Case Study: Pittsburg State University achieves improved disaster recovery with Total Uptime

Public university meets Disaster Recovery requirements for their distributed authentication infrastructure.

Pittsburg State University, a public university in Kansas, needed to meet disaster recovery requirements for its IT infrastructure due to its location in tornado alley. The primary challenge was ensuring their Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) authentication remained available if their main campus suffered a catastrophic outage. They contacted Total Uptime for a solution to make this critical system robust and survivable.

Total Uptime implemented a cloud failover and load balancing solution. This involved deploying a redundant ADFS server at a sister university and using Total Uptime's global cloud platform to create a geographically distributed authentication infrastructure. The result was a dramatically improved disaster recovery posture, allowing the university to process authentication requests even if the entire main campus is offline.

Pittsburg State University

Timothy Pearson

Assistant Director, Information Technology Services