recovery services to host the new Windows/SQL-based production environment and DR infrastructure.

Expedient migrated Dunlap and Kyle’s entire production environment to its fully managed IaaS, used a second Expedient site for replication and failover (leveraging VMware, DellEMC and Zerto), and implemented a dedicated circuit with a Meraki appliance for VPN failover to all 70 locations. The solution delivered uptime in excess of 99%, simplified disaster recovery with push‑button failover, avoided significant CAPEX and extra hiring, and gave Dunlap and Kyle the scalability and operational expertise to support growth.

Dunlap and Kyle Company

Stuart Hill

CIO