Case Study: Real estate firm Hines achieves 40% FTE cost savings and faster, secure cloud recovery with Asigra

Hines Finds Cost-Savings Relief by Upgrading Tape Backup System to CloudBased Enterprise Data Protection Platform

Hines, a global real estate firm with 3,500 employees across 121 cities, faced escalating backup and recovery challenges as it expanded—relying on manual tape-based backups that were costly, slow, vendor-fragmented, and increasingly unreliable for protecting servers, workstations, laptops and mobile devices across more than 100 sites. The centralized data flows to its Austin data center strained a small IT team and drove rising storage and operational expenses, prompting a search for a more economical, scalable and secure solution.

Hines selected RestorePoint’s managed cloud backup service powered by Asigra, deployed as a hybrid, agentless platform with policy-based lifecycle management, tiered storage pricing and AES-256 encryption. The rollout eliminated manual tape handling, consolidated disparate systems, enabled faster, more reliable recoveries and freed IT staff for strategic work—delivering at least a 40% FTE cost savings to date and ongoing improvements in efficiency and data security.

Hines

Jesse Carrillo

Senior Vice President and CIO, Hines