Case Study: Beaulieu Group achieves sub-30-minute failover and dramatic downtime reduction with Vision Solutions iTera HA for i5/OS

Beaulieu Group - Customer Case Study

The Beaulieu Group, a privately held carpet manufacturer based in Dalton, GA with about 8,300 employees and multiple manufacturing sites and retail channels, relied on an expensive hot‑site service that delivered only 2–3 day recovery times and RPOs up to 24 hours. A production iSeries failure that required a full tape reload and left the company offline for two days highlighted the need for a faster, internal high‑availability/disaster‑recovery solution.

Beaulieu deployed Vision Solutions’ iTera HA for i5/OS (and Reorganize While Active) to replicate to remote IBM System i servers and enable fast switchover. The implementation eliminated nearly 14 hours of monthly tape‑save downtime, reduced unplanned downtime to roughly 30 minutes, cut migration/consolidation downtime to 3.5 hours (versus ~36 hours previously), and delivered significant cost savings while supporting regular failover testing and a formal DR plan.

Beaulieu Group