IPA Achieved High Data Availability With No Single Point Of Failure

Innovative process Administration LLC(IPA) provides fully automited employee self service enrolrment and related administration for employers and benefit administrators. Since 1994 the company has delivered to hunders of major employer groups, making it one most experienced and successful manages survices providers in the benefits administration outsourcing arena. With clients and their employees accessing IPA's services 24x7 through its website, high avilability is critical.

Driven by study growth and by ever larger clients demanding bullet-proof data avilability, IPA planned a systems infrastructure upgrade, migrating from the Sun/Solaris platform to a Windows/Intel platform running Oracle 10g for its critical database servers. In conjunction with this platform migration, IPA began developing for a SAN. Ultimately, its settled on a highly redundent systems and storage infrastrusture involving as many as 60 servers, multiple RELDATA unified storage control heads, multiple Nexsan SATABoy storage arrays, redundant QLogic switches, and 21TB of raw storage speed accros its primary and remote data centers.