Wolverine Packing Company

In the food industry, any type of business interruption represents a potential catastrophe. Large plants process, store, and move tens of thousands of pounds of meat products on any given day. These facilities must be able to fulfill, ship, and deliver customer orders virtually nonstop or risk massive amounts of spoiled product. The emergence of enterprise IT systems has allowed companies like Wolverine Packing to handle larger volumes of business without sacrificing quality or safety.

However, companies such as Wolverine still need a way to perform scheduled maintenance without interrupting daily operations. They also need to have a plan and process in place so that they can respond quickly and effectively in the event of a disaster. “Perishable product has got to get out the door,” explained John Kuriwchak, Wolverine IT manager. “For our system to even be down for a day, it would put us behind quite a bit. We’d have to manually ship product, and any corrupted data would take a long time to recoup.” Although the main server at Wolverine was robust, Kuriwchak recognized that Wolverine needed a high-availability and disaster recovery system to enable future growth.