Blue Mountain Resorts Limited

Blue Mountain is Ontario’s Largest Mountain Resort, located just 90 minutes north of Toronto and 11 km west of Collingwood. The resort is a four-season recreational and conference facility destination. Situated on the Niagara Escarpment, one of 6 UNESCO World Biosphere Reserves, the resort overlooks the southern shores of Georgian Bay. During the winter season, over 700,000+ visitors travel from Southern Ontario and the surrounding northern US States to enjoy 34 ski/snowboarding trails, 4 terrain parks, serviced by 12 lifts and a Snow Tubing Park. In the summer months, the nationally ranked Monterra Golf course welcomes golfers to enjoy its spectacular layout.  These outdoor based attractions are complemented by 800+ accommodation units comprised of the Blue Mountain Inn, 4 condominium developments, Historic Snowbridge, Rivergrass, and the luxurious studio to 4 bedroom suites which comprise the Village at Blue

Solution Description

E-ternity was brought in to address two specific objectives: architect and implement a High Availability IT infrastructure to keep systems online at all times, and assist in the development of a step by step Disaster Recovery Plan.  To improve the redundancy of their IT infrastructure, E-ternity helped the Blue Mountain team architect a solution utilizing IBM’s BladeCenter Blade Servers, IBM’s DS Series Data Storage, and VMware’s virtualization software to dramatically increase the availability of online systems.  For the Disaster Recovery Plan, E-ternity Consultants met with Blue Mountain’s team to determine the resort’s current state of preparedness and to define courses of action.  The next step was for E-ternity to develop a step by step comprehensive plan to address any threat aimed at bringing down the resort’s online systems. This plan incorporated the new IT environment.

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