Case Study: Commonwealth War Graves Commission achieves tape-free, faster recovery with Asigra Cloud Backup

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Ends the Headache of Tape Backup with Cloud-Based Data Recovery

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cares for cemeteries and memorials across 23,000 locations and maintains critical digital archives—more than 20 TB of data, including 4 TB of historical casualty records. CWGC’s legacy Symantec tape backup was highly distributed, labour‑intensive and slow to recover (up to 30 days for non‑critical data and 24 hours for critical data), leaving the organisation unable to meet recovery objectives and creating significant operational risk.

CWGC replaced tape with Techgate’s Asigra Cloud Backup deployed to six European sites protecting 80 servers (Windows, Hyper‑V, Exchange, SQL). The agentless, centrally managed solution with Backup Lifecycle Management eliminated manual tape handling, improved backup and recovery speed and reliability, reduced data growth impact, freed IT staff for strategic work, increased uptime and lowered overall costs while meeting UK data‑domicile and compliance requirements.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Will Webster

Head of IT