Case Study: Nicholas & Company achieves 24/7 uptime and eliminates backup window with Precisely's Assure iTERA HA

Nicholas & Company used Assure iTERA HA to move to new hardware via role-swap

Nicholas & Company, a Salt Lake City–based broadline foodservice distributor, needed high availability for its IBM System i–based warehouse management and sales applications to guarantee on-time delivery and continuous 24/7 operations. To protect its technology investments and support plans to bring website, email and VoIP in-house, the company sought a solution to eliminate downtime and the overnight backup window; they selected Assure iTERA HA from Precisely.

Precisely implemented Assure iTERA HA while Nicholas & Company upgraded to new IBM System i 525 hardware and i5/OS V5R4; the team performed fast role-swaps to migrate systems with no interruption. The deployment eliminated the roughly six-hour weekly backup/IPL window, delivered continuous uptime, enabled five-minute switchover capability, provided a safe test environment on the backup server, and established a proven foundation for future disaster recovery.

Nicholas & Company

Russell Erickson

System Administrator