Case Study: Strategic Fulfillment Group achieves near-zero downtime and zero data loss with Vision Solutions' MIMIX Availability

Strategic Fulfillment Group - Customer Case Study

Strategic Fulfillment Group (SFG), a mid-sized order-fulfillment provider headquartered in Big Sandy, Texas, operates a complex IBM i environment with multiple Power Systems, seven logical partitions and a single relational database holding roughly 14 billion records plus extensive IFS use. In the fast-moving e-commerce market the company could not tolerate downtime or data loss—SFG needed near-zero downtime and zero data-loss protection across a large, high‑transaction environment.

In partnership with Vision Solutions, SFG migrated to MIMIX Availability with the MIMIX Global add-on to provide real-time replication using IBM i remote journaling between two sites about 25 miles apart and across production/backup partitions. The implementation delivered rapid role swaps (web cluster downtime measured at 4 minutes 9 seconds), continuous operations, support for very high transaction volumes, a zero-data-loss recovery point objective, and reliable HA/DR for SFG’s complex environment—backed by highly rated vendor support.

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