Harper & Cole Legal Group operates three offices serving corporate, litigation, and commercial clients throughout the region. After years of relying on aging on-premises infrastructure, frequent server failures and increasing maintenance costs were beginning to affect productivity. By modernizing the firm’s technology with a secure cloud platform, proactive monitoring, and redundant backups, AstroIT significantly improved reliability while providing attorneys with secure access to case files from any location.
Legal Case Study
A mid-size law firm cut downtime by 92% after moving to the cloud.
Aging on-premises servers had become a constant source of interruptions for attorneys across three offices. After migrating to a fully monitored cloud environment with redundant backups, outages dropped from 14 hours per month to less than one.
−92%
Monthly downtime
Industry
Legal
Locations
3 offices
Engagement
Cloud Migration
Client Since
2021
Client Overview
Harper & Cole Legal Group
3 offices
120 employees
Corporate & litigation law
Business Challenge
Critical case files trapped on aging infrastructure
Harper & Cole relied on aging on-premises servers that frequently experienced storage failures, slow performance, and unexpected downtime. Attorneys regularly lost access to case files during peak working hours, delaying filings and client communication.
Leadership wanted to modernize their infrastructure without interrupting daily legal operations. At the same time, they needed stronger backup protection and secure remote access for attorneys working from courtrooms and client locations.
"Our attorneys shouldn't have to wonder whether the document server will be online before every hearing."
— Harper & Cole Legal Group, Managing Partner
Solution Delivered
Modern cloud infrastructure with built-in resilience
AstroIT designed and executed a phased cloud migration that replaced legacy servers with highly available cloud infrastructure, centralized monitoring, and automated disaster recovery.
Cloud Migration
Applications and document storage migrated with minimal disruption.
Redundant Backups
Encrypted cloud backups with automated verification.
Identity Security
Multi-factor authentication and role-based access controls.
24/7 Monitoring
Continuous infrastructure monitoring with proactive remediation.
Implementation Timeline
Migration completed in 10 weeks
1
Infrastructure Assessment
Reviewed existing servers, storage, applications, and dependencies.
2
Cloud Architecture
Designed a resilient cloud platform with backup and disaster recovery.
3
Migration
Moved applications and data office by office to minimize disruption.
4
Optimization
Enabled monitoring, security policies, and user training before production handoff.
The migration was far smoother than we expected. Our attorneys now spend their time serving clients instead of waiting for systems to recover.
James Harper
Managing Partner, Harper & Cole Legal Group
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