Case Study: St. Louis Blues achieves rapid data recovery and uninterrupted operations with Axcient

NHL Team Records a Save with Axcient

When Larry Womack joined the St. Louis Blues as IT manager in early 2013 he found an unreliable legacy backup system protecting 12 servers and roughly 9 TB of critical data — including irreplaceable historical photos, financial records and operational files — at a time when the NHL season demanded always-on systems.

Axcient’s on‑site appliance was installed and began protecting servers within a day, completing full backups in two days. Two weeks later the main file server crashed; using Axcient’s failover and virtualization capabilities Womack restored operations within an hour, preserving uptime during the season and preventing any noticeable disruption to staff or games.

St. Louis Blues

Larry Womack

IT Manager