Case Study: U.S. Oil & Refining Co. achieves business continuity and rapid disaster recovery with Axcient

U.S. Oil & Refining Trusts Axcient for Data Protection and Business Continuity

U.S. Oil & Refining Co., a Puget Sound leader in motor, aviation and marine fuels and asphalt based in Tacoma, WA, operates a 39,000‑barrel‑per‑day refinery on 139 acres and requires robust IT protection. The company struggled with burdensome tape backups, slow recovery and partial protection from its legacy Symantec Backup Exec setup and could not fail over servers or perform bare‑metal restores, leaving business continuity at risk.

U.S. Oil deployed Axcient to protect 50 servers (including 20 running virtual machines) and 6 TB of data using a local appliance that replicates to Axcient’s SSAE‑16 datacenters. The solution enables fast bare‑metal restores, rapid failover of individual servers or the entire infrastructure, reliable office virtualization and successful test recoveries—reducing tape overhead, eliminating application downtime and allowing the company to plan the complete removal of tape backups.

U.S. Oil & Refining Co.

Aaron Lorton

Systems Administrator