Case Study: Santa Cruz Seaside Company achieves faster, resilient backups and simplified disaster recovery with Cohesity

Hospitality Leader Santa Cruz Seaside Company Eliminated Bumpy Rides from their Backup and Recovery Infrastructure

Santa Cruz Seaside Company is a family-owned operator of the historic Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and several hospitality properties that serve over 3 million visitors a year. Facing the end-of-life of its legacy backup tools and slow nightly backups that took 7–9 hours (often restarting and bleeding into business hours, sometimes disconnecting SQL servers), the IT team needed a modern, enterprise-class data protection and disaster recovery solution with cloud integration and minimal impact on production.

The company deployed Cohesity C2000 appliances with Cohesity DataPlatform and DataProtect, leveraging native Microsoft Azure integration for cloud tiering and long-term retention. This consolidated multiple point solutions into one pane of glass, reduced full backup windows to about three hours, eliminated production impact on SQL, enabled instant VM recovery and near-instant cloning of large datasets, and made fast, non-disruptive disaster recovery testing and rapid restores possible.

Santa Cruz Seaside Company

Brian Critchlow

IT Systems Administrator