Case Study: Nodak Mutual Insurance Company achieves rapid disaster recovery and peace of mind with Vision Solutions' iTERA Availability

Nodak Mutual Insurance Company - Customer Case Study

Nodak Mutual Insurance Company, a Fargo-based insurer with about 125 employees offering life, home, auto, farm, crop and business insurance, faced an unacceptable disaster-recovery risk: a tape-based backup process and third-party recovery site that could take days to restore operations and allowed only a single 24-hour contiguous annual test. The company needed a cost-effective, reliable way to ensure business continuity and reduce recovery time to avoid disruptive, costly downtime.

Nodak implemented Vision Solutions’ iTERA Availability to replicate IBM i production data in real time to a Nodak-owned hot-standby Power Systems server at an offsite facility, enabling rapid failover and non-disruptive “virtual roll swap” testing. The solution gave Nodak faster, easily managed recovery, better system visibility, regular testability, and — most importantly — peace of mind that operations are protected from significant downtime.

Nodak Mutual Insurance Company