Success Stories

Business: Ruden McClosky is a full-service law firm with 10 offices throughout Florida. The firm provides a complete range of legal services and business solutions across a broad scope of cases and clients, both domestic and international. With a staff of 500, including 200 attorneys, it is one of the largest and most prestigious firms in Florida.

Challenge: Because Ruden McClosky practices in one of the most volatile weather regions in the United States, IT officials at the firm recognized the need for a reliable disaster recovery plan. The firm also saw the opportunity to consolidate infrastructure and improve WAN communications across its networked locations.

Solution: A recovery management solution was implemented that included the establishment of a secondary data center in Chicago, which now serves as the firm’s failover site. In addition, dynamic data replication is conducted 24/7/365 with the help of WAN acceleration technology from CA partner Riverbed Technology.

Result: Not only does Ruden McClosky today enjoy an average WAN capacity increase of 460%, but the recovery management program that the firm implemented was able to provide 100% data and system availability during one of Florida’s worst recent storms—Hurricane Wilma. In fact, according to officials, business never missed a beat.