Case Study: Maurice Blackburn Lawyers achieves searchable, cloud-ready backups and greater ROI with Cohesity

Maurice Blackburn Ends Reliance on Legacy Backup and Recovery and Achieves Greater ROI with Cohesity

Maurice Blackburn, a leading Australian social justice law firm with 33 offices and over 1,100 legal professionals, faced risks and operational pain from a legacy backup strategy that used a third party for near-term storage and tape for long-term archival. The hybrid IT environment, reliance on slow tape restores, and an inability to quickly search or purge backups for PII created compliance and recovery challenges and put pressure on IT resources.

The firm deployed Cohesity (with Cirrus Networks and integration with Pure Storage) to bring backup and data management in‑house, running monthly full and daily incremental backups that are deduplicated and archived to Azure. Cohesity’s indexing made backups searchable and purgeable for compliance, cut archival costs through deduplication, and delivered rapid restores (minutes for a deleted file, 15 minutes for a failed SQL VM), while enabling easier cloud migrations and faster dev/test provisioning.

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers

Adam Williams

IT Manager