The background

South West Communications Group provides London & Country Mortgages with a totally resilient managed network and a virtualized environment for its website and data.

London & Country Mortgages, based in Bath, is the UK's largest no-fee mortgage broker. It helps thousands of people every year find the right deal on their mortgage and life insurance. Its advice is free and its aim is to make the whole process of finding and applying for a mortgage as simple and as cost-effective as possible.

The challenge

London & Country’s website links to a range of different websites to enable potential and existing homeowners to find the best mortgage deal available. In essence, this is a price comparison website and therefore requires high availability to serve its customers efficiently. It also provides data to a whole host of other websites dealing with mortgages and life insurance. London & Country was seeking a resilient server solution and infrastructure to suit its website and data storage needs.

South West Communications Group had provided London & Country with its data backup service since 2007 therefore it was aware of their industry-leading data centre and its portfolio of services and solutions and as such, turned to them for their recommendations

The solution

South West Communications Group designed a totally resilient network and virtualized environment for London & Country Mortgages in a single solution that included:

•    Data centre infrastructure with no single point of failure
•    Server hardware
•    SQL Server monitoring
•    Resilient Internet connectivity
•    Data backup
•    Virtualization
•    RAID 5 storage
•    Ongoing support 24/7

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