Case Study: Edward Don & Company achieves resilient 24/7 online operations and realistic failover testing with Symmetry's Cloud DR solution

Symmetry’s Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Solution for Edward Don Improves Overall Business Operations

Edward Don & Company, the nation’s largest distributor of food service equipment, depended on a 24x7x365 web ordering system that generated millions in daily revenue but was protected by an under-powered disaster recovery setup that couldn’t support SAP failover testing. Seeking a partner with SAP expertise, Edward Don engaged Symmetry (an IBM Advanced Business Partner) to provide a cloud-based HA/disaster recovery and managed services solution.

Symmetry deployed a scalable cloud DR environment and assumed full management in roughly two weeks, enabling realistic failover and high-availability testing, improving system performance for testing, and removing the day-to-day infrastructure burden from Edward Don’s staff. As a result, Edward Don achieved the required continuous online availability, reclaimed internal resources for strategic projects, and gained measurable operational confidence—most notably the ability to perform realistic failover tests that were impossible with the prior provider.

Edward Don & Company

George Barwacz

Operations Manager