Case Study: S.H. Smith & Company achieves minutes-to-failover disaster recovery with Vision Solutions' Double-Take Availability

S.H. Smith & Company - Customer Case Study

S.H. Smith & Company, a Hartford-based specialty insurance broker and one of the largest independently owned firms in the Northeast, needed reliable 24/7 access to critical systems but lacked a solid disaster recovery plan. With potential outages threatening revenue and client relationships, the company engaged a new IT manager to find a low-risk, high-return solution that would work with their existing HP SAN and VMware environment.

They implemented Vision Solutions’ Double-Take Availability with minimal changes to production, protecting three Exchange servers, one SQL server and a main file server in a one-to-many configuration on VMware GSX. Continuous byte-level replication (throttled over a bonded T1 for the remote site) enables server failover in minutes with no data loss, reduced downtime from days to minutes, easier testing, and measurable infrastructure and operational savings.

S.H. Smith & Company