This company does trading, portfolio management, retirement plans, and financial planning. They have a primary data center and needed a reliable and cost effective disaster recovery (DR) site. Because their DR site must come online quickly, the DR site must be run “hot”, constantly receiving updates from the primary data center.
Challenge #1
They had a single location, so were unable to manage a remote sitePrimaCloud Solution
PrimaCloud’s facilities are remote and managed by PrimaCloud
Benefit
They did not need technical staff at a remote site
Challenge #2
They did not want large charges for the disaster recovery site in standby modePrimaCloud Solution
Reserved resources and pay-as-you-go service
Benefit
Significant savings over colocation
Challenge #3
The disaster recovery site had to function just like their primary sitePrimaCloud Solution
PrimaCloud custom virtual private data center architecture
Benefit
Their application runs unchanged in the PrimaCloud cloud: Windows or Linux
PrimaCloud Services Used
- 50 GB RAM Used
- 70 GB Reserved
- 6 Linux and 11 Windows Instances
- 3000 GB Storage
- 100 mbps private circuit to customer site
- No Instances under full operations services
- On-demand system admin services on hourly rate during failover
- User experience monitoring
- 34 instances under server monitoring (including primary data center)
- Proprietary vendor equipment colocated in nearby rack on private VLAN
Benefit Summary
- Disaster recovery site achieved with no increase in staffing
- Disaster recovery site costs less than 1/3 of primary data center when not failed over (resources and staffing)
- Administrators can administer the disaster recovery site just like their main site
- Scalability means that the disaster recovery site can assist the primary site if needed
