Canadian Insurance Provider Protects Business Critical Applications With Neverfail
Westland Insurance Calls On Leading High Availability Provider for Proactive and Seamless Disaster Recovery Technologies
AUSTIN, Texas – June 4, 2007 – The Neverfail Group (Neverfail), a leading global software company providing both a high availability solution and disaster recovery software, today announced Westland Insurance Group (Westland) has implemented Neverfail high availability solutions to protect the company’s Microsoft® Exchange, SQL Server, File Server and IIS environments. Westland, one of British Columbia’s largest community-based insurance brokerages providing auto, home and commercial policies, now ensures more than 300 IT users in 22 offices remain connected during instances of planned and unplanned downtime.
Located along the west coast of Canada and near the San Andreas Fault Line, natural conditions, including harsh winter storms and earthquakes, serve as viable threats to the company’s day-to-day operations. In 2005 and 2006, Westland Insurance conducted internal and external audits of the company’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans to determine the company’s level of preparedness. During the audits, Westland’s IT department identified four mission critical applications –Exchange, SQL Server, File Server and IIS – that required continuous protection. The company immediately began the search for a high availability solution that was easy to install and manage, could operate in geographically dispersed scenarios and would proactively alert IT staff if any issues arose.
“Inevitably, hardware and software will fail, and it is incumbent upon our IT department to adequately plan and prepare for instances of downtime,” said Geoff Belair, IT director for Westland Insurance. “Neverfail’s ability to proactively monitor the health of our organization’s Exchange, SQL Server, File Server and IIS environments not only meets our self-imposed disaster recovery requirements but it also ensures that Westland’s employees may continue working during routine maintenance or unplanned disruptions. The installation of Neverfail’s high availability technology has saved us time and money while improving the availability of our business-critical applications.”
Neverfail high availability solutions proactively monitor the health of an organization’s entire server environment including hardware, network infrastructure, operating system and supported applications. If an issue arises with an organization’s primary server environment, users are seamlessly redirected to the company’s redundant site until issue resolution has been completed. The entire failover process is completely transparent to the end-user and does not require restarting email clients or applications. During this process, Westland’s users experience little to no interruption and are able to conduct normal business activities as issues are being resolved.
“The continuous availability of mission-critical applications to insurance organizations and their employees is crucial to providing timely, quality customer service,” said Dave French, Neverfail Americas CEO. “We are pleased that Westland Insurance has selected Neverfail for its business continuity needs, and we look forward to continuing to deliver cost-effective high availability solutions designed with today’s IT user in mind.”
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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