Case Study: America’s Test Kitchen achieves seamless Google Apps backup, faster recovery and license cost savings with Backupify

America’s Test Kitchen - Customer Case Study

America’s Test Kitchen, a Boston-based media and recipe publisher that grew to 200+ employees, was struggling with Google Apps management: no cloud backup, frequent off‑boarding headaches, inability to recover data from deactivated accounts, name-change issues that created new users and lost access, and rising costs from inactive licenses. These problems cost IT and managers significant time and risked compliance and continuity.

After evaluating Google Vault and Backupify, IT Director Dustin Brandt deployed Backupify for Google Apps. Backupify enabled full exports, mailbox restores and migrations (including restoring old mailboxes to managers so licenses could be canceled), solved name-change ownership issues, and provided strong eDiscovery search — all with minimal administration. The result: faster recoveries, lower license costs, and measurable time savings for the IT and management teams.

America’s Test Kitchen

Dustin Brandt

Director of IT