CASE STUDY: BURR & FORMAN, LLC
Verinext provides a reliable and secure data protection strategy needed for Burr & Forman clients.
ABOUT BURR & FORMAN, LLC
Burr & Forman LLP is a century-old full-service law firm with a forward-thinking approach to providing legal solutions.
With nearly 300 attorneys and offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee, Burr & Forman offers a wide range of business and litigation services to diverse clients with local, national, and international interests.
Their industry strengths include financial institutions, manufacturing, health care, and the food and beverage sectors.
THE CHALLENGE
A reliable solution to assure that data was consistently protected and recoverable in the event of a disaster or unplanned outage.
With hundreds of attorneys serving multiple industries, Burr & Forman is a very active law firm with volumes of client files and case data under management, any loss of data or downtime could have a significant impact on their firm and its clients.
Burr & Forman also required rapid availability and support for critical law firm applications including its Microsoft Outlook email application, document management system, file sharing, and case management applications.
As they began to evaluate managed DR services from a number of sources, a top criterion was to select a DR Managed Service Provider that understood the legal industry and its security and compliance requirements.
“Before we had a solid DR solution, there was a lot of prayers that nothing would happen,” said Ron Poole, Chief Information Officer, Burr & Forman LLP. “We needed a solid DR strategy that we could rely on, without taxing our internal team or draining our IT budget.”
Verinext stepped in to help provide an automated disaster recovery (DR) strategy that would ensure data would always be available, come what may.
“We were comfortable with the Veristor team right away. They just give you a solid comfort level that they will do what they say they’ll do. And we’ve never been disappointed.”
-Ron Poole, Chief Information Officer Burr & Forman, LLP
THE SOLUTION
The Verinext Cloud Continuity solution delivered an agile compute, network, and storage resource design.
Burr & Forman LLP evaluated multiple managed service providers looking for the best fit for their needs. After weighing various DR solutions, architecture strategies, and the teams behind them, Verinext stood out as the clear winner. In fact, Burr & Forman was so impressed with Verinext’s DR-managed service solution, it engaged Verinext to also modernize its backup infrastructure.
Verinext architected a comprehensive backup solution using Commvault Simpana software that meets its high recovery point objective and ensures that its nearly 70TB of data under management is backed up with new levels of efficiency. It then replicates that data from the firm’s primary data center in Birmingham to a secondary location in Nashville.
“Verinext has demonstrated exceptional expertise to support the needs of our industry with legal clients in a number of highly regulated industries including healthcare and financial services it’s vital to have a data protection strategy that delivers stringent levels of security and compliance. Verinext has enabled us to achieve, even surpass, our security requirements.”
–Ron Poole, Chief Information Officer Burr & Forman , LLP
Success Highlights
- Agile computing, network, and storage resource design
- Modernize backup infrastructure using Commvault Simpana software
- Data management backed with new levels of efficiency
THE RESULTS
Burr & Forman now has the reliable data protection strategy needed to assure that client information is not only protected but secure.
With the Verinext team behind them, Burr & Forman now has the reliable data protection strategy needed to assure that client information is not only protected but secure. Critical applications that are largely client-matter-driven are continuously available and backed up for reliable retention – and now being prepared for a disaster is something the law firm is confident in, no prayers needed.
“Verinext really knows what they’re doing, they have your interest at heart and it’s that strong relationship and expertise that truly sets them apart.”
—Ron Poole, Chief Information Officer Burr & Forman , LLP