Case Study: McWilliams Forge achieves near-zero downtime and no data loss with Vision Solutions' Double-Take Availability

McWilliams Forge - Customer Case Study

McWilliams Forge Company, a 130-employee aerospace forgings manufacturer in Rockaway, NJ, depended on tape backups for business continuity until a severe production server crash required a 40-hour rebuild. That outage showed tape-based recovery was too slow, costly, and risky—prompting the company to seek a reliable, cost-effective disaster recovery and 24x7 application-availability solution compatible with its clustered Windows/SQL/ERP environment.

Working with InfiNet/IT Resolution, McWilliams deployed Vision Solutions’ Double-Take Availability to replicate four primary production servers to an independent DR site 24/7. When a hardware failure hit before a planned test, Double-Take failed over within minutes with no data loss and full user access; the company since expanded protection to Exchange and payroll, dramatically reducing downtime and virtually eliminating data-loss risk.

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