Priority Express Courier
The Priority Express Group is a leading provider of courier, delivery, freight, warehousing, records management and shredding services for a wide array of businesses throughout Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, the Delaware Valley, Lehigh Valley and beyond. Priority is committed to delivering on your business’ success.
The Priority Group is made up of three companies:
- Priority Express specializes in providing same-day delivery for a wide array of businesses throughout Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, the Delaware Valley and beyond.
- Priority Archives is a premier provider of records management, document storage and data security for Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York City, Delaware Valley, Lehigh Valley and beyond.
- Priority Shred can handle all your document destruction needs. Priority Shred’s secure document destruction and paper shredding program is specifically designed to deal with the regulatory, privacy and confidentiality requirements.
Challenge
The Priority Group has been growing significantly for a number of years and, in many ways, had outgrown their core technology. Their business was facing an ever-increasing business need for redundancy, disaster recovery, and the reduction of server sprawl.
Approach
ITDATA, with its extensive background in virtualization technology, designed a highly redundant, virtualized infrastructure using VMware and state of the art Dell Servers and a Dell/EqualLogic PS4000 SAN. The entire network is designed to support the Priority Group’s 7x24x365 up-time requirement with redundant switches, servers, and fail-over internet connectivity. In addition, because of their up-time requirement, ITDATA was challenged to complete the upgrade of the Priority Group’s servers and systems with near zero downtime.
Results
The new virtual network was built alongside the current network which enabled a virtually seamless transition to the new platform meeting the criteria of near zero downtime.
In addition, we demonstrated the redundancy and reliability of the network to the client by removing network and power cables in real time simulating potential equipment failure points. The network did not go down.
ITDATA is pleased to help our client, the Priority Group, achieve new levels of infrastructure availability and reliability.