Case Study: Planes Companies achieves sub-30-minute recovery and replaces tape with Asigra cloud backup

Planes Companies Replaces Tape with Cloud-Based Solution for Improved Performance and Speedier Recovery

Planes Companies, a relocation and logistics provider with offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis and Chicago, was struggling with a tape‑based backup system that was time‑consuming, prone to hardware failures and unable to keep pace with data growth. Tape recoveries regularly took 4–5 hours, management overhead was high, and the company needed faster, more reliable local and offsite recovery to protect operations and meet disaster‑recovery requirements.

Planes replaced tape with Yotta280’s cloud backup service powered by Asigra in a hybrid, agentless deployment that protected physical and virtual servers with deduplication and offsite replication. The change cut recovery times from hours to under 30 minutes, reduced backup management complexity, delivered stronger disaster resilience and long‑term storage cost savings, and produced a faster-than-expected ROI.

Planes Companies

Jeff McGrath

Vice President, Information Services