Case Study: Capital City Bank achieves 80% backup management time savings with Cobalt Iron

Capital City Bank Transforms Backup Eliminating 80% of Management Time

Capital City Bank, a community bank based in Kansas, faced significant challenges with its inefficient and unreliable legacy backup systems. The bank utilized a cumbersome combination of Veritas Backup Exec, Unitrends, and Windows Server backups, which required extensive manual tape handling, was time-consuming for its small IT team, and created a lack of confidence in disaster recovery. Seeking a dependable and manageable solution, the bank turned to vendor Cobalt Iron for a better way to protect its data.

Cobalt Iron implemented its private cloud solution with two Accelerators, providing a single, comprehensive data protection platform. The solution automated backups and replicated data between sites, eliminating the need for physical tapes and their associated costs. This resulted in an 80% reduction in backup management time, a 75% reduction in annual courier costs, and overall savings of 20% compared to replacing the old systems. The IT staff gained confidence with robust reporting and, after a successful four-hour server restore, no longer loses sleep over backups.

Capital City Bank

Travis Cooper

VP and IT Manager