Oklahoma Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance has expanded its disaster recovery and cloud connectivity work with 11:11 Systems. Tests restored critical systems in just under an hour.
The work centres on systems used for claims, policies and cheque processing, which the insurer wanted to keep available during severe weather and other disruptions. Operating across Oklahoma, a state often associated with tornado activity, it needed a stronger recovery model than basic replication.
Founded in 1946 and based in Oklahoma City, the insurer has offices in all 77 Oklahoma counties and serves more than 140,000 member families through a network of local agents. That footprint ties operational resilience closely to its ability to maintain service across the state when storms affect local infrastructure.
To support that effort, the company adopted 11:11 Disaster Recovery as a Service for Zerto, 11:11 Managed Recovery and 11:11 Managed Connectivity for AWS Direct Connect. Together, the services were intended to create what the companies described as a functional hot-site strategy, backed by regular testing and external support for both recovery and connectivity.
Tested recovery time came in well ahead of the insurer’s original target of eight hours. The process also gave it clearer expectations about what would happen in an outage and when systems could be brought back online.