Case Study: City of Williamsburg achieves rapid failover and secure offsite data protection with Axcient

City of Williamsburg Improves IT Resiliency with Axcient Cloud

The City of Williamsburg, a historic Virginia municipality, needed to modernize IT resiliency after relying on Symantec Backup Exec and a nearby SAN for offsite copies. IT Director Mark Barham wanted secure, truly offsite protection with fast recovery times; attempts to use AWS proved unwieldy, prompting a search for a simpler cloud-based solution.

Williamsburg implemented Axcient Recovery-as-a-Service to protect 19 VMware servers and 10 TB of data, switching from Backup Exec overnight. The combined local appliance and cloud service provides seamless failover in minutes, the ability to run the entire environment in the cloud, an intuitive interface, and clear time and cost savings from faster recovery and easier management.

City of Williamsburg

Mark Barham

Information Technology Director