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Guthrie County State Bank: off tape, always on

October 27, 20261 min read

A rural Iowa bank replaced costly, unreliable tape recovery with two servers that keep its applications available.

The situation

Guthrie County State Bank relied on tape backups that proved costly and unreliable for disaster recovery.

What they did

It deployed StorMagic SvSAN on two servers, choosing software over a fixed hardware package for cost and flexibility.

The result

Online applications stay continuously available on stable, off-the-shelf hardware.

Why it matters

Community banks and credit unions need continuity without a large IT budget. This is the smallest design that delivers it.

Source: StorMagic. This organization is a StorMagic customer, not a Connex client.

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