Managed IT Services
Keeping Business on the Fast Track

INDUSTRY

ENVIRONMENT

SOFTWARE DEPLOYED

ORGANIZATION

BWP Transport, Inc., is a family owned trucking company located in St. Clair, Michigan. Specializing in the transportation, storage, and delivery of dry bulk materials – specifically plastics – the BWP Transport fleet provides transportation services to all 48 states as well as Canada and Mexico.

SITUATION

The time-sensitive nature of the shipping industry requires that all IT applications be accessible around the clock to ensure on-time deliveries, effective transportation management, efficient communication, and compliance with safety regulations. This Michigan transportation and trucking company was looking for a proactive solution that would ensure uptime for their mission critical trucking dispatch and operations software.

SOLUTION

Logicorps researched and implemented a Windows Server 2003 SQL Server Cluster. Clustering can best be described as a technology that allows one physical server to take over the tasks and responsibilities of another physical server that has failed. Regardless of how the system may fail (power outages, drive failures, viruses, etc), clustering ensures that users running mission critical applications will have little or no downtime when such a failure occurs.

TIMELINE

First Quarter 2007

RESULTS

Logicorps, a Michigan based IT services firm, integrated and now maintains this high availability server cluster for BWP Transport. Now with application redundancy, BWP Transport has 100% application availability, data integrity, and has reduced costs associated with downtime.