Case Study: IMA Financial Group, Inc. achieves near-real-time disaster recovery and peace of mind with Vision Solutions' Double-Take RecoverNow

IMA Financial Group, Inc. - Customer Case Study

IMA Financial Group, a 500-employee, employee-owned insurance and financial services firm based in Wichita, Kansas, needed an affordable disaster recovery solution to protect its core Sagitta agency management application and all transactional data — including changes made after nightly backups — from tornadoes and other disasters. Losing access to critical data or applications for an extended period was unacceptable, so the company sought rapid, reliable recovery with minimal disruption.

IMA deployed Vision Solutions’ Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX, which uses real-time replication and continuous data protection to mirror the production environment to a backup server (reusing the company’s older IBM pSeries hardware). Vision completed remote installation in two short sessions (about four hours), the backup was relocated to Denver, and failover tests showed recovery in roughly a minute. The result is automatic protection of all data, fast recovery when needed, simpler operations (with the option to retire tape backups) and greater peace of mind.

IMA Financial Group, Inc.