Case Study: BYU College of Life Sciences achieves continuous data availability and faster recovery with Arcserve OneXafe and ShadowXafe

BYU Relies on Arcserve to Ensure Data Availability

Brigham Young University’s College of Life Sciences needed uninterrupted access to research, teaching, and administrative data, but its existing backup and disaster-recovery approach couldn’t complete timely backups, meet established RPOs/RTOs, or control rapidly growing storage—all while operating under tight budget and security constraints.

The college deployed Arcserve OneXafe (scale-out object storage) and ShadowXafe (SLA-driven backup and instant VM-boot recovery), gaining a cost-effective, easy-to-manage solution that met recovery objectives, cut storage needs via deduplication and compression, and enabled flexible offsite disaster recovery; the IT team reports faster management, strong support, and has recommended Arcserve to peers while considering future cloud options.

BYU College of Life Sciences

Danny Yeo

IT Director