Predicted Hurricane Season Prompts Leading Organizations to Implement Continuous Availability Solutions
Businesses Turn to Neverfail Technologies for Protection During Severe Weather
AUSTIN, Texas – May 21, 2007 – The Neverfail Group (Neverfail), a leading global software company providing both a high availability solution and disaster recovery software, today announced the company is helping organizations prepare for the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season by providing the latest continuous availability technologies. Neverfail boasts the industry’s most diverse set of Windows-based applications, ensuring end-user continuity for organizations of all sizes. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Colorado State University have predicted 2007 to be a very active season, with 17 named storms and 9 potential hurricanes.
National Hurricane Preparedness Week, May 20-26, prompts many organizations to evaluate and test their disaster recovery solutions. Many times, IT managers determine that productivity and revenues would be severely impacted if end-users were unable to access mission-critical data and applications during instances of downtime. In fact, Infonetics found that medium-sized organizations lose an average of 1 percent of their annual revenue, or $867,000, to downtime each year , reinforcing the need for businesses directly affected by natural disasters to regularly evaluate their level of preparedness.
“With offices and staff dispersed throughout the entire state, communication is critical to our life-saving work,” said, Max Prather, IT manager at Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency. “Our Exchange server is replicated in real time, so when weather affects power and traditional communications at our data center in New Orleans Neverfail instantly transfers all Exchange services to a backup site. There is no loss of data, mail never stops flowing and the process is invisible to users. Neverfail has performed flawlessly in disaster drills and is a key part of our disaster plan.”
Because lives are dependent upon the availability of its email environment and data, the threat of tropical storms and hurricanes influenced the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA) to seek a geographically clustered disaster recovery solution. Located in the Gulf Coast region, LOPA is the only federally designated organ procurement organization for the State of Louisiana. The agency focuses on educating the medical community and the general public about organ and tissue donation issues, working with families through the donation process, recovering donated organs and tissue and placing the organs and tissue for transplant. LOPA has implemented Neverfail for Microsoft® Exchange solution to ensure uninterrupted connectivity throughout any inclement weather
“Power outages and structural damages resulting from hurricanes are the most critical issues for our organization,” said Janine Sylvas, IT director at Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann L.L.C.. “Our firm required a solution that would not only protect our sensitive data but also ensure that our employees could continue working at all times. Neverfail’s continuous availability technology allows us to proactively address issues before they occur, helping to provide the services our clients require at any time.”
With the effects of the 2005 hurricane season still fresh in their minds, New Orleans-based law firm Stone Pigman, implemented Neverfail’s continuous availability software to protect the firm’s applications and sensitive legal data. Previously relying on tape backup to protect its data and critical information, Stone Pigman selected Neverfail solutions for Exchange, SQL and File Server in their New Orleans headquarters and at their secondary location in Montgomery, Texas. With Neverfail in place, Stone Pigman ensures its staff remains continuously connected to working applications no matter what type of disruption may occur.
Neverfail is the only continuous availability solution capable of proactively monitoring the health of an organization’s entire server environment including hardware, network infrastructure, operating system and supported applications. Should an issue be detected, Neverfail’s solution is capable of taking preemptive action to ensure end-user continuity throughout the enterprise. Additionally, Neverfail offers transparent failover and out-of-the-box integration with anti-virus products, rounding out the most complete high availability solution on the market.
“It is imperative that organizations critically evaluate and test their disaster recovery and continuous availability solutions at regular intervals throughout the year, especially before hurricane season,” said Peter Parker, Neverfail Group CEO. “In today’s competitive business environment, an organization’s ability to remain connected to mission-critical applications at all times is paramount to their success. Neverfail is committed to providing cost-effective, continuous availability solutions that better prepare organizations for instances of planned and unplanned downtime.”
About Neverfail
Neverfail is a leading global software company providing affordable
data protection, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions
focused on keeping users productive. Neverfail's software solutions
enable users to remain continuously connected to the live software
application irrespective of hardware, software, operating system, or
network failures. Neverfail's mission of eliminating application downtime
for the end user delivers the assurance of business continuity, removes
the commercial and IT management costs associated with system downtime and
enables the more productive use of IT resources.
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