Case Study: Richardson Communications achieves federal-mandate compliance and hybrid IT resilience with Flexential

Geo-diversity and expert guidance facilitate compliance and business productivity for federal bank

Flexential partnered with Richardson Communications and Consulting to help a Dallas-based federal bank meet an urgent federal mandate: establish an off-site, outsourced disaster recovery site within seven months. The bank operated two on-premises data centers only five miles apart, lacked geographic diversity, and needed a hybrid IT strategy that balanced a legacy ERP and sensitive data protection with Azure hyperscaling and future flexibility.

Flexential’s professional services migrated the bank into a hybrid environment using its Englewood data center, redundant power/connectivity, multi-layered security and ExpressRoute connections to Microsoft Azure, then planned a Phase Two move to its Plano facility. The result: mandate compliance, production and DR sites positioned ~800 miles apart for true geographic diversity, improved workload efficiency and a scalable, secure ecosystem that supports ongoing optimization and a strengthened long-term partnership.

Richardson Communications

Jaime Zarate

Chief Strategy Officer