Case Study: Mid-sized Canadian City strengthens disaster recovery planning with OnX Enterprise Solutions

OnX Guides Canadian City in Disaster Recovery Planning to Keep City Running in an Emergency

A mid-sized Canadian city in the government sector needed help strengthening its backup and disaster recovery strategy so it could restore critical IT services quickly during an emergency. The city faced interdependent systems, uncertainty around its VMware-based DR environment, unclear recovery goals, and concerns that its original three-day recovery estimate was actually closer to three weeks. OnX Enterprise Solutions was brought in to assess the city’s disaster recovery readiness.

OnX Enterprise Solutions delivered a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Assessment focused on recovery objectives, tiered priorities, mirrored interdependencies, and budget alignment. The result was a three-tier recovery strategy: Tier 1 with full data replication and a four-hour RTO, Tier 2 with backup and 24-hour recovery, and Tier 3 for archiving old data. OnX also identified risky SAN hardware incompatibilities, helping the city better protect its highest-priority systems and reduce recovery risk in a crisis.