Case Study: Moran Environmental Recovery cuts Exchange Online and OneDrive backup costs by 75% and reduces recovery time to hours with AvePoint's DocAve Online

Moran Environmental Cuts Microsoft® Exchange Online® and OneDrive for Business® Backup Costs by 75% with DocAve Online®

Moran Environmental Recovery (MER), a nationwide environmental services firm operating across 39 locations, moved to Office 365 after persistent Citrix-related access problems and rapid organizational growth exposed the need for a scalable, centrally managed IT system. MER found Office 365’s native retention (30 days) insufficient for Exchange Online and OneDrive for Business recovery and needed a cost-effective, flexible backup and point-in-time restore solution as users migrated from file shares to OneDrive.

MER implemented AvePoint’s DocAve Online SaaS on Microsoft Azure to schedule automated incremental backups (nightly, weekly, monthly, plus snapshots) and store backups in the cloud instead of on physical hardware. The solution enabled granular restores beyond Microsoft’s 30-day window, cut backup costs by 75%, reduced recovery time from four days to hours, and provided fast implementation and alerting for failed jobs—giving the IT team reliable, centralized protection and faster recovery.

Moran Environmental Recovery

John Megnia

Director of IT and Business Process