Case Study: Phoenix Aviation Managers Take Flight With A Disaster Recovery Solution From InMage Systems And BMC Solutions

The Challenge: Disaster Recovery on the Radar
Phoenix Aviation Managers is a wholly owned subsidiary of Old Republic International Corporation, one of the nation's 50 largest publicly held insurance enterprises, with assets exceeding $12B and capitalization of more than $4B. Since 1983, the company has served the general aviation community with a wide range of insurance products, providing coverage for airports and aircraft ranging from small to medium-sized private planes to corporate jets.

Phoenix's main data center is located in Kennesaw, Georgia. The company's mission-critical applications include SQL, Exchange, imaging and insurance. Additionally, Phoenix has a partially virtualized IT environment based on VMware that houses file and print servers, domain controllers, and the main file server that functions as the primary storage repository. A disaster recovery site is located in Suwanee, Georgia and houses another set of VMware machines and a storage area network (SAN).