To stay ahead of the curve, Laffer Associates, founded by supply-side economist Arthur Laffer —world famous for the Laffer Curve— turned to Pointivity for a simple and secure Microsoft-based solution to reduce data risk and downtime.

Issue: As world-class thought leaders in the field of economic research and analysis, Laffer Associates faced high levels of data, increasingly complex IT requirements, and the never-ending demands of growth, regulatory compliance, and taxing application issues. They wanted to focus on protecting their core business and leverage the cloud to create a failsafe for their data, as even a minor outage would be a major setback.

Solution: Pointivity, who has consulted and managed Laffer Associates for over ten years, implemented Microsoft Azure as a solution to leverage offsite backups and business continuity. Affordable and easily supported by a single managed dashboard Laffer Associates, is now on a secondary platform without the expense of secondary infrastructure.
Laffer Associates is an economic research and consulting firm. The firm’s clients include institutional asset managers, money managers, pension funds, financial institutions, corporations, endowments, foundations, individuals and others throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Laffer Associates was founded in 1979 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.