Case Study: APL Limited achieves virtually zero downtime and 100% successful DR tests with Vision Solutions' MIMIX Availability

APL Limited - Customer Case Study

APL Limited, a global transportation and logistics provider operating 24/7 across 140 countries, needed to guarantee extremely high availability for its IBM Power Systems–based core applications — no more than four hours of downtime per month. Routine maintenance, backups and OS upgrades risked lengthy outages that could disrupt worldwide operations, so APL sought a solution that protected data and minimized both planned and unplanned downtime.

APL deployed Vision Solutions’ MIMIX Availability to maintain a near‑real‑time replica on a secondary Power Systems server. The replica lets APL switch users quickly (10 minutes in one hardware-failure incident), run backups without impacting production, and keep maintenance windows under four hours. Five disaster-recovery tests were 100% successful, downtime was virtually eliminated, and an upgrade to MIMIX Availability 7 plus plans for a remote hot‑standby promise even faster failover and reduced reliance on tape backups.

APL Limited