Case Study: Scan Alarms & Security Systems (UK) Ltd. achieves real-time high availability and uninterrupted service with Vision Solutions' Double-Take Availability

Scan Alarms & Security Systems (UK) Ltd. - Customer Case Study

Scan Alarms & Security Systems, a Northern Ireland electronic security firm founded in 1980 with 40 employees, had become heavily reliant on IT after deploying wireless PDAs for field technicians. Critical customer records and operations sat on a single RAID‑5 server, and successive hardware failures — including a RAID controller fault that left the server unrecoverable for days — exposed the company to unacceptable downtime risk.

With implementation support from Adson Group, Scan Alarms deployed two new on‑premises servers running Vision Solutions’ Double‑Take Availability. The solution, installed in three days, replicates production data in real time to a local backup server, passed multiple forced‑failover tests with no data loss, and now provides uninterrupted access to customer records and confidence in meeting service commitments.

Scan Alarms & Security Systems (UK) Ltd.