Drinks distributor uses leased lines to reduce business risk
Drinks distributor uses leased lines to reduce business risk
Robert Roberts and its subsidiary Findlaters have upgraded their IT system to include a virtualisation and recovery system in order to reduce the risk it is exposed to.
The tea, coffee, wine and spirits distributer hopes that its investment will help with disaster recovery, therefore reducing business risk and improve up-time and availability. Robert Roberts’ Information Systems manager, Jim Duggan, explained, "We needed a solution in place so that if some kind of interruption or disaster occurred, we could get back to work as quickly as possible.”
It was then a case of deciding what needed upgrading and carrying out comprehensive tests: "We had 15 physical servers, many of which needed to be replaced in order for the business to have confidence in the reliability of its IT systems.
“Additionally, we run a large latch job over the weekend to update our business intelligence database and this was taking some 14 hours to complete.”
The physical system that was implemented included integrating the recovery infrastructure with its fibre network visa high speed leased lines to its site. The replication of its servers to a back-up server overnight, then allowed the firm to back up the material to tape the next day.
Duggan added, “This is a big bonus in terms of disaster recovery and business continuity planning and it has created confidence in the reliability of our IT systems. This allows us to use instant recovery to recover a server in a couple of minutes should we need to," he added.
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