Case Study: Credit Acceptance achieves 18x faster backups and 70% lower TCO with Cohesity

Credit Acceptance Increase Backup Speed by 18x While Reducing TCO by 70%

Credit Acceptance Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed finance company that provides auto loans through a network of 60,000 dealers, runs a large IT environment with three data centers, 1,700+ VMs and some 60 databases. Facing rapid data growth and a seven-year retention requirement, the company’s legacy Veritas/EMC Data Domain backup infrastructure was nearing end‑of‑life and a like‑for‑like refresh was cost‑prohibitive, so they evaluated alternatives that offered inline compression, global dedupe, scale‑out file systems and simple management.

Credit Acceptance consolidated secondary storage on Cohesity (with Pure Storage and VMware in the stack), using its hyperconverged platform for VM backups, RMAN‑integrated Oracle protection, instant recovery and test/dev provisioning. The change cut backup merge times from 18 hours to one hour (18× faster), delivered about 75% CapEx savings versus the alternate refresh and roughly 70% OpEx savings through lower support costs and reduced admin time, and enabled remote DR and planned long‑term archival to cloud.

Credit Acceptance Corporation

Rael Mussell

VP Infrastructure