Mon, 16 April 2012
![]() Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: VMware. When Hurricane Ike struck Texas in 2008, it became the second costliest hurricane ever to make landfall in the U.S. It was also a wake-up call for Houston-based insurance wholesaler Myron Steves & Co., which was not struck directly but nonetheless realized its IT disaster recovery (DR) approach was woefully inadequate. Supporting some 3,000 independent insurance agencies in the Gulf Coast region, with many insured properties in that active hurricane zone, Myron Steves must have all it resources up and available, if and when severe storms strike. The next BriefingsDirect discussion then centers on how Myron Steves, a small- to medium-sized business (SMB), developed and implemented a modern disaster recovery and business continuity strategy based on a high-degree of server and clients virtualization. Learn how Tim Moudry, Associate Director of IT, and William Chambers, IT Operations Manager, both at Myron Steves, made a bold choice to go essentially 100 percent server virtualized in 90 days. That then set the stage for a faster, cheaper, and more robust DR capability. It also helped them improve their desktop-virtualization delivery, another important aspect of maintaining constant availability no mater what. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: VMware.
Direct download: BriefingsDirect-Virtualization_Makes_Disaster_Recovery_Strategic_for_Insurance_Wholesaler_Myron_Steves.mp3
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