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Celadon Signs with SafeData for HA Hot Site Services
Published: April 25, 2006
by Alex Woodie
Celadon Trucking Service, a provider of long-haul transportation services across the United States, Mexico, and Canada, has signed a contract with SafeData to provide high availability and disaster recovery services for its iSeries computing environment, SafeData announced yesterday. In the event of a disaster or major server outage, Celedon's outage would be cut from 24 to 36 hours down to about two hours with SafeData.
SafeData launched its unique blend of high availability mirroring and hot-site disaster recovery services last year (see SafeData Launches Hosting Service for HA and DR"). Under the company's SafeData/HA offering, a customer implements one of the high availability mirroring solutions--it supports iTera's Echo2 and Lakeview Technology's MIMIX ha1--and then replicates data from their primary iSeries machine to SafeData's iSeries machine, located at its data center, thereby preventing the customer from needing to purchase a second iSeries machine.
Michael Gabbei, the Celadon CIO, said the company's previous hot-site arrangement was not up to par. "We evaluated many solutions and it was SafeData's top-notch disaster recovery facility in Medford, Massachusetts and its strong knowledge of both business and technology, especially in the iSeries and iTera solutions, that made SafeData/HA far outweigh our other options," he says.
Celadon Trucking Service is a subsidiary of the Celadon Group, a $430-million company based in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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