Case Study: Lighthouse Resources achieves $400K cost savings and 100x storage reduction with Cohesity

Lighthouse Resources Saves $400K and Gains Ease-of-Management with Cohesity

Lighthouse Resources, a privately held energy supply company operating coal mines and export facilities across four Western U.S. sites, faced rising maintenance costs and slow, complex restores from its legacy Dell EMC Avamar backup. Remote locations with frequent brownouts and a small IT team made management and recovery time-consuming and expensive, so the company sought a cost-effective, scalable data protection solution with single-pane management and cloud archiving.

Lighthouse deployed Cohesity across all sites—using DataPlatform Virtual Edition for remote locations, CloudArchive to Google Cloud, and Helios for centralized management—and replaced Avamar. The move saved $400K upfront, achieved a 100x storage reduction through global deduplication and compression, cut support and troubleshooting time by more than 80%, simplified restores to a few clicks, and enabled fast, reliable DR and cloud-based long-term retention.

Lighthouse Resources

Mike O’Rourke

Director of IT Operations