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Harrington Property Group owns 2 subsidiary companies. |
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Their first subsidiary, Access Records Management, operates from a multi level 6,000 square meter warehouse and is 100% reliant on its IT systems to deliver on its client commitments. |
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Their second subsidiary, Park and Fly, have facilities to house over a 1,000 cars in a purpose built 7 storey car park and are 100% reliant on their IT infrastructure to find the cars. |
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The parent group relationship allowed for a cross-site solution that guarantees any failure to either business is
limited to minutes rather than days or weeks. |
The Challenge
Access Records Management offers a business to business service that deals with the secure storage and destruction of documents and sensitive data. They provide storage for some of the largest corporations in Australia and offers a guaranteed response time for the retrieval and delivery of the documents. They operate from a multi level 6,000 square meter warehouse and are 100% reliant on its IT systems to deliver on its client commitments.
Park and Fly operates a retail airport parking business where daily demand is cyclical based on the arrival and departure of flights. They have facilities to house over a 1,000 cars in a purpose built 7 storey car park and are 100% reliant on their IT infrastructure to find the cars.
The Senior Management team of Harrington Property Group recognized a need to implement a Disaster Recovery Strategy that would allow either company to continue to trade in the event of a partial or complete IT infrastructure failure. The plan needed to operate in real time ensuring up to the minute data was available to the businesses. Both businesses needed to be up and running within minutes of a failure.
Orstead’s Solution
The Harrington Property
Group engaged Orstead’s IT Strategic Planning
service to design the Disaster Recovery strategy.
Orstead’s Network Design & Installation service
was engaged to install and configure the strategic
solution.
A virtual private network (VPN) was established between the two companies. Multiple back up servers and workstations for each company where installed at the alternate business. A method of synchronization was implemented to ensure all critical data was fully redundant (a full up to date copy of the data sits at the alternate site at any one time).
In addition, Orstead also worked with both companies to establish policies and procedures to manage a complete or partial failure.
Business Benefits
Both companies are able to continue to operate, earn revenue and deliver on client commitments in the event of a partial or complete failure.
The impact to either business of a failure will be limited to a maximum of minutes rather than days or weeks.
Senior Management has fulfilled governance requirements that ensure business continuity and protects each company’s reputation and earning capacity.
The cross-site solution removed significant off-site costs that would normally be incurred under a standard Disaster Recovery solution.
The clear separation of each business has been maintained in the design through the use of stub networks but the data and IP of both businesses has been retained in-house under the banner of the Harrington Property Group.
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