Case Study: American Federation of Musicians Employer's Pension Fund achieves rapid backups, faster recovery and cost savings with Asigra

American Federation of Musicians Employer's Pension Fund - Customer Case Study

The American Federation of Musicians Employers’ Pension Fund (AFM&E) serves over 80,000 subscribers and maintains decades of payroll and pension records—many digitized into a single 2.8 TB master database alongside SharePoint, Exchange and VMware systems. Reliant on slow tape backups and facing unmet RTO/RPO targets, the fund needed a faster, more reliable way to protect and restore large volumes of historical and transactional data.

AFM&E selected Data Storage Corporation’s managed SafeData solutions powered by Asigra Cloud Backup—an agentless, incremental‑forever hybrid cloud approach with local snapshots—to protect servers, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL and virtual environments. The switch cut weekly backup windows from 20 hours to under 1 hour, reduced full-system restores from about 2 days to 2–4 hours, delivered strong compression (≈5.9:1 overall, 6.4:1 for SQL), simplified management, enabled customizable RPO/RTO and reduced backup costs.

American Federation of Musicians Employer's Pension Fund

Guy Sanfilippo

CTO, AFM