Case Study: Westinghouse Lighting achieves rapid, reliable offsite recovery and tape-free backups with Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct

Hurricane Sandy No Match for Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct Backup as a Service (BaaS)

Westinghouse Lighting Corporation, a Philadelphia-based global manufacturer of electrical and lighting products, faced a critical backup and disaster-recovery problem in October 2012. The company relied on slow, error-prone tape backups and experienced delayed vendor support, and the approaching threat of Hurricane Sandy made it urgent to get business‑critical data safely offsite.

Arcserve deployed its UDP Cloud Direct BaaS, spinning up a West Coast volume and backing up 1.4 TB of Windows/Mac data and critical databases (Exchange, SQL, Dynamics) in roughly eight hours. The move eliminated tape dependence, automated offsite backups, made restores fast and easy, reduced IT time and costs with simple, predictable pricing, and gave the IT team reliable, scalable recovery and peace of mind.

Westinghouse

Carl Nestor

IT Specialist