Case Study: Northern California-Based Leading Construction Company achieves reduced total cost of ownership and reliable cloud disaster recovery with Axcient

Construction Company Reduces Total Cost of Ownership by Switching to Axcient

A Northern California construction firm founded in 1938, with a four-person IT team managing nine servers (7 physical, 2 VMware) and 6TB of data, struggled with a manual, tape-based backup process using Symantec Backup Exec. The tape approach was labor-intensive and unreliable—one power-supply failure took two days to recover and resulted in lost data—prompting the IT lead to seek a modern, dependable disaster-recovery solution.

They deployed Axcient Business Recovery Cloud, a hybrid local-and-cloud platform that combines backup, deduplication, archiving and disaster recovery with instant local failover and the ability to virtualize the office in the cloud. The change delivered measurable results: reliable restores that meet RTOs/RPOs, reduced total cost of ownership through simpler web-based management, faster provisioning, and U.S.-based support with rapid response and dedicated onboarding.