Case Study: Nesco Resource achieves zero downtime during Hurricane Irma with Fortra's Robot HA

Robot HA Keeps Nesco Resource Out of Harm’s Way

Nesco Resource, a Cleveland-based staffing and employment agency with 100+ branches and about 60,000 people on its payroll annually, faced a critical risk when Hurricane Irma threatened its Tampa data center just five miles from the shore. With weekly and biweekly payrolls, the IT team could not tolerate downtime and needed a fast, reliable way to protect business-critical systems.

Nesco used HelpSystems’ Robot HA and a secondary site in Winter Haven to perform a preemptive full server role swap during Irma, with HelpSystems’ support managing the cutover. The move kept operations running through a two-day Tampa power outage, prevented downtime, refined disaster procedures, and established a seasonal operating model that supports continued company growth.

Nesco Resource

Gerald Dalton

IT Director