Case Study: Ridgeback Resources achieves near‑instant (days‑to‑minutes) data recovery with Cohesity

Ridgeback Resources Cuts Data Recovery Time from Hours to Minutes with Cohesity

Ridgeback Resources, a Calgary‑based oil and gas producer, needed to modernize its backup and disaster‑recovery strategy as it right‑sized IT. The company’s legacy backup system was complex, required specialist knowledge, and slowed recoveries—putting operational efficiency and data protection at risk.

Ridgeback replaced the old stack with Cohesity (DataPlatform, DataProtect, CloudArchive), adopting automated daily reporting, global search, incremental/log‑based backups and Azure archiving. The PoC was quick to deploy, and recoveries dropped from hours or days to under a minute for snapshot mounts, while incremental backups shrank from TBs to MBs, avoiding tens of thousands in costs and simplifying management across the environment.

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Ken Watt

Senior Infrastructure Specialist