Case Study: West African Examinations Council achieves continuous data and application availability with Vision Solutions' Double-Take Availability

West African Examinations Council - Customer Case Study

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), headquartered in Accra and responsible for examinations and certification across five countries, needed to protect critical applications and data (Exchange, SQL and file servers) from threats ranging from hardware failure and human error to natural disasters. Any prolonged server downtime or data loss would severely disrupt its exams and certification processes, so WAEC required a robust business-continuity solution to ensure no loss of data and minimal downtime.

With Sidmach Technologies, WAEC implemented Double-Take Availability to replicate production servers in real time, enable fast failover, and maintain up to 64 point-in-time copies via VSS for recovery from accidental deletion or corruption. Backup servers run in Microsoft Azure while production stays on a mix of physical and virtual hosts; tested failovers completed in under an hour for Exchange and under 20 minutes for SQL and file servers. The solution delivered reliable, cloud-based backup and recovery, reduced business risk, greater service availability and the peace of mind that critical data and applications can be rapidly restored.

West African Examinations Council