Case study · Insurance
Disaster Recovery Services
An insurer's legacy recovery left it exposed to roughly 24 hours of downtime. To win partner agreements it needed a 4-hour RTO and 5-minute RPO. We rebuilt its disaster recovery and cut RTO by almost 85%.
- Client
- An insurance company with US and Canada offices
- Disclosure
- Anonymised
Headline metrics
- ~85%
- RTO reduction
- 4 hr
- Recovery time objective
- 5 min
- Recovery point objective
Additional context
Resilience the business could sign a contract against: a recovery posture measured in hours and minutes, not a hopeful day.
01 / Challenge
The problem in front of us.
The legacy data-recovery solution was unreliable and could leave the business down for around 24 hours. Expansion meant meeting partner agreements for a 4-hour recovery time objective and a 5-minute recovery point objective.
02 / Approach
How we set the work up.
We started with consultation to understand operations and the right recovery design, determined the assets the DR environment needed, optimised code by replacing static entries with dynamic ones across servers and databases, then stood up the DR site with full test plans before live testing.
03 / Solution
What we built.
A modern disaster recovery environment replaced the legacy system, with optimised infrastructure and dynamic configuration across web servers and database connections.
04 / Outcome
What it has held up to.
Recovery time objective fell by almost 85%, which let the client expand and enter the partnership agreements that needed it.
Stack
What it runs on.
- Disaster recovery
- Web servers
- Database replication
- Dynamic configuration
Tell us what you're trying to ship.
We'll start with a two-week diagnostic. No slides, no promises we can't keep.