Peak 10 takes A&R Logistics from Disaster to Recovery, and Beyond – at “Warp Speed”

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – June 9, 2017 – Peak 10 - In its latest case study, national IT infrastructure, connectivity and cloud services provider, Peak 10, Inc., explains the potentially catastrophic power interruptions that A&R Logistics was able to mitigate with Peak 10’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution. The case study outlines how Peak 10 helped A&R Logistics, a transporter of plastic resins and a rapidly growing company with a national footprint, fail over to its Recovery Cloud; operate there for 45 days while reestablishing its production environment in a colocation facility; and implement a permanent, remote DR solution.

In regards to the unplanned and potentially catastrophic power interruptions that A&R Logistics began experiencing at its production data center and having to find an immediate, high-performance solution, Rick Blanchard, vice president of technology, stated, “I’ve never been in a situation like this one before, and most companies won’t ever see a similar situation. But I have worked at other companies where we wanted to go to the cloud for production or disaster recovery, and either we thought we didn’t have the resources to do it, or we just didn’t know the next steps to take.”

“We fully replicated the data center on the Recovery Cloud within five weeks of the initial call [to Peak 10] – which believe me, was a phenomenal accomplishment. And our performance in the Recovery Cloud was equal to or even better than our previous production performance,” added Blanchard. “Having a partner with Peak 10’s expertise, dedication, and ability to execute proved invaluable, and it’s great to have them as a partner now and going forward.”

A cost-effective solution that ensures rapid recovery of business-critical applications with minimal data loss, the Peak 10® Recovery Cloud maximizes uptime and availability without requiring changes to your existing IT infrastructure. It consists of three levels of flexible and secure cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) tuned to any organization’s business environment. Customers can choose multiple tiers for the specific disaster requirements of different workloads – to create a tailored disaster recovery solution that ensures the adequate protection of data and applications in the event of a failure.

In addition to its appeal to customers, Peak 10’s Recovery Cloud has garnered attention from industry analysts and others. Peak 10 was the first provider in the Americas to achieve the Cisco Powered Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) designation under the Cisco® Cloud and Managed Services Advanced Certification. It was also listed on Gartner’s first-ever DRaaS Magic Quadrant in 2015 and was awarded 2016 Cisco Cloud Solutions Partner of the Year for the Americas – GSP Cloud and Business Acceleration.