Case Study: Pethealth enhances its application reliability with a Managed Hosting solution from Allstream

"Avoided the costs associated with maintaining its own production servers and IT team."

 
With Allstream’s fully managed hosting solution, provided in partnership with SunGard, Pethealth gets access to the power, bandwidth, backup and service it needs to guarantee application availability for both its customers and staff.

Organzation
Pethealth Inc. is a leading provider of insurance and integrated health-related information services for North America’s pet market.

Industry
Insurance

Challenge
To support its leading pet-related applications, the company needed to enhance its infrastructure, bandwidth and IT talent.

Outcomes

• Doubled its size while adding only one person to its IT infrastructure team
• Enhanced application security and reliability
• Strengthened its disaster recovery with off-site hosting and access to alternate facilities in the event of an emergency
• Avoided the costs associated with maintaining its own production servers and IT team
• Migrated its Exchange server and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to the hosted environment to support roughly 200 employees across Canada, the US and the UK

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