Case Study: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center achieves thousands in annual savings and instant system failover with Axcient

Non-Profit Biotech Saves Thousands with Axcient Integrated Cloud Solution

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a nonprofit plant-science research institute in St. Louis with more than 150 scientists and over 20 TB of data, faced a fragmented, tape-based backup environment managed by a five-person IT team. Relying on multiple vendors (Symantec/Recall and later CommVault) was costly (about $21,000/year), time-consuming to manage, and left gaps in full system and application protection as well as limits on disaster-recovery testing.

Axcient’s integrated Recovery-as-a-Service hybrid-cloud replaced the separate products and tape/offsite processes, providing local and cloud-based data and application protection, sandbox DR testing, and instant failover. The center saved thousands annually, simplified management so IT could focus on other priorities, achieved fast recoveries with minimal disruption, and gained responsive customer support.

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Tim Belfield

Senior Technical Analyst