Case Study: Human Rights Watch achieves high availability for Exchange 2010 with F5 Networks BIG‑IP solutions

Human Rights Watch Ensures High Availability for Exchange 2010 with F5

Human Rights Watch, a global nonprofit, needed to ensure high availability, security, and bandwidth efficiency when upgrading its email infrastructure to Microsoft Exchange 2010. To support clustering, Database Availability Group (DAG) replication across data centers and remote offices, the organization selected F5 Networks and its BIG‑IP LTM, BIG‑IP GTM and BIG‑IP WOM solutions for application delivery, global traffic management and WAN optimization.

F5 Networks implemented four BIG‑IP LTM devices, two BIG‑IP GTM devices and BIG‑IP WOM (deployed by F5 Professional Services) to provide load balancing, disaster‑aware routing and WAN compression/deduplication. The result was seamless Exchange availability across data centers, DAG replication time reduced from as much as 24 hours to under an hour, a five‑day deployment with no business disruption, lower WAN traffic via Symmetric Adaptive Compression and Deduplication, and improved security and bandwidth utilization—delivering measurable operational and cost benefits.

Human Rights Watch

Walid Ayoub

Director, Global IT Services (CITO)