Law Firms and Business Continuity

"A law firm doesn't make gadgets or anything tangible; our product is the legal advice of our attorneys, the written word, and the accessibility of our legal teams is critical — especially during a hurricane or natural disaster. We felt we had to replace NSI's software, not because it didn't work, but just because it was too time consuming. With documentation that was several hundred pages long, eight hours of actual 'failover' time — during a 'real-world' hurricane situation — is alarming."

— Ken Orgeron, CIO

Following an extensive evaluation of a number of leading high availability solutions, including Microsoft's own server clustering solution, Pillsbury Winthrop found that only XOsoft's WANSyncHA suite of application availability solutions met with its requirements.

"Some of the products we evaluated were just too high-maintenance and could not efficiently cluster across WAN. WANSyncHA is the only product that allows us to reduce our dependence on outsourced disaster recovery services. It offers everything we have been looking for in a high availability solution and ensures that, no matter what challenge they may face, our lawyers will be able to simply keep working."

— Albert D. Ganzon, Network Engineering Manager

". . . the single greatest reason we selected WANSyncHA was that it fully supported replication from a cluster to a standalone system, saving us a significant amount of capital on hardware and software — the other products required an identical cluster in the remote location. Additionally, XOsoft's built-in rollback capabilities were of added value to us. This enables us to rollback changes in the event of corrupted replicated data, reducing our exposure and bringing our systems online as quickly as possible.

XOsoft's WANSyncHA was chosen over several other products."

— Jeremy Newhouse, Manager of Information Technology Projects

Kennedys Solicitors, a global law firm with headquarters based in London, is among those leading international firms that selected WANSync as the mission critical Business Continuity tool in their newly migrated Exchange infrastructure. E-mail was identified as the most business-critical application for Kennedys, with a maximum downtime of no more than two hours permitted. Carolyn Lees, IT Director at Kennedys, notes "All of the competitive products to WANSync were very bandwidth-intensive. WANSync has performed well when required, is unobtrusive and requires little support during normal working conditions."

Read more about Kennedys successful business continuity program.