Case Study: Levitt-Safety cuts storage by 68% and gains reliable cloud backup with Barracuda Networks

Safety Company Protects Itself with Barracuda Storage and Security Solutions

Levitt-Safety Limited, an Ontario-based national provider of life, fire and environmental safety products with about 350 employees, was running 70 physical and virtual servers on a tape-based Symantec Backup Exec system managed by a single IT supervisor. Repeated tape failures (more than 35 unreadable tapes with only two recoverable), a difficult interface and the need for reliable offsite/cloud protection left the company exposed and searching for a better solution.

Levitt-Safety deployed Barracuda Backup appliances (490 and 890) plus two Web Filter 410s and a Spam Firewall 300, gaining easy deployment, intuitive management, inline deduplication and Barracuda Cloud replication/offsite vaulting. The change cut storage needs by more than 68%, saved time, money and bandwidth, simplified oversight for the one-person IT team, and provided secure cloud backups, faster recovery options and clear error notifications.

Levitt Safety

Kevin Araujo

IT Supervisor