Case Study: The Miller Group achieves rapid, reliable web-server disaster recovery with NetIQ PlateSpin Forge

The Miller Group - Customer Case Study

The Miller Group, the U.K.’s largest privately owned housebuilder and urban developer, needed a faster, more reliable disaster-recovery approach to protect its high‑visibility web servers. Their previous process—shipping backup servers and manually restoring systems—could take days, risking reputational damage and lost sales, so the IT team sought a cost‑effective, easy‑to‑manage solution that delivered rapid recovery.

They deployed PlateSpin Forge appliances—preconfigured replication and virtualization units—to shadow production servers and provide bootable virtual recovery environments, implemented within days. Two appliances now protect 10 physical servers (hosted offsite), enable hourly virtual snapshots and minutes‑to‑recover in tests, and have given the business confidence and operational resilience to focus on core activities while planning further expansion.

The Miller Group

Michael Leggiero

Enterprise Technology Manager