Case Study
Disaster Avoidance in a Virtual World: Woodforest Finds a Summertime Home for Its Data
Case Study Disaster Avoidance in a Virtual World: Woodforest Finds a Summertime Home for Its Data Overview Woodforest National Bank migrates its entire datacenter every six months to avoid disasters. The IT team encountered unique challenges when replicating virtualized production environments because the datacenter is 95 percent virtualized using VMware vSphere. Through a new replication paradigm provided by Zerto, hypervisor- based replication, Woodforest Bank is now able to effectively manage disaster recovery and avoidance needs. A national bank headquartered in T exas, Woodforest National Bank takes an “always on” approach to relationship banking, offering 24x7 live banking with tellers and personal bankers and only closing its doors one day each year – Christmas Day. Fo