Case Study: Gravit8 achieves market-leading restore speed and 100% profit on backup services with Acronis Data Cloud

Gravit8 Delivers Market-Leading Restore Speed While Profiting with Acronis

Gravit8, a South African IT services provider supporting more than 40 small-to-medium businesses and roughly 87 TB of client data, was struggling with lengthy backup windows, unreliable restores and poor user experience from Veritas BackupExec. To address these issues the company adopted Acronis solutions, initially Acronis Backup Cloud, to meet requirements for fast, low-impact backups and reliable restore capabilities.

Gravit8 deployed Acronis Backup Cloud and later Acronis Data Cloud to enable hybrid local-and-cloud protection, bare‑metal restores and a single monitoring dashboard; provisioning seats and initiating backups now takes under 10 minutes and incremental cloud backups within 24 hours. Acronis-powered restores run about two hours from on‑site storage and four hours from the cloud, and the move delivered measurable gains for Gravit8—95% increase in storage usage, 100% profit on backup services, faster onboarding and reduced technical overhead.

Gravit8

Gary Fouché

Co-Owner