Case Study: Ply Gem achieves uninterrupted 24x7 operations and real-time disaster recovery with Vision Solutions

Ply Gem - Customer Case Study

Ply Gem Industries, a leading North American manufacturer of residential exterior building products, operates 24x7 and relies on IBM i-based JD Edwards OneWorld ERP. Nightly backups took three to four hours and forced application shutdowns that stopped order processing, shipping and invoicing, while also risking loss of the day’s transactions and lengthy recovery from tape restores.

Ply Gem deployed Vision Solutions’ MIMIX Availability with implementation and colocation by ProActive Solutions, maintaining a real-time replica on a secondary IBM i Power server offsite. Backups now run on the replica so production stays online, failover tests have been successful, and the company eliminated backup-related downtime, gained a real-time disaster‑recovery option, reduced errors and achieved greater business continuity and peace of mind.

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