Case Study: ABC Fine Wine & Spirits achieves near-zero downtime and rapid disaster recovery with Vision Solutions' iTERA HA for i5/OS

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits - Customer Case Study

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, a 154‑store retail beverage chain based in Orlando with 24/7 retail, warehouse and delivery operations, relied on a single IBM System i 550 to run core systems (supply chain, financials, POS, ecommerce and more). After the damaging 2005 hurricane season, management feared prolonged outages from a single-site failure and wanted a more reliable, controllable high‑availability solution than tape-based disaster recovery.

ABC deployed Vision Solutions’ iTERA HA for i5/OS with an IBM i520 backup in a separate building on a different power grid, linked by a 1Gb fiber channel and using remote journaling. Replication is effectively real‑time (no perceptible latency, up to 6–7 million transactions/hour), monthly rollovers incur at most five minutes of downtime, users see no performance drop on failover testing, and overall system vulnerability has been greatly reduced.

ABC Fine Wine & Spirits