Case Study: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. achieves seamless disaster recovery and 30-second failovers with Vision Solutions' Double-Take Availability

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd - Customer Case Study

Banner & Witcoff, a Chicago-based intellectual property law firm with more than 90 attorneys and offices in multiple U.S. cities, faced an inadequate tape-based backup process that left up to 24 hours of unprotected data, slow restorations, and no protection for critical applications across 80+ servers. The firm needed continuous replication and fast system failover to ensure 24x7 client service and minimize downtime.

Banner & Witcoff deployed Double-Take Availability to replicate data and applications to a secure Oak Brook co‑location over existing VPN links, cutting deployment time and avoiding expensive new circuits. The solution delivered byte-level replication with minimal production impact, enabled 30-second failovers in tests, eliminated data loss, preserved application availability, and provided cost savings and greater operational confidence.

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd