Case Study: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County achieves 80% storage reduction and unified backup of 36 servers with Barracuda Networks' Backup 890

Preserving History with Barracuda Backup

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, home to nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts, needed a reliable, auditable backup solution for its distributed IT environment (30 virtual and 6 physical servers across six sites). Their tape-based EMC Networker system was slow and unreliable, and the museum required cloud replication, reduced storage footprint, and minimal downtime to meet government and operational requirements.

NHM deployed Barracuda Backup 890 as a single, cloud-connected appliance—set up in under two hours—to protect all 36 servers. Source-based global deduplication cut storage needs by about 80% (from 58 TB of local data), Barracuda Cloud replication removed the need for physical offsite tapes, and LiveBoot lets the team bring servers online in under eight minutes, delivering unified backup, faster recovery, and lower ongoing maintenance.

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Egbert Gutierrez

Director of Information Technology