Eversheds Opts for DH2i DxConsole Through Computacenter

DH2i Company,
a provider of hypervisor-less application virtualization solutions, announced
that Eversheds International, a law firm, has chosen its DxConsole application virtualization solution to
help manage its IT environment.

More specifically, Eversheds plans to utilize DxConsole to ensure failover and
HA, DR, flexibility, scalability and optimization of it SQL Server environment.

Eversheds’ 4,500 lawyers and employees work
as one global team, sharing a distinctive culture, which has deep client
relationships at its core. Whether providing advice that is complex or
straightforward, multi-national or local, an attitude of delivering only the very
best underscores everything the firm does.

In 2012, programme manager Tim Connop
identified the need for a technology review. Its purpose was twofold; to
maintain and enhance the high level of service his team provides to internal
employees and external clients, and to comply with internal governance and
external regulatory requirements. During the review, Connop realized that
Eversheds required a new solution to help it to manage its SQL Server
environment. This is one of Eversheds’ most business critical environments as
it hosts over 40 million documents and associated metadata.

Eversheds turned to trusted advisor, Computacenter PLC, an European independent provider of IT infrastructure services.
Computacenter recommended a relative newcomer to the market, DH2i and its DxConsole, application virtualization for SQL Server. After
initial discussions with DH2i, the next step was to conduct an exhaustive proof
of concept (POC), which in this case included DxConsole piloting four
large key Eversheds databases.

"The
POC progressed exactly as planned. Failover to, and restarting in, both data
centers functioned perfectly, as well as restarting across various nodes. We
also got the application servers successfully communicating directly with the
databases," explained Connop. "Moreover, since our DBAs are already familiar with the recently
end-of-lifed PolyServe, we believe the move to DxConsole will be seamless;
avoiding the training and transition issues we would likely have with other
alternative technologies."

Connop added: "The fact that DH2i offers such a robust roadmap with support for
applications such as shared files, Citrix, and SharePoint was also a
big plus. We look forward to learning more about these solutions and how they
can help us to improve the availability and performance of our other business
critical apps, as well as lower associated costs, as DH2i makes them available."

"Eversheds
regards the protection of its applications and data an upmost priority – there
is no room for negotiation here. It therefore recognized that in order to
maintain its SLA metrics, it required a new solution to manage its SQL Server
environment," said Don Boxley, co-founder and CEO, DH2i. "DxConsole was chosen as it offers instance
resiliency via failover from host-to-host and/or site-to-site. For DR,
DxConsole can dynamically re-host SQL Server instances anywhere – freely and
transparently, within and between heterogeneous physical, virtual and cloud environments." 

He continued: "In addition, DxConsole
enables SQL Server instances to be load-balanced, quickly and transparently, to
onsite or remote resources providing virtually unlimited flexibility and scalability.
This also enables onsite resources to be fully optimized and capital
expenditures to be deferred."