Case Study: PennEngineering achieves dramatic maintenance window reduction (8 hrs → 1.5 hrs) and continuous data protection with Vision Solutions' iTERA Availability

PennEngineering - Customer Case Study

PennEngineering, a Pennsylvania‑based maker of fasteners with 24/7 operations across North America, Europe and Asia, faced shrinking maintenance windows as international shifts and added U.S. shifts limited times when systems could be down. Centralized systems and reliance on nightly tape backups meant weekly maintenance could take up to eight hours and disaster recovery from tape was too slow, so the company needed a way to cut downtime and ensure continuous data protection.

PennEngineering deployed iTERA Availability to replicate JD Edwards transactional data in real time to a remote backup server, allowing backups to be run on the secondary system and enabling rapid failover. The solution reduced the weekly maintenance window from eight hours to 1.5 hours, protected data entered during the day, ensured business continuity in case of disaster, and lowered operational costs and risk.

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