Case Study: International Capital & Management Company (ICMC) achieves bandwidth-efficient high availability and disaster recovery with Vision Solutions' Double-Take Availability

International Capital & Management Company (ICMC) - Customer Case Study

International Capital & Management Company (ICMC), a merchant banking firm headquartered in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, faced a critical high-availability and disaster-recovery challenge: protecting 12 TB of production data and ensuring rapid failover with minimal day-to-day administration. Replication to an offsite backup was the clear choice, but high bandwidth costs in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the need for a hardware-agnostic solution made standard approaches impractical.

With Thillet Data Systems’ recommendation, ICMC deployed Double-Take Availability to replicate data in real time between its HP Hyper-V production servers and Dell backup servers hosted by Hosting.com. The solution transmits only changed bytes, uses advanced compression, and can throttle and queue transfers during busy periods, keeping bandwidth use low while maintaining synchronization. The result: reliable business continuity and peace of mind, protection of 12 TB with minimal administration, and cross-platform replication between differing hardware.

International Capital & Management Company (ICMC)