Case Study: JW Lees (brewery & pub operator) achieves rapid recovery and scalable data protection with Arcserve

JW Lees can grow with confidence with Arcserve

JW Lees, a sixth-generation brewery and pub operator employing 1,300 staff across its managed estate and retail partners, was struggling with slow, unreliable tape backups that sometimes ran into the morning and made recoveries take two to three hours — a growing risk as the business pursued expansion. The IT team needed a faster, more efficient disaster-recovery solution to protect increasing volumes of data and support future growth.

The company deployed Arcserve appliances (replicating to cloud and a secondary appliance) to protect 11 TB across 11 physical and 17 virtual servers, with business-critical servers backed up every three hours and others backed up nightly plus weekly and monthly snapshots. The result: restores that used to take hours now take about five minutes, IT staff are freed for higher-value work, and JW Lees has a scalable, full disaster-recovery capability that supports continued growth.

JW Lees

Mike Wild

IT Manager