Case Study: First Winthrop achieves modern, near-real-time disaster recovery with Hostway's Hyper-V DR solution

First Winthrop - Customer Case Study

First Winthrop is a 30+-year property management and real estate firm managing 40 properties nationwide with 400 employees and a three-person IT team. Their disaster recovery relied on an aging, locally hosted VMware ESX 3.5 colocation center only 40 miles from their Boston office and weekly off-site backups—leaving them exposed to correlated regional outages and out-of-date hardware nearing end-of-life.

They migrated to Hostway’s Hyper-V replication solution hosted in Hostway’s Texas data center, shifting hardware maintenance to the provider and enabling near-real-time replicas instead of weekly backups. The change improved geographic separation, eliminated on-site maintenance burdens, and gave the team a modern, “rock-solid” DR capability that provides current save points and greater peace of mind, even though it has not yet been needed in a live recovery.

First Winthrop

Ed Volmar

Senior systems engineer