With Hurricane Season Looming, Businesses Begin Safety Preparations and Planning
June 28 2010 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Businesses and organizations located in high hurricane risk
areas do not have the luxury of preparing in case a hurricane
occurs – they must prepare for when a hurricane will hit. For Arch
Reinsurance Ltd, a global provider of reinsurance products
headquartered in Bermuda, hurricane season represents an immense
threat to their business. This does not just entail stocking up on
flashlights and batteries, but also protecting critical business
systems to ensure that they stay up and running and are protected
from potential downtime and data loss. While these storms make
frequent attempts at stealing the company’s digital assets,
downtime and data loss would be devastating for Arch Reinsurance
Ltd. In response, the company has implemented a first-class
disaster recovery and business continuity plan to keep its business
operations up and running.
Sheridan Smith, Information Technology Manager at Arch
Reinsurance Ltd, first implemented a disaster recovery plan for the
company in 2006. After investigating several solutions, Smith chose
Double-Take Availability from Double-Take® Software (NASDAQ: DBTK)
and began working with Bill Baldwin, an implementation system
engineer from Double-Take Software’s FailSafe program, to develop a
comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity plan. From
the very outset the plan covered Arch Reinsurance’s Microsoft
Exchange environment as well as numerous other critical legacy and
SQL servers including Great Plains and file and print services.
Their operations are located in two physical production sites in
Bermuda which send data to another secured site where they can run
operations in the event of disaster. In addition, Arch Ltd uses
Double-Take Availability to replicate the same critical servers to
target servers in-house for local high availability.
“Every year in May and July, Bill visits our office to perform
upgrades and failover testing, and to discuss how we can continue
to improve our disaster recovery and business continuity plan to
insure that we are equipped for the upcoming hurricane season,”
said Smith. “With Bill’s help, and with Double-Take® Availability,
we are able to prepare for any type of hurricane or disaster. This
type of planning and protection really helps me sleep at night, and
enables our IT team to focus on additional areas requiring our
attention.”
“As evident in our continued partnership with Arch Reinsurance
Ltd., our professional services program strives to become an
extension of an organization’s IT team, working cohesively and
providing advice on implementing specific technologies and
strategies to meet each company’s individual needs,” said Baldwin.
“Double-Take Software’s professional services team is focused on
providing businesses and organizations with advice and assistance
year in and year out to implement, test and advance their disaster
recovery plan and strategy and meet their unique and specific
needs.”
Arch Reinsurance Ltd. has had such positive results with
Double-Take Software’s solutions at their Bermuda office that they
plan to use Double-Take Software solutions when expanding
operations in Europe during the next twelve months. The IT
expansion will require migrations and additional disaster recovery
sites in multiple physical locations in Europe.
For more information on Double-Take Software solutions and
hurricane preparedness advice visit www.doubletake.com.
About Double-Take® Software
Headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, Double-Take®
Software (Nasdaq: DBTK) is a leading provider of affordable
Workload Optimization products that are simple to use and enable IT
managers to easily move, protect, recover and more flexibly run
critical IT workloads in physical and virtual environments,
regardless of platform or location. With its unparalleled partner
programs, technical support, and professional services, Double-Take
Software is the solution of choice for more than 22,000 customers
worldwide, from SMEs to the Fortune 500. Information about
Double-Take Software’s products and services can be found at
www.doubletake.com.
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