Case Study: Goodwill Industries of South Florida achieves hurricane-ready, fast and reliable cloud data recovery with Asigra Cloud Backup

Goodwill South Florida Defends Data Against the Future Threat of Hurricanes with Cloud-Based Data Recovery

Goodwill Industries of South Florida, a nonprofit with 30 locations and roughly 300 connected devices, was relying on an increasingly fragile tape-based backup system and faced a critical risk from hurricanes and regulatory audits. After a catastrophic tape failure and concern that offsite tapes could be affected by regional storms, the organization needed a more reliable, secure and auditable way to protect mission‑critical systems including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Dynamics GP.

Goodwill moved to a hybrid cloud backup from Yotta280 powered by Asigra, with encrypted, agentless backups stored in a Jacksonville data center and replicated to Birmingham plus staged local servers for fast restores. The new solution protects more than 9TB of data, eliminated tape management, delivered much faster recoveries (minutes to 10–12 hours vs. 30+ hours on tape), supported 4–5 real recoveries in a year, reduced admin overhead and ensured multi‑site recovery capability for hurricane resilience and audit compliance.

Goodwill Industries of South Florida

Samuel Robinson

IT Manager