Hamilton Beach, a national appliance manufacturer and distributer, had set multiple strategic initiatives to enhance their transformation. Their database administration was completely internal, and when they assessed their team’s capabilities and their initiatives, Hamilton Beach sought outside support. Christina Hollingsworth, Hamilton Beach’s VP of IT, discusses how they brought in Solvaria as a set of fresh eyes and expertise that allowed them to implement a number of enhancements and additional features during their peak busy season. Such as, working to go live on an Enterprise Resource Plan (ERP); Solvaria performed stress tests and ensured that Hamilton Beach’s high volume transactions would not impact business. Now, Hamilton Beach and Solvaria enjoy a trusted relationship and have integrated into Hamilton Beach’s team to optimize their database environment.

When Liberty Tax, a tax preparation franchise, lost two different SAN caches within two hours of each other in the middle of tax season, Senior DBA Cristin Flick called upon Solvaria to help. Every minute Liberty Tax’s backend servers were down they were losing business, so it was important for the issue to be resolved quickly and correctly. Solvaria’s team was already monitoring and maintaining Liberty Tax’s database environment, so they were able to jump in and immediately start helping. All of the team leads involved with the environment jumped on to a 24/7 conference line and decided to fall over to the Azure DR site that Solvaria helped build. Because of Solvaria’s expertise in how Liberty Tax’s data flowed and how to bring that data back online, the issue was able to be resolved after 4 days of 24/7 support.

Michael Goodman, president of energy forecasting company Tesla, Inc., explains how rapid business growth and emphasis on user experience led them to seek outside expert database management. With the help of VP of Client Services Angel Smith, Tesla now has optimized and scalable databases they trust Solvaria to manage.

Alan Hagerman, VP of technology for a Cloud-hosted software company, discusses how Solvaria works with both their internal developers and DBA team to optimize the company’s database environment. With Solvaria, the Cloud-hosted software company is able to eliminate their single point of failure, increase the depth of their team’s expertise, and get support with disaster recovery, migrations, and upgrades.

When VRSA’s (Virginia Risk Sharing Association) IT environment was faced with older servers and constrained resources, they were unsure of how to optimize their environment. Director of Information Services Mary Kay Marchetti discusses how Solvaria worked closely with and trained VRSA’s developers to optimize their Cloud environment. Then, Solvaria’s fractional CIO analyzed VRSA’s organization to create a 5-year IT roadmap that guided their path to a proactive IT environment.

Hilb Group Chief Information Officer Bert Hardy discusses Solvaria’s help with building and designing their data warehouse. With VP of Client Services Pamela Craven’s management, Hilb Group was able to automate their payroll system and bring Solvaria on as an extension of their DBA team to continue optimizing their databases.