Case Study: Dupré Logistics achieves near‑zero downtime and seamless 24/7 availability with Vision Solutions' iTERA Availability

Dupré Logistics - Customer Case Study

Dupré Logistics, a Lafayette, Louisiana–based logistics firm with about $140M in revenue, ~400 trucks and nearly 800 drivers, operates 24/7 across the continental U.S. Critical business applications run on IBM i Power Systems and protect roughly 1 TB of data, but planned maintenance and the threat of hurricanes meant backups and offsite recovery weren't fast enough to guarantee continuous service. The company needed to virtually eliminate both planned and unplanned downtime so customers would never experience interruptions.

In 2006 Dupré deployed Vision Solutions’ iTERA Availability to maintain a real‑time replica of production on an identical server 500 miles away in Atlanta. The solution enables quick “role swaps” (a recent Power6→Power7 upgrade swap took 22 minutes), automatic resynchronization, minimal daily administration (5–15 minute audits), and strong vendor support. As a result, Dupré minimized planned downtime, gained insurance against disasters, kept customers unaware of changes, and focused IT efforts on data‑center protection best practices.

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