Case Study: Black Diamond Group achieves 5-minute disaster recovery and continuous email availability with Vision Solutions' Double-Take Availability

Black Diamond Group - Customer Case Study

Black Diamond Group, a Calgary-based provider of modular buildings and oilfield surface assets with operations across Canada, the U.S. and Australia, relied on five Windows servers managing more than 2 TB of critical data and email. Nightly backups left business‑critical data exposed and rebuilding servers after a failure could take hours, so the company needed real‑time replication and hot‑standby servers at a remote DR site to keep operations running during disasters.

Black Diamond implemented Double-Take Availability to replicate only changed data in real time to a DR centre 20 km away, maintaining ready‑to‑run backup servers. During Calgary’s June 2013 flood the company failed over to the DR site in about five minutes with no data loss, ran on backup servers for two days while primary systems were restored, and now enjoys minimized downtime, continuous email flow and virtually maintenance‑free protection.

Black Diamond Group