Case Study: First National Bank Hermitage, Pennsylvania achieves 10-minute email recovery and fast archive access with OpenText GroupWise Disaster Recovery

Micro Focus® GroupWise® Disaster Recovery came to the rescue when this bank’s air conditioner broke, causing the email server to shut down

First National Bank in Hermitage, PA, a financial services firm with about 2,500 employees, relies on email as a primary communication tool. When an air-conditioning failure in a server room caused servers to shut down and a premature restart corrupted the email database, the bank faced a potentially major disruption to employee productivity and customer service.

The IT team failed over to Micro Focus GroupWise Disaster Recovery and restored email service in about 10 minutes; the subsequent pre-migration and switch back to the primary server were seamless. Replacing slow tape-based restores that could take days, GroupWise Disaster Recovery now lets staff access archived mail in minutes, has become a day-to-day tool rather than just an emergency backup, and has reduced the burden on IT.

First National Bank Hermitage, Pennsylvania

Christina Pedas

Sr. Network Engineer