Financial Advisement Firm Saunderson House Opts for PHD Virtual

PHD Virtual Technologies, Inc. announced Saunderson House Ltd, a financial advisement firm, is utilizing PHD’s Recovery Management Suite for data protection, and automation of DR testing, failover and failback.

PHD’s Recovery Management Suite includes the PHD Virtual Backup with CloudHook and ReliableDR.

Saunderson House initially switched to PHD ReliableDR because its previous provider was complicated and required a lot of configuration. The company has a VMware Enterprise environment powered by Nimble Storage, Inc. and utilizes Double-Take for replication.

With 1,300 clients, £3 billion under management and a fee-based system, Saunderson House needed a partner that could get them back online should an outage ever occur. Saunderson found that partner in PHD Virtual, who provides this service and guarantees recovery for this system.

“If our systems aren’t working, we will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars per day, so it was critical for us to find a partner that provided great data protection, and guaranteed failover and recovery,” said David Pritt, IT director, Saunderson House. “We love the PHD Recovery Management Suite because it provides powerful data protection, automates the DR testing process and provides peace of mind that the replicas are valid and will come back online, should we ever have to failover to them. While we are thankful that we haven’t had to failover in a real world situation yet, we used ReliableDR in the last DR test and it passed with flying colors.”

“For Saunderson House, time is literally money, so they need a backup and recovery partner that has a solution that is easy to run and reliable while guaranteeing data recovery to get them backup and running in just minutes in a crisis,” stated Joe Noonan, senior product manager, PHD Virtual. “Saunderson House management supports innovative infrastructure, and we are very happy that they have chosen us as a partner to meet their backup, recovery, failback, failover and reporting needs.“