Case Study: MerSETA achieves reliable data protection and rapid disaster recovery with Vision Solutions' Double-Take Availability

MerSETA - Customer Case Study

MerSETA, the Johannesburg-based Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority, oversees skills development and grant management for roughly 600,000 workers across South Africa’s automotive and plastics industries. Facing administrative headaches and long recovery times from tape-based backups—exacerbated by Outlook PST issues and a constrained 768 kbps link to a remote site—merSETA needed a disaster-recovery approach that supported mail archives, minimized bandwidth use, and improved restore speed.

Working with ATIO, merSETA implemented Vision Solutions’ Double-Take Availability, a byte-level replication solution deployed in a single day that replicates about 600 GB to the second site without requiring additional network lines or impacting daily traffic. The result: reliable protection of files and applications, near-instant failover to the remote server instead of multi-day restores, no data loss since deployment, and regular successful DR tests that preserve user productivity during incidents.

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