Case Study: Equifax achieves 40 hours of annual file server availability gains with Microsoft Corporation Windows Server 2012

Financial Services Firm Improves File Server Availability by 40 Hours a Year

Equifax, the financial services firm, needed to reduce server downtime and maintenance effort so its IT team could keep customer services highly available and spend more time on new product development. Microsoft Corporation’s Windows Server 2012 was the product used to address the challenge, especially around file server cluster updates and failover.

Microsoft Corporation implemented Windows Server 2012 Datacenter with transparent failover, Hyper-V, and SMB3 testing across Equifax’s development, QA, and production clusters. The result was up to 40 hours of planned and unplanned file server downtime eliminated each year, along with an expected 20–30% reduction in new server deployments and improved work-life balance for IT staff.

Equifax

Bryan Garcia

Chief Technology Officer