Case Study: Drew’s Entertainment achieves disaster-resilient, lower-cost communications and simplified relocation with MegaPath

Drew’s Entertainment - Customer Case Study

Drew’s Entertainment, a music compilation company with more than 50 million albums sold, faced a major IT challenge: a planned fall 2012 relocation and an outdated PBX-based phone system were made urgent when Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 flooded their 40,000-square-foot Edison, NJ facility, destroying servers and hardware. To lower total cost of ownership, improve functionality and ensure business continuity, Drew’s engaged MegaPath and moved toward cloud-hosted services including MegaPath Hosted Voice, Hosted Microsoft Exchange and MegaPath Enterprise Cloud.

MegaPath implemented Hosted Voice, Hosted Microsoft Exchange and Enterprise Cloud to migrate phone, email and infrastructure off-site, delivering built-in redundancy and faster recovery. The deployment simplified the move (only broadband, IP phones and a voice gateway required), eliminated large upfront hardware purchases, increased mailbox storage from 10 GB to 25 GB, reduced physical servers from six to three, and provided 100% backup/redundancy along with remote-calling features like Find Me/Follow Me—lowering costs and keeping operations running under MegaPath’s managed monthly service.

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