Case Studies

Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners

Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners is an independent town planning consultancy founded in 1962 to provide specialist advice on all aspects of the planning process. Today, Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners is one of the UK’s largest independent firms specialising in development planning with offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester and Newcastle.

NLP’s business continuity strategy was to rely on fault tolerant hardware on all servers; however, this proved ineffective, as the organisation experienced two instances of unplanned downtime in a period of six months. These outages were caused by hardware failure and software corruption, and had a negative impact on business operations; for each day that its main system was down, NLP would risk losing significant billing time.

Therefore, Paul Fuller, Network Infrastructure Manager at NLP approached Daren Oliver of Fitzrovia IT for a business continuity strategy for the firm. Daren recommended Neverfail for Exchange, SQL and File Server in a VMWare VI3 virtualised environment

Following the successful Fitzrovia IT implementation the servers are now fully protected against instances of downtime, ensuring that employees can continue to access business-critical documents regardless of a failure. "Neverfail and VMWare VI3 provides us with all of the protection that we need for our entire server environment. Additionally,  Neverfail Data Rollback Module provides an extra line of defence against corruption and virus attack by allowing us to customise our snapshot schedules and quickly retrieve and restore data in the event of a failover due to data corruption," said Fuller.

"We have experienced significant benefits from deploying Neverfail and VMWare VI3, and the implementation has allowed us to meet key business objectives: to deliver continuous availability of the entire IT environment to our staff, and to ultimately provide a better level of service to our clients," concluded Fuller.

Fitzrovia IT Limited implemeted this system during the early part of 2008.

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